&654, ilex gracilipes serr, Lax shrubs on creek 
banks of the pines at 5,000 feat; wood white, not hard; 
bark smooth, mettled, whitish; leeves lucid on both sides, 
subcoriaceous, conduplicate upon the ventral side, tips 
recurved; flowers ascending white; green ovary/ wa (yellowe 
ish stigma; "“Balesbas,* Baguio, Harch, 1907 QV 
8655, Vibernum Luzonicum Rolfe, Lax suberect 
shrubs 4 meters high or often quite stunted in ravines 
along creeks of the pine region; leaves soft, flat and a 
spresding; flowers or rather the inflorese@ nee arect, 
the individual flowers light ereany white with a ereet 
faint odor; “salasbag,” Baguio, Denguet,Mareh, 1907, 
6657, Bothriospermim tevellum Fisch, & Meg. 
Herbs in abandoned Ilgorote camote (aweet potatoe) field, 
flowers erect, blue but when old whitish; nutlets 4,dark 
brown or nearly black; 6,000 feet; not common; Hagulo, 
Senguet, March, 1907. 
8668, byekeelun rubrum serr, humerously branch- 
ed shrubs, with soft easily breaking wood; bark brown, 
deasely beset and made very rough by lighter brown circu. 
iay or more or less flattened lenticels; leaves dark 
green, very smooth on both sides, subcoriaceous, concave 
on the dorsal side; fruite ascending, rusty and scaly 
brown; on eteep damp slope of creek in pine region at 
5,000 feet; - Baguio, Mareh, 1907, 
B659, Sticta caperata javanios byl, Rather thin 
and dry half leathery epecies covering tree trunks; upper 
surface green but with nge soon turning gray, and finally 
brown; Davujak, Baguio, March, 1907, 
rad 
6601, Leucobryum scalare €. M. Light or olive 
green on much decayed loge Lying in seepage ground; fo- 
diage dry, soft; Fgrming spreading clumpa; *Davruy.” 
baguio, “arch, 1907, 
8662. Pliopogon Biumdii (Dz. et Mk.) Broth, on 
large bowlders, forming rather densely spreading mats; 
foliage soft half shining light green; in creek beds of 
the pine region at 6,000 feet; Lavuy,. Seguio, March, 
L9O7. 
8663, Vaccinium benguetense Vid. Rigid shrubs 
& meters high, branched and bushy from the base which 
is.¢ inches in diameter; wood not hard, that of the twigs 
easily snapping; bark of the vranches very smooth and 
reddish brown, that of the older branches and stems ashy 
gray; leaf petiokes and stal&s of infrutescence reddish; 
foliage much descending, very lucid green on the upper: 
surface, dull yellowish green beneath, ventrally much 
curved, with tips much recurved; coriaceous; on hot bear 
hills near the barrio of Sacofig; flowers pendulous, cream 
color; "Dosofig,* Saguio, Benguet, March, 1907, 
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