flowers pure white, faintly fragrant; leaves equally dull 
green on both sides, recurved especially toward the tips; 
stems and branches slender, wiry with an ashy gray bark coW~ 
ered with whitish lenticels; "Upi.* Baguio, Senguet, 
luarch, 1907. 
8889. Hypolytrum compactum Nees. Loose tufts in 
dry loose soil densely covered with the foliage of the woods 
in which it was collected; leaves yellowish green on river 
cafiyon below Seblan; rare; "Sidak." Baguio, benguet, March, 
1907, 
6890. Placourtia inermis Roxb. About 6 meter high 
tree with an & inch trunk and spreading branches; leaves 
ventrally coduplicate, somewhat paler benesth; fruits axiz- 
lary or along the twigs in the axils of fallen leaves, 3/4 
inch in diameter, soft and dark purple when mature, Tine 
eating; igorote call it "Calomings"; petioles red; Baguio, 
Benguet, March, 1907. 
Note:- Calumifigs is 2 8 teter high tree on well drain- 
ed soil of steep shaded and wooded ravines near the river 
between the barrios of Kamucao and bayabas, not far from 
Gablan; branches widely spreading, the main ones ascending 
and from the middle; leaves submembranous, equally green on 
both sides, spoonshaped on the upper side; bark of stems 
and branches dark brown or nearly ferruginous, roughened 
with very numerous lenticels; wood solid, heavy and very 
hard; 
S891. Blaeocarpus macranthus err. Brect rigidly 
branched trees, 6 meters high; branches few thick but wide- 
ly spreading; bark pmooth gray lenticeled; wood white, soft 
? Goriaceous leaves radislly spreading from the enda of the 
branchlets strongly conduplicate ventrally and more or less 
recurved, pale green; infrutescence ascending, axillary, 
upon 6 inches long stalks; fruits round and hard, smooth 
as marbles, dark olive green; along river at 
Sablan; injured or insect stung fruits bleeding a resinous 
gum; Baguio, benguet, March, 1907, 
8892. Fhylacium bracteosum Denn, Yerennial herbs 
P (?) with slender twining green stems festooning coarse 
grass clumps along the River; lesflets spread- 
ing and perfectly flat, ashy green beneath; purplish flow- 
ere and l-seeded flat pods roofed over with a thin yellow- 
ish green persistent bmered; stems below smooth yellowish, 
woody; "Ditidid.* Baguio, March, 1907. 
8895. Pygeum latifolium ig. Small 5 meter high 
tree like shrubs; woody whitish, tough; bark finely checked, 
mottled; old coriaceous leaves dull green, with prominent 

