minal, irregularly globose, solid, brown; minute seeds winged; 
on River above Sablan; "Behees" fruite esaten; Baguio, 
benguet, arch, 1907, 
aay 
8907,  Turpinia powifera 0. Spreading tree 5 meters; 
wood soft, white; bark smooth, mottled; leaflets strongly con- 
duplicate on the upper side, recurved and more or less droop- 
ing, lesthery, shining dark green above, paler benesth; infru- 
tescence terminal, several stalked from the base, these widely 
spreading (often s foot or even two feet across), sparingly 
branched, the branchlets smooth end yellowish green; brown 
fruits erect; in dry ground on ravine benches above Sablan; 
*"Danipo. ™ Gaguio, benguet, March, 1907, 
6908. Strongylodon cserulea err. A Looping liana, 
the leafy branches reaching and spreading out on the tops of 
tall trees; the stems often as thick as a man's arm, usually 
flariferous where hanging clear f foliage, crooked; its 
wood soft; bark roughened, ashy gray; inflorescence 6 to 12 
inches long, shining dark purple, single or several from 
the same short tubercle, divaricste; flowers-arranged along 
the upper side of their support; lower lip of corolla dark 
olive or poisonous green, after withering turning to purple; 
leaves smooth, flat, darker green on upper surface; flowers 
succulent; on trail 1 mile sbove Sablan; “Mpotinkodiran,”* 
Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
8910. . Mucuna luzoniensis Merr. Climbing over cope- 
ses w@ of dry hot meadows at Gablan; stems soft, flexible, 
twisted and subtwining, 1/2 inch in diameter, vrown, covered 
with large blunt lenticels; younger branches the w size of 
goose quills, green; leaflets flat, soft, paler green benesth, 
shallowly retuse and finely apiculate at apex; spikes 6 to 
12 inches long, axillary and pendulous; succulent dark pur- 
plish flowers descending; i was told by a native that the in- 
florescence is sometimes used by riders who desire to make 
quick trips: the hotter the animal gets the more the & stinging 
hairs burn like fire. After thétrip the horse is serubbed 
with water which releaves the pain and incidentally washes the 
haire out of the skin; "Segwaguil*+- the juice of the wood is 
applied on wounds, Baguio, BDenguet, Mareh, 1907. 
cate } 
. 6911, Raydia whitfordii (@lm,) Merr. Slender erect 
& meter high tree in woodlands below Sablan; wood yellowish, 
medium hard; bark brown or yellowish brown, finely checked 
and shaggy; limbs comparatively long, slightly ascending; 
branchlets descending, grayish white; frurts mostly from the 
axils. of fallen leaves, solitary, subglobose, green and hard; 
seeds compressed irregulerly, green; “Pile.”  iUaguio, March, 
e912. Pisonis excelss blm. Crookedly spreading tree, 
7 meters high; main branches from below the middle, ultimate 
branches suberect; bark lenticeled, yellowish brown; wood pale 

