by 4 feet tide; sap of petioles very glutinous "Kinabafig" - 
leaves sre used to cober cooking pots, Baguio, March, 1907, 
8955, Phacelephrynium interruptum K. seh, tufted 
erect herbs 2 meters high; stems subterete, smooth and green, 
bearing a single leaf at the apex; leaves thin, dark green —.,r 
obove, light green beneath, usually filet but somewhat recurve? 
-—@¢ upon the strong gubterete and yellowish vetiole: inflores-— 
cence from 1 to 5 slender, erect, smooth and green staike of 
unequal Lengths and arising from the base of the leaf sheath; 
corolla delicatesy white, barely exceeding the rigid bracts; 
capsule yellow; seeds hard, black surmounted upon 4 salmon ¢o- 
lored fleshy base; in very damp ravines above balete; “Nitne," 
Baguio, March, 1907, ’ eae 
8956, Acacia. conecinna DC, Seandent and widely spread- 
ing branches, the ultimate ones comparatively short; stens 
tough; bark brown beset with spines especially on the branchQe-/ 
pees infrutescence upon short 1 to 5 inch long ascending branché 4, 
‘@@ from the leaf axils or from their fallen leaves; pods yel- — 
Lowiash areen, not hard, easily breaking, pendulous, varying 
in length, very sour; leaflets folding ventrally and paler 
green beneath; at Balete; "Saiwaing" - the pods are cooked with 
meate as food and it gives the whole dish a sour flavor, 
Baguio, Jenguet, March, 1907. 
8957, Knema heterophylla Warb, Trees, 10 meters high 
with an 8 inch trunk, white comparatively hard wood and smooth- 
ish grayish white mottled bark, only here and there checked and 
irregularly scaling in plates; branches slender divariaate: leave,, 
som sudmembranocus, deecending, curved upwardly, whitish beneath; 
flowers chiefly clustered upon short tubercles of the branches; 
perianth leathery, rygsty brown on the outside, pale white on 
the inner; in wooded damp ravines at Lalete; “Alas,” Baguio, 
march, 1907. 
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8958, Anthrophyllum sablanense Glm., m. 80. Uhbranche» 
ed ereat trees, 10 meters high, with brownish gray bark and 
soft wood containing in the part s large pith; leaf rachis 
$3 to & feet long divaricate or the older ones descending; true 
petiole only 1 er 2 feet, its base much thickened, closely set 
upon one another, leaving ™s shaped scare after falling; 
lesflets subcoriaceous, paler green benesth, its petioles ase 
cending ond arising from thickened nodes, strongly conduplicate 
on the upper aurface, usually recurved end much undulate or 
twisted margins{ infrutescence ig “the upper leaf axils, 3s 
‘leng as the leaves but usually spreading over them at the very 
top, the green stalk provided with 1 to 3 psirs of sma} op- 
posite leaves; pe ware 1 foot in diameter; light olive green 
fruits spreading, with a darker green cap; "Danipo," Baguio, 
Margh, 1907, 
8959, Liteea fulva Fy, Vil. Slender shrub, 3 meters 
high, in woodlands near streams at balete; stems sand branches 
brown, mottled; leaves flat, subcoriaceous; fruits creany 
white, in clusters upon the twigs below the leaves; rare! 
Baguio, Benguet, March, 1907, ; 
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