and strongly confduplicate upon their ventral side; infrutes- 
cence red, the berries turning derk wine color, usvnally from 
the lower leaf axils; pedunele variable in length, ascending, 
terminated by the radiating primary pe@uncles which in the 
eerlier stages are aubtended by small Jeeves; leaves deciduous, 
leéving large sesra; in open shallow ravines end gulehes near — 
the barrio of ; “fabtebeeho,." Baguio, March, 1907, 
6817,  <Arvrdisia @imeri Mex, Shrub 6 to 6 meters high, 
sparingly branched, along streams of deep moist ravines; ber- 
ries purplish bleek when meture; leaves coriaceous, darker 
greon sbove, enocth on both sides; wood soft; bark brown ani 
amooth; Baguio, “arch, 1907. 
8818 Alecasia macorrhiza (Linn,) Schott. Herbaceous, 
$ meters high with six ineh thick stens covered with thin 
brown berk; Leeves erect or ascending, the stelk twice as Long 
ae the gubcoriaceous blede; the petiole green and mottled, 
deeply Fluted on its weper side end @xtending from the base 
helt wey up to the blade; fruiting steike 2 feet long, usually 
three from each leaf axil, subterete; the thiek green sheath 
yellowish when Sully mature, splitting from the apex nearly 
to the base, “puff ball" colored on the immer surface; pistile 
lete cone or receptecle “orenge yellow" when 014 4% are alse 
the soft irrervlerly shaped seeda; stem tissue sort, white md 
spongy; in ecoft ground slong streams of deeply shaded ravines 
beyond Tepside; “Abeaba," fhe roots ere sometimes used to heal 
or sooth eute or bruises. Baguio, March, 1907. 
6819. ‘ieliosma. “lender tree, 8 meters high, ascend- 
ingly end sper ingly branched toward the epex; wood ea®ily break- . 
ing, with a thick pith; leaves eoriacecusa, clustered toward the 
ends of the thick branches, aseending; the leaflets usuelly ree 
curved and strongly cenduplicate upon the surface, shining 
derk green sbove, duller an¢ paier ereen beneath; panicu- 
late infloreseence torminal (elthough the lewer branches arise 
from the axils of the upper leaves, light creamy white end 
faintly fregrent, 2 to 3 feet eeress; beyond Topside; “Kalane 
tes! its wood is used to make pig and chicken troughs (flat 
tub Like dishes), Baguio, Benguet, Merah, 1907. 
BB2RO. Yyphe ancustifolia Linn. Th Open seepare ground 
near ; only smell mosses were observed, about 5 feet 
high; "Dosilese." Beguio, Marsh, 1907, 
SEE1 6 Tew ahrubs on stream 
banks of deep ravines beyond Topside; lenves subscorisceous, 
shining green above, much paler beneath; atems green; in- 
frutescence clustered in axillary loaves verries purple 
except the green persistent calyx rim; rare; 

