brown as is often the upper and lower thickened portion of - 
the petiole proper; capsules not rigid, green, hanging upon 
slender 2 to 4 feet long branches; "Kasi"- parts of the 
large roots sre cooked for food, Baguio, Wareh, 1907. 
8693, Schefflera blancoi “err, Shrubs or small 
trees, branched from the base; soft wood with a large white 
pith; young bark yellowish, older gray and white mottled; 
ultimate bran&®es few, ascending, 2 to 3 inches thick; leaves 
e@ algo, ascending, radially spreading; larger leaf petioles 
eer 2 feet long, seurfy brown, with a single axillary bract 
which ig 2 ineh long, sharply pointed thick and tightly 
cleaving to the stem; leaflets including the petioles often 
15 inehes long, conduplicate on upper side, margins wavy, 
yellowish scuffy beneath; Anflorescence ascending upon, 
lesfleas branchlets, its spikes numerous, the whole inflo- 
rescence 2 to 3 feet high and the sfie in diameter, stalks 
ag well as the floral caps (7) dull pink; anthers also 
pink; Jeade of fruits dark red or dull purple with yellow- 
ish me@ats. bees were found swarming about the flowers, and 
after the only branch of flowering specimens was cut off 
the little busy bees soon found the flowers down in the 
river bed; the wood bark, inflorescence and fruit have a 
strong “carrot” odor; "“Abeal". the leaves are pounded in 
email pieces ard thrown in the streams for poisoning fish. 
It is sour. Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
Vor 8694. Gunnero macrophylla £1m, Decumbent succulent 
surubs with reclining stems 2 to 3 inches thick and green; 
falling lesvea leaving thick ridged scars; leaves very une- 
qual in size, dull green, submembranous, ite stalk usually 
reddish; inflorescence subterminal and axillary, i foot 
long, greenish yellow, below the foliace: plants 1 foot to 
1 meter high, in seepage ground of deeply shaded ledges 4- 
long creeks; snthers reddish, soon brown; “Dedit.” 
Baguio, March, 1907. 
8695, Symplocos ferruginea, Spreading shrubs, we. 
VWpom creek banks of the pine region; wood of twigs breaking 
with a enap; their bark very smooth and reddish brown; fruits 
pale white or greenish; coriaceous leaves curvingly spread- 
ing, dull green, slightly paler green beneath; "Pile," 
Baguio, March, 1907, 
8696," Viburnum odgratum Ker, Brect and spreading 4 
meter high shrub; branches quite numerous; wood not hard 
rather brittle; gray bark finely checked and covered with 
lenticels; inflorescence secending, the individual flowers 
white; along streams of open grass lands in the pines; 
"“idog." Baguio, March, 1907. 

