sparingly branched fruits smooth, hard, green, perfectly glo- 
bose, srranged umbellately; in wooded ravines not distant from 
sablan; "banal." Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907, 
8862, Cureuligo recurvata Dry. Small tufts in rich 
fertile soil of wooded ravines near Sablan; leaves gracefully 
recurved, plicate, velvety green on the upper surface, paler 
beneath, from 1 foot to over a meter long, from 1 inch to 1 
foot in width; inflorescence upon a 10 inch fuzzy brown and 
flattened peduncle, capitate; flowers erect, arrenged in close- 
ly set circles, yellow; persistent bracts green; corolla also 
persistent, withering to a dull brown; infrutescence half nod- 
ding, the individual fruits becoming scattered and yellowish; 
The leaves are frequently used by the Igorotes as cupea for 
drinking water; the two ends sare stoved in and held in the 
beat shaped receptscle; "Token," the leaves are used ae a cup. 
Baguio, March, 1907, 
8863, Schismatoglottis rupestris Z2oll. and Mor. | 
Herbs with 2 to 5 smooth leathery leaves; stems mostly serial 
or reclining, 1 to\inches thick; fleshy roots soft sparingly 
branched; lower part or sometimes the entire petiole dull red- 
dish brown; inflorescence upon = 6 inch long reddish succulent 
stalk; succulent sheath smooth; the upper half of the spike 
(3/4 inch) steaminate, with » strong ginger odor; in fertile 
soil of wooded ravines; Sablan; “lubnag"; the Igorote%s, string 
a part of the stem upon their neck strings or "Uno" as they 
Gall it, it is one of the natural objects they believe will 
keep them sef\ from the “witch” lgorotes (either men or women) 
. Suppose to sondtros the northern tribes, Baguio, kenguet, 
-hareh, 1907. ' 
Ca 4w 
8864, Cyrtandra grossedeytata Hlm., nm. sp. Low lax 
shrubs only 2 to 3 feet high, with crookedly branched twigs; 
leaves submembranous, spreading flat or often recurved tips, 
green and smooth on upper surface but especially dark green 
along the veins; wood bresking with a snap; bark smooth, yel- 
lowish gray; folisge yellowish or pale green beneath; fruits 
pendulous, terete, ususlly recurved, more tapering toward the 
apex; near streoeme of dark ravines; Sablan, Baguio, iiarch, 
1907. ; 
8866, Piper aurilimbum C0; DC,, mxx nn. sp. A climbe 
ing suffrutescent plant with green stems; leaves very flexible, 
half suceculent,.whitish green beneath; inflorescence erect, 
quite rigid, the epikes erect, straight and nearly perfectly 
cylindric; pale white but soon turning dark green; not common 
im@a in damp gulches near Sablan; Dawusha-atab," Baguio,: 
March, 1907. 
8867, Ardisia sealaris ‘ez, Low shrubs, sparingly 
branched; wood easily breaking, covered with lenticeled brown 
bark; leaves coriaceous, dull and dark; xem green sbove, glau- 
cescent green beneath; fruits hanging from the stems, nearly 
the size and shape of cherries, snd with the x lustrous red 
color, fleshy; rare in wooded ravines near streams at Sablan; 
baguio, March, 1907, 

