6886. Surys acuminate Wall. A @lender sparingly 
branched tree 8 meters high; branches crooked, quite rigid, 
mostly at the top; bark brown; wood rather hard; branchiets 
tough; leaf tips only slightly recurved, dark green but a 
trifle lighter beneath, shining above, rigid; fruits dark 
blue; “Salasbas,. ” Dumaguete, June, 1908, 
8809. liedyotie benguetensis fim, Lax shrubs 2 to 3 
meters high, numereously branched and forming bushes; wood soft 
and easily snapping; old bark yellowish, smooth, that on the 
twigs brown; leaves very smooth, membranous, paler green bee 
neath; inflorescence stalk purplish brown; flowers white but 
frequently with a faint purple in the segments; in mossy 
woode of Santo Tomas at 7,750 feet; Baguio, March, 1907, 
8810. Burya myrtilloides film. Slender erect trees 
of the mossy oak woods of Santo Tomas at 7,750 feet; trunk 
6 inches in diameter, its branches rather short and mostly 
at the top; wood white, not hard; bark smoothish brown; 
bark of twigs green; leaves spreading in distichousa rows, 
their tipe only slightly recurved very dark green and shine 
ing above, pale duller green beneath; flowers white; 
Baguio, Mareh, 1907. 
boos . 
8611. Vibes um propincuum demsi,, Shrubs with smooth- 
ish brown bark; about 3 meters high on dry cliffs north of 
Santo Tomas at 7,750 feet; leaves coriaceous, shining and dare 
kgx er green above; petioles and sometimes the peduncles of the 
inflorescence reddish; flowers cream color, Baguio, March, 
1907, 
8812, Centratherum fruticosum Vid. Sushy shrubs 1 
meter high on dry stony slopes beyond L@ Trinidad at 4,uu0uU 
feet; algo noticed esr the summit of Sante Lomas; wood rather 
tough but not hard; bark smooth brown; flowers erect blue; 
quite common; "Umum.". Saguio, Henguet, March, 1907. 
8813. (jiot issued) Rigid, erect, the upper portion 
of the frond recurved; pinnae ascending coriaceous; slender 
rootstocks herizontal, spreading; in open turfs along stream- 
lets beyond La Trinidad at 4,000 feet; common at butdi; "Apat." 
Baguio, Harch, 1907. 
S614, Androssace saxifragifglia vunge, Foliage stems 
and rotately spreading calyx soft and yellowish green; flowers 
white also spreading when in full bloom, the base of the pee 
tale (4 or mostly 5) united and yellow; flowers erect; fruits 
globose deflexed beneath the spreading persistent calyx (as 
in typical californian species) on moss covered ledges beyond 
La Trinidad at 4,500 feet; baguio, benguet, March, 1907. 
881¢, Discocalyx montana Hlm.,, n. sp. Srect single 
or sparingly branched 3 meter high shrubs in copses of lime- 
stones; soft wood with a large brown pith; bark grayish white 

