6553, Pragrea obovata Yall, Spreading 3 meter, high shrubs 
with mattled bark and rather hard wood; branches, few, stiff, smooth 
and yellowish gray; leaves very thick, paler beneath, easily sepa- 
rating; fruits erect, usually terminal and one ** to 3- clustered) 
bluish green when immature; on limestone cliffs of the pine region 
at 8,000 feet. Baguio, March, 1907, 
8554, Symplocos angularis “lm., n. sp. .Tree’like, 7 me- 
tere high, ®mongst other hardwoods of limestone zinks of the pine 
region at 5,000 feet; bark brown rather smooth; branches widely | 
spreading from below the middle, easily breaking, ultimate ones. 
numerous; leaves ascending, thin; flowers dull white; "Pile." 
baguio, Mareh, 1907, 
8655, Ficus fastegiats Sim, Brect numerously and faste- 
giately brariched mx from the middle; wood hard and tough; bark 
smoothish, mottled with brown snd light gray; leaves dry and 
quite rigid, ascending, the tips strongly recurved, the ventral- 
ly side curvingly conduplicate; figs soft when mature, dark brown, 
pendulous; near tall limestone cliffs st 6,000 feet; often as 
high a8 6 meters; "Obdas." saghio, ilarch, 1907. 
8556, Quercus celebicsa ig. Tall spreading trees 10 me- 
ters high and with 1 1/2 foot in diameter bole; ultimate twigs 
numerous; leaves quite rigid, descending, ashy green when compar- 
ed with other hardwood foliage in limestone zinks of the pine 
region at 5,000 feet; bark hard, smoothish, grayish white; wood 
exceedingly hard; while chopping down some limbs my Igorrote 
exclaived- "“lioo!l Mucho Mala Bolo! This is the umw only time his 
steel bolo proved too hard metal for the wood; "Tigdog.* 
baguio, Benguet, March, 1907, 
557... Canarium lucidum Perk. Small tree or shrub like 
7 meters high near a tall limestone cliff at 5,000 feet in the 
pine region; branehes crooked, with whitish smooth bark; leaves 
smooth, yellowish green beneath, tips recurved, shallowly condu- 
plicate; inflorescence ascending; flowers yellowish green; "Ki- 
hu," baguio, benguet, vareh, 1907, 
rp 
6558, Macaranja loheri Hlm,, n, sp. Trees 6 meters 
high and branched from the middie; wood white, soft; bark mek 
mottled; or grayish white and smooth; branches ascending, the 
ultimate ones slender; lesvesimtx dull green ventrally condu- 
plicate, with reddish petioles; inflorescence also reddish ex- 
cept the yellowish green flowers; in limestone bagbns of the 
pine région at. 5,000 feet; "Anitab.” Baguio, March, 1907. 
6559,  Dischidia merrill Schltr, Seandent or mare par- 
ticularly hanging from dead limbs; stems very slender, leaves 
pale green, thick and rigid; flowers erect purplish blue; in 
‘Limestone thickets at 5,000 feet of the pine region; leaf ed- 
ges recurved; baguio, March, 1907, 

