lowksh gray; membranous leeves flat and spreading with re-« 
eurved peel very variable in size, Bonn green above yellow- 
ish green beneath; infloerese@noe 1 te atelks, termine] 
elwavs; petele whitish reourved; Ret £ horns (?) pink; 
fruits dull derk red, slightly beonder across the base; 
Baguio, Mereh, 1907. 
S001. Nepl¢age this tenuis Clarke. Degwmbent or reelining 
herba, mumerously brenched md teking reo% 6% the Joints; 
foliare pele sreen bonenth, dark eresrn above exeept the yellow- 
igh white veins; in loose’ danp sendy 80]1 betwixt reeks of 
the Mivér bed chove Sabian; Tlowerg minute, white; 
Wadat,"  Raguio, Merch, 1907, 
6902. j Semecarpus gigantifolia Vid. Slender unbranched 
LO meter high trees, in revines of the River above 
sahlen; berk reugheoned with lenticela, grayish white, mottled, 
thiek, yellow beneeth the sking; wood soft, white, 4 th a 
iergz@ pith; ilesvea only at the top, arowied an % ho 5 distinet 
yearly ciroles 2 to § inches apert, rigid. and somewhat brittle, 
upper eurtece conduplisate, mar eins strongly undulete, paler ,- 
green beneath, lowex ones deflexed and leaving large sears sid) J 
after falling, larger ones 5 feet long end 1 foot wide; 
Sloreseence alongs the stem, in 3 to 8 unbranched visteline 
reddish brown stalks: . flowers rigid, deciduous, upon equally 
eolored pedicels; cGorolle greenish on the outer side, pele 
white on the inner; overy read; enlyx also dark btown; 
"Jpip.” » Beenio, Marah, 1907. 
8903. Hyarecotyle bensuetensis Bli., Me 8p. 
(beseription eressed ent), Baguio, March, 1907. 
8904. Gyrtendra cumingzii Clarke. Three meters high 
@hrube, meny branched; wood breaking with & snep, soft; 
bark emooth, yellowish; flabby eorlaceous ? or half suceulent 
leaves mach paler beneath; flowers white, net exeeeding the 
oyacta; costiy slong streams ef shaded ravines at sablen; 
"fabdabecho," Baguio, March, 1907, 
6905, -Alpinie philippinensis Ridi, Fail seat tering 
herbs in loamy soil aleng the River above Seblan; ine 
floreseence erect, from the mpper leaf sherth, & to 1 Loot 
long ani upen 1 to 2 feet long stelks; flowers fleshy, soon 
perishing, the outer parts white, the inner part yellow end 
deep red on the inside, deflexed; buds also white with pink 
apices; leaves variable in size, soft, eonduplicate and derker 
ereen shove, 6 inches apert; me reine end inner eurfece of | 
sheaths dark red; stems recurved, 5 to 7 feet high, with 
ascending Leaves agranged in PRARCaenenn rows; "“Baray %.* 
6906, Havelee media av. Spreading tree 6 neters high, 
ultimete branches usurlly saeeending; wood medium herd; bark 
yellowish grey, finely @hecked; leaves redisliy apreading, 
aseending, eoriegeous, lishter green beneath; fruite tere 

