er rather ascending; leaves as well as the younger twigs in 
gubwhorls, ascending, lucid green sbove, membranous; peduncles 
erect or ascending; flowers dull white, fragrant; in limestone 
ginke of the pine region west of Baguio; Baguio, Benguet, — 
March, 1907, 
8570, CGlaoxylon purpureum err. Slender and Laxly 
branched shrubs 1 meter high; stems slender and recurved; leaves 
ae dark green; staminate inflorescence ascending, yellowish 
white; bark smooth, grayish green; wood soft; in fertile soil 
of moist limestone sinks west of Baguio; Baguio, Benguet, 
March, 1907, 
S571. Cyrtandra cumingiana Clarke, Shrubs 3 meters,/ 
high, ascendingly branched above the middle; bark yellowish, 
finely checked; branches crooked, uniformly thick, single, bear- 
ing a crown of leaves at the apex; leaves very flexible, flat, 
recurved, succulent, gellowish pale beneath, green above; in- 
fruteescence axillary; in rich soil of damp limestone sinks 
west of Baguio; Tabtabacho, baguio, Magn, 1907. 
8572, Smilax bracteata Presl. Stema very slender and 
branched climbing jungles of shrubs and small trees, prickly, 
the older ones smoothiah and brown bark; wood tough; leaves 
dark green above, smooth on both sides, thin; peduncles and pe- 
diicele reddish; flowers greenish white, fragrant; “sanal” used 
in tirping fencing, Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
8675. Aspidhum coadunatum “all, On damp densely shad- 
ed limestone cliffs of the pine region 5,000 feet; base of o1¢4 
stipes persistent; fronds soft and very thin; recurved; quite 
common but only locally met; rootstocks rather short, only # 
few inches long, suberect, bearing at its young tip 1 to 3 
fronds; Baguio, March, 1907. 
Ny 
8574, Viele rupicala Glm,., W. Sp. On damp moes cover- 
ed rock ledges 2 miles west of baguio; plants mostly single; 
Baguio, wareh, 1907, ; 
ev) 
“8678, Toddglia aculeata Pers. A ecandent and sprawling 
shrub; old stems a8 well as the young ones set with retrose t= 
spines; old bark thin, grayish brown, that on the branches shin- 
ing green; lesves very flexible, lucid on both sides, dark green 
above, yellowish beneath; half leathery; flowers yellowish; in 
dense jungles at 7,800 feet of Sante Tomas; fruit yellow, ary; 
*Guiot,” Baguio, Benguet, liarch, 1907, 
8576, Peperomia reflexa subsessilifolia C, DC,  Succu- 
lent herbs forming loose tufts upon moss covered trees and shrubs; 
older leaves yellowish green; spike strictly erect, yellowish; 
stamens purplish; in dense woods at 7,000 feet or higher of San- 
to Tomas; "Vapapa," Baguio, iiarch, 1907, 
8577. Ficus fastigiata Him, Small erect trees 3 meters 
high, numerously branched above the middle; wood quite hard; 
bark gray and brown mottled, young bark smoother and brown; leaves 

