8960. Oraniea pelindan (Bleo.) Merr, Prom 10 to 15 
meters high with e 10 inch thick grayish end mottled stem; 
leaves ascending, 20 feet long, with smooth green rachis; 
leaflets twisted at the base and descending, flat when ma- 
ture, shining green on outer side, glaucous white underneath, 
decrecsing toward the avex whieh is irregularly S$runeate when 
in the younger state but seon beginning to shred; peticle 
1/8 the entire length (20 feet) of the leaf; branches of o14 
infrateseence persistent; the new mature one shining green 
throughout, Sseending, the strong rigid branches divericate 
from the main centrel one which is about 6 feet long snd $ 
to B inches thiek at the bese; brenchlets slender and droop- 
ing, 1 to 2 feet long, usually bearing from 1 to 5 nearly 
globose or short ebovoid hard, smooth, green and yeilowish 
spetted "nutes"; these when mature are solidly filled with 
a herd, tasteless, co¢on nut like meat; the secondery brenches 
are eeally as long as the ultimate ones; “"Neuk," Baguio, 
Merch, 1907s 
B°Bl. Penieun pelmaefolium Koen, Coarse herbs, 1 to 
@ meters high, in @eup shady grovnd and forming more or less 
tengled messes; leaves plieste, aseending bat gracefully re- 
evrved tewer® the epex, Light Breen; panicle erect, the flo- 
rete arrengeé mestly on the bower aide of the half creeping 
brenehlets: neer Palete; "Beliges," Baguio, March, 1907. 
B9h2. “emoerdica ecehinehinensis Spreng. twining and 
mugh sprawling; the leaf segments subplicete ventrelly; dark 
green above, less so henesth, eseending; bracts yellowish 
green, rocfing over the flower which is pendulous; selyx 
bieokish brown: the 6 petale pale white, with recurved 
apiees; the outer tre yellowish neer the base; tie inner 
three bleekish near the base; coder bad; near Balete; 
"tambeahine" freite veet in geme by the Igoroge children, 
Beguio, March, 1907, 
6953. Peyehotria teepo (BSleo.) Rolfe, Low slender 
shrubs, about & aetera high, with ameoth brown bark; lea¥es 
spreading, subeorlacecus, &uil green sheve, flat; infrutes« 
gence terminal; its stelks green; the drupes orange yellow, 
moxe or less choveid, shining amoeoth; near Belete; "Oreja" 
~ {ruits used as beads, Baenio, March, 1907. 
B9D46 Nacerangs mipp& Muell, Arg, Trees 6 meters high, 
xorely branched; the stems brown, sof) ani smooth; leaves 
towerd the top forming a solidly shaded crown, oveid or 
evbrotuni, & inches epsrt, &iger felling leaving large 
seers, membrencus and suescaricus, dark green ebove, yellow~- 
ish so veneath, descending; the 5 to 5 feet long smooth end 
green petioles secending trienguler; inflorescence erec’, 
light red, solitexry in each leef exil; subtended by two 
large yellowish bracts on sach side end whieh nueuelly exeeed 
the inflorescence; 014 infloressence often persistent but 
adeflexeé; in jungles of very damp deeply shaded ravines above 
falete; some of the larger leaves exe 5 feet long 
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