$585, 
Lax spreading shrub 4 meters high: wood soft, rather clear white: 
bark smooth, brown on the branches, very strong and peeling readi- 
ly from the wood; mature fruit red; in oak woods at 7,000 feet 
of Mount Santo Tomas; 
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8586, Ardisia marginata Glm, Treelike, S$ meters high; 
wood soft, easily splitting; bark yellowish brown; branches rather 
short and rigid, divaricate and radially arranged along the upper 
portion of the stem; leaves somewhat stiff; fruits subpendulous; 
hear cliffe of Santo Tomas at 7,750 feet; “Dajow." Baguio, 
Mareh, 1907, 
6587. Carex filicina, Densely tufted an shaded rocky 
“slopes of the moss region; lightly rooted into the ground; lesves 
@@ all very rich in green, the entire tufte recurvingly sloping 
downward; old panicles chaffy brow ; | achenes auall, green; common 
but only locally found; in oak woods near the summit of Santo 
aeeee at 7,750 feet; common; “Taan, " Baguio, Benguet, “arch, 
Vite 
eseaq Rhododendron rosmarinifolium Vida. Quite rigid 
shrubs, erect and numerously fastigiately branched; wood quite 
hard and gm closely grained; bark aftay, thinly checked; lesves 
smooth, ascending, yellowish green beneath: flowers deciduous, 
pendulous, blood+red; capsules recurved; stunted forms on gra- 
vely landslides near summit of Santo Tomas; rigid shrubs 3 me- 
tere high at the summit; | baguio, senguet, March, 1907, 
vt 
8589, Gautfiheria cumingiena Tid, Low spreading shrubs, 
rarely erect, in ro crevicea of rock slides near the sumnit of 
siount Santo Tomas at 7,750 feet or above this; leaves stiff, pa- 
ler beneath; berries pendulous, red to dark brown on cliffs 
and land slides on mat north slope of Santo Tomas, at %,'750 feet; 
Saguio, cenguet, March, 1907, 
669). Diavella ensifolia Red, MSivy herbs in rocky ground 
of damp land slides or in seepage #011; flowers ascending, light 
wash blue; stamens and filament knob yellow; fruit greenish yel- 
iow, with yellowish sticky juice; frow 1 foot to 1 meter high, 
branched# forming clumps, with basal portion of stems reclining; 
leaves thick, yellowish green; at 7,000 feet on Santo Tomas; 
“Nrajah.," . Saguio, Karch, 1907, 
8591. Viburnum propinguum lemal, Shrubs 3 meters high, 
branches widely spreading; wood white: bark smooth, gray, that 
on the lax twigs brown; leaves paler beneath, subeorisceous; flow- 
RE ers erect, greenigh yellow; on landslide of Santo Tomas at 
7,756 feet; Saguio, March, 1907. 

