5 ater sheped perte; on demp mountain sides above 
Sablen along the trail; s conium thick, hard, green ond covered 
with minute wh'tich lenticels; sap pale white, sticky; 
"Dewiu."  SBaeguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
BE594 tnalenthus teshirol Mate. Lax 1 meter high 
ehrubs, usteliy many stemmed; wood brittle; bark brown, 
smoothiah; leaves membranous, shining dark green above, 
duller end paler beneath; bude and flowers white or light 
ereem color; @long stresmlets of revines st sablen; drupes 
somewhat ohovold, wesh blue, watery, only slightly fetid, 
with 5 pyrenes Baguie, Benguet, Mexch, 1907. . 
72 e880, Rugenia longissina Merr, Shrubs 3 meters high, 
its sleider spreading branches supported by ether shrubs 
end usueliy overhancing streamlets; wood easily breaking; 
bark snooth, yellowish; Tlowers pendwilous from the wigs 
or from the apex of the twire; thiek petele much reflexed 
am curved, of the seme light aresm color as are thet filaments 
eng antners, pistil greenish yellow; slender peduncle 2 to 6. 
inches long; flowers sometimes 3 inches seross; leaves 
divaricate ond in @istichous rows, coriaceous, dll green above, | 
yellowish green beneath; flat; Baguio, Benguet, Mamch, 1907, | 
G84l. Ervantheman curtetum Clarke. A ¢rooked low suf} 
tieescent plant, useelly inheabifing the wet banks near 
senilets #t Sablen; leeres subcorinceous end somewhet 
stecuient; @ull green, poler benerth, flat and esceniing; 
bude and flowers entirely light eream color, much ascending, 
eatucous ater enthesia; enthers brown; styles persistent; 
"own." Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
6842, Aréieie setleris Mex, Low shrubs, ahount 2 te 
2 meters hifh; wood easily breaking; green fruits finely 
spotted, when mature deep crimson and fleshy, subpendulous, 
the entire infrutestence 1 to 2 inches long end terminel; 
leaves corieceous, flet, much paler beneath; bark brown, 
often roughened with len‘iscels; eloeng atreams &@4 Sablan, 
Baguio, Merch, 1907. 
6644, Piper ceninum latibractenm C, DG. Na Var. 
ssandent upon shrubs end forming more or Jess tangle? bushes; 
stems soft, sreenish, tough, the size of the smpll Tinger; 
leaves submembranocus, filet, Gull but darker green shove; 
infruteseence exilliary, splente, hard ani turning to @ reddish 
brown when collected, 2 to 4 inches long, the spikes usuall 
eurved end opposite Bhe leef; on streams et Sablen; "Detid." 
Baguio, March, 1907. 
G045. Fieus eonfner Bim. fail, seendent and nume- 
rously branched alengs the stem and lerger branches of large 
trees; bark grayish white, emeoth; figs mostly in the 
axils of fallen leaves, nearly 1/2 ineh in diameter, salmon 
Golor when mature; lesves nearly dark green on both sides, 
submembranous; orenchlets lax and drooping; in damp ravine 
at Seblean; “Baletes," Baguio, Merch, 1907. 
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