yellowish veins; infrutescence erect or ascending axillary, 
1 to 3 inches long; the sbhightly compressed and bi-seeded 
berries subsessile, soft and with a dark purple juime and 
well as its mest; along the Ripswam River; "Calishifig." 
Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
8896, Hydrocotyle delicata Hlm,, n. sp. Densely 
and evenly covering rock surfaces near thy River a- 
bove Sablan; foliage light green; seeds erect, upon 1 inch 
long green pedicle; Baguio, March, 1907, 
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8896, Hoya benguetense Sohliecht, Seandent and matter, 
ed, the slender stems frequently forming tangled masses 
CQumongst nearly decayed hanging limbs from large trees near 
and almost overhanging the River above Sablan; 
leaves fleshy but comparatively thin, yellowish green beneath, 
dull green above; flowers fleshy, hanging by the dull purplish 
pedicels; calyx also somewhat purplish on the outside, other- 
wise pale white, recurved and reflexed in mm anthesis; The 
home of ante! “Kmum." Baguio, Marek, 1907, 
ny 
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8897, Bauhinia whitfdardii Zlm., n. sp. Climbing by 
loops, the wood of the wrist thick stems reddish and soft; 
old bark #imelg-er coarsely checked, that on the branches 
smooth and yellowish brown; stems flattened, longitudinally 
grooved on each side, watery; pods hanging flat, smooth, 
hard, brown as dark leather; subcoriaceous leaves shining 
above, usually partly folded Like a "butterflies' wings"; 
. dnflorescence erect or at least ascending; the delicate te 
Dpreading petals deciduous and light brick red throughout; 
on trees along the River above Sablan; fresh 
flowers the color of an egg yolk except the green stigma, 
faintly but sweetly fragrant; "Chipig"- branches use aa 
ropes in tieing. Fruits called *Atiplauan," Baguio, 
Merch, 1907, 
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8898. Garnotia stricta Brongn, Usually in small 
handsome tufts upon moss covered and damp rock surfaces in 
well shaded places along the River above Sablan; 
common; "Pawai"- feed for stock. Baguio, March, 1907. 
8899. Carruthersia hirsutus HBlm., mn. sp. Climbing 
by the slender greenish brown flexible stems; leaves coris- 
ceous paler beneath ; infrutescence upon 6 inch long woody 
hanging stalk which are usually 3 to 5 branched from above 
the middle; pods (?) green/ hard, strongly grooved, freely 
bleeding with white sap; ong River above Sablan; 
bark milky; Baguio, March, 1907. 
S900. Medinilla astronicides Trians. Spreading 4 
meter high shrubs on banks of the River and partly 
overhanging it; wood soft but rather closely graingd, reddish; 
old bark checked, that on the branches mostly smooth and yel- 
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