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8719. Solanum retrofsum Slm., n. Sp. One meter 
high rather finely branched shrubs inhabiting the dry hot 
exposed limestones; petals 5, greenish, reflexed; short 
filaments of the asme color; the 5 oblong anthers of a rich 
yellow; ovary and slender style mesely white,terminated 
by 2 minute greenish stigma; berries of # shining vermillion 
red, globose; lesves soft, descending, parler green beneath; 
"Sabit." Baguio, March, 1907, 
8720, Caesalpinia benguetensis Slm., n. sp. +4 Lime- 
stone inhabited shrub, ueually sprawling in habit; wood wi- 
ry; bark brown, beset with short recurved spines; lesves 
glaucous green beneath, chiefly folded ventrally, slightly 
succulent; inflorescence erect; pedicels ascending; flowers 
subpendulous, light yellow except the spotted upper corolla 
segment and the terminal expésed portions ofythe etyle fila. 
ments and anthers which are of a deep red; pots descending, 
heard, not very thick, usuelly curved more to one side while 
the other side has a bend; Baguio, March, 1907, 
6721. Medinille amplifolis Merr. Much branched shrubs 
upon or overhanging limestones; wood brittle; old bark cosarse- 
ly checked, younger one smooth and yellowish gray; stems and 
larger branches angled; foliage coriaceous, strongiy econdupli- 
cate, shining. green above, yellowish green beneath; paniculate 
inflorescence subpendulous, terminal, red 1/2 to 1 foot long 
end nearly as wide acroes the base; bract smell, similerly 
colored; "“Pagiran" - its hard wood made into wa@dges and maules. 
"Balafipansabosol, * Baguio, Kenguet, March, 1907. 
Oy 
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8722, Salacia prinoides DC, Subseandent and rather 
numerously branched shrubs with wiry wood and smooth brown 
park; Leaves dark green on both sides, strongly conduplic ate 
ventrally; corolla greenish yellow; rotately spreading; ~ 
ovary dark green; filaments lighter green; small anthers yel- 
low; "Ope." Baguio, Benguet, arch, 1907. 
8725. Rhaphidophors perkinsiae sng. Sune Subse an- 
dent and sprawling plant, with 1 inch thick smooth green 
etems and branches, always found on limestone cliffs and 
ottcroppings of dry exposed places; lesves dark dull green 
above, paler beneath, usually curved ventrally, much vary- 
ing in size; terminal inflorescence upon 6 inch staike, 6 
inches long, erect, surrounded by a thick banana yellow co- 
lored sheath which is paler yellow on the interhbor and comes 
to an abrupt 1 inch long pAint, ovaries pale yellow; stig- 
mag greenish; anthers pallescent; “adulunang, * Laguio, 
hareh, 190 q e 
8724, Ficus benjamina Linn, Shrub like tree, with 
numerous laxly branched twigs which gracefully descend; 
bark smooth, gray the younger yellowish; coriaceous leaveL 
@e shining, deep green »%bove, yellowish green beneath; 
figs hard, yellowish, subereet, mostly solitary in the 

