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6932, papartes meyeniana Walp. Shrubs 4 meters high, 
branched from the base or seversl stemmed from the same root 
Cluster; stems soft, with a large pith; bark yellowish gray, 
lenticeled; coriaceous leaves pendulous, pale green, provided 
with stinging hairs; branchlets few, thick; erect or ascending 
inflorescence pale yellow or whitish; the inflorescence stalks 
purplish; "Adalatafg,. " Baghio, Warch, 1907, 
8933. Tylophora merrillii Sehiech, Matted upon shrubs; 
stems and branches smooth, green, and climbing by twining; 
lesves subcoriaceous, equally green on both sides pods yellow- 
igh green, pendulous; Laguio, March, 1907. 
8934, Gmelina hystrix Kurz, About 3 meter high shrubs, 
its ultimate branches rather short, divaricste and forming more 
or lese flattened masses or bunches; leaves shining green above, 
much paler beneath, ascending, submembranous; bracts yellowish 
green; flowers pendulous, light lemon color; fruits smooth, obo+- 
void, also vendulous, yellowish, soft and watery when mature; 
wood soft, white; bark yellowish lenticeled; dwarfed branchlets 
on the stem remain as spines; "Soweow" + excessive wetness 
make the skin of the Igorote toes sore - and the juice of the 
fruite sare used to cure the malady, Baguio, Benguet, March, 
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8935, Svodia trifolia i. Shrubs 4 meters high, with 
mostly ascending branches; wood white, soft and easily break- 
ing; bark brown, that on the stem somewhat checked; leaves 
submembranous, dull dark green especially on upper surface; 
persistent infrutescenceken beneath the foliage; "Nlaten,” 
Baguio, Zareh, 1907. 
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8936,  Unearia hofkeri Vid. Slenderly sprawling shrubs 
with brown smoothish stems; young infrutescence green and pen- 
dulous; but the calyx lobes lighter creen; stems 1/2 inch thick, 
brown flexible; lesves spreading, slightly recurved; more or 
less pefidulous; "Kawikewit." Laguio, Benguet, March, 1907, 
8937, Casearia fuliginosa bleo, & 3 meter high shrub 
with slender half drooping unbranched twigs; bark yellowish, 
lenticeled, that on the twigs green; corisceous leaves deep 
shining green above, paler beneath, subpendulous, characteris~- 
tically conduplicate on upper surface; flowers green; 28 are 
“also the erect buds; Baguio, March, 1907. 
8936, Lepidopetslum perrottetii Bblm, Shrubs 4 meters | 
high, with compsratively soft white woods; bark smooth, yellowe- 
ish gray; leaves membranous, equally green on both sides; in- 
floregscence green except the stamens which are pale yellow; 
wood of the twigs tough ite bark readily peeling, with a fetid 
odor; leaflets descending, only slightly conduplicate on upper 
side; baguio, Benguet, March, 1907. 
8939. Pithecolobium dulee bth, Spreading round topped 
4 meter high trees; bark yellowish; branchlets set with spines; 
membranous leaves ascending, the leaflets folding toward their 
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