&868, Securidaca corymbosa Turez.  (Scandent and sprawl. 
ing over tops of trees and shrubbery; stemsand branches smooth; 
greenish bark on the younger branches, brown on the older ones; 
wood tough and hard to cut; paniculate inflorescence terminal 
and subterminal, the flowers pink to purplish, the pedicels of 
the same color; leaves coriaceous, dark green above, yellowish 
green beneath; nighow.* ranches used 428 wire ume or rope. 
Baguio, March, 1907. 
.- 8869, Unearia hookeri Vid. Seandent by loops and sprawl. 
ing over thickets; old bark smooth and brown; yourger bark green 
and covered with ferruginous hairs; leaves soft# hanging, light- 
er green beneath, the nerves beneath yellowish white; young 
hooke greén but soon becoming ricid and brown, but entirely abe 
gent on the old stems; "2 pe inggwit. " Baguio, ienguet, March, 
1907, "ye “We 
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8870, Zlaeocarpue elmeri Avg, DC., mn. sp. Erect trees, 
with an 6 inch bole; limbs divaricate or ascending above the 
middle, numerous; wood yellowish white, rather close grained; 
old bark ‘thick, yellow on the interior, arsay on the exterior, 
covered with large rough lenticels; young tark brown; inflores- 
cence ascending, flowers descending; leaves membranous with 
yellowish petioles; Eaguio, March, 1907, ; 
8871. Smbelia philippinensis A, XX, Climbing by loops . oD 
mn... 
ang sprawling over dense jungles; stems tough, brown and roughen 
g@@ with lighter brown elongated lenticels; lesfy branches compa- 
ratively short, green; foliage leathery, dull green but iighter 
. beneath; inufrutescence terminal, paniculate; fruits wine color 
and taste; called by the igorotes "Besodak", end who eat the 
lesves 29 well as the berries; rough! The foliage is used in 
cooking with meat and which gives it 3% vinegar flavor; Da« 
guio, Benguet, liarch, 1907. 
8872. Canangium odoratum Saill, Tall erect trees with 
atreaight 1 foot thick stems, sbout 20 meters high; wood white 
goft and splendid for carving; bark of the trunk smooth, grayin 
white more ot less mottled; branches usually divarieste and ; 
Clustered at the top, branchlets green and half drooping; leavl< 
we userly flat, rather thin, elightly paler beneath; infrutes- 
Gence comprising the entire uppermost branches, in umbellate 
heads; fruits soft when mature, dull blue or nearly bleck, 1/2 
inch long, the green glutinous flesh with 1/2 dozen brown 
-hard flattened seed; "Danipo in Iigorote; Baguio, Lenguet, 
Mareh, 1907. : 
ilang Liang * in deep ravine of virgin forests, 
6873, Loranthus philippinensis Cham, A bushy rigidly 
branched parssitic shrub upon limbs of Ficus; flowers elongate 
dark brown on the interior; fruits clavate, strongly recurved 
upon its pedicel and usually erect; leaves leathery, condupli- 
cate, farinose especially when young; wood brittle, quite ri- 
gid; bark brown, with many fine lenticels; Igorote "Taca"; 
baguio, Senguet, March, 1907. 
8874, Unesria philipinensis “1m, Climbing by loops 
and its ultimate branches very slender and sprawling over 
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