8682. Rives citeres Bilm., mn. sp. One of the scandent 
shrubs composing dense mats on top of trees and other tall 
shrubs; stems flzaible like ropes, smooth, green or yellowish. 
when old; leaves soft, rather membranous; infrutescence upon 
2 to 3 feet long erect branches, the peduncles 1 to 5 inches 
long; fruits pendulous or subpendulous; smooth and purplish 
red; "Qnahal"- in woods at Sablan, Baguio, March, 1907. 
8883. Heapotis congesta R, Br. Suffrutescent green 
and angled stems but woody at base; leaves subcoriaceous, paler 
green beneath ; Baguio, March, 1907, 
8884, LeKihocarpus ovatifolius A, BC, On of the scan- 
aént shrubs comprising denee jungles upon small tree tops; 
wood flexible and tough to cut, covered with dark brown bark 
which again is covered with lighter brown lenticels; leathery 
leaves shining, dark green above, yellowish green benesth; 
seeexe rigid, rusty brown, bifurcate; "ieMig." Baguio, larch, 
8865, Helicia philippinensis Meissh. Spresding trees 
5 meters high, with medium hard wood and smooth mottled bark; 
leaves. subcoriaceous, radislly spreading, dull, much darker , 
green above; fruits terminal or usually from leaf axils, obg- 
void shining green and hard; in dry humus covered ground of 
steep wooded hillsides; peduncles 8 inches long, baguio, 
March ry 1907 ° 
8886, Piper caninum 51, Lax and sparingly branched. 
Climbing shrub usually upon small trees and shrubs, never 
climbing higher then 3 meters; in dense woods of steep hill- 
sides; stems and branches tough, dark green, the thickness 
of a goose quill; thin leaves dull, very dark green above, 
half. glaucous green beneath; infrutescence ascending; 
Baguio, March, 1907. 2 
8887, Pandanus caudatus Merr. Trees 6 meters high, 
rigidly and rather sparsely branched from above the middle; 
branches crooked, thick, crowned at the apex by the leaves; 
younger central leaves erect or ascending, emaller; old ones 
agcending with the upper half usually nicked and hanging, 
shredding from the apex, longest ones 6 feet and 4 inches 
wide, at the base deeply furrowed, paler or subglaucous green 
beneath sym syncarpia solitary from the branches, upon a 2 
foot long peduncle; fruit somewhat elongated, only slightly 
_ tapering from base to apex, 10 to 12 inche& long, 6 to B& ittn 
WAehes aeross the base, the exposed portion yellow when mature 
with the sides more of a reddish color; the thick reesptacle 
with a strong “pine apple" odor, stems 8 inches in diameter, 
yellowish gray with white blotches; spines short and blunt; 
prop roots few, usually nemt to the ground; bafigchafig. 
Baguio, larch, 1907, 
8888, Derris multiflora benth, Scandent and sprawl- 
ing shrub, upon small trees on banke of river at Sablan; 
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