8960, Strychnos multiflora ith, Tough subscandent 
shrubs with crooked subflexible brown stems; leaves very Co- 
rieceous, é6ull dark green sbove, yelhbowish green beneath, 
flat and ascending; infrutesecence of 1 to 3 6 inch long 
Clusters from the ends of the branches; fruits pendulous, ir- 
regular in shape and size, hard, smooth, green; in wooded ra- 
vines amongat the big trees below Balete; "Chacsel” + stems 
used for tieing, Baguio, Benguet, Karch, 1907, 
8961, Litsea membranscea Slim., A. 8p. Breet slender 
& meter high tree; its slender branches divaricate, sparingly 
oranched; bark brown, smooth; wood whitish and soft; flowers 
clustered upen short tubercles along the twigs: membranous fiat 
leaves radially spreading from the ends of the suberect twigs, 
xpikumam glaucous green beneath; wood of pranches with a large 
pith; in woodlands below balete; "“Tawaco?"  saguio, March, 
1907. 
8962, Alehdrnea javensis blm, iranched shrubs 5 me- 
ters high; leaves ascending and radially spreading, nearly 
flat; inflorescence terminal, reddish; in jungles amongst the 
big trees below balete; Baguio, March, 1907, 
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8963, wergemia hastata lallier. Numerously branched ‘ 
perennial herb, climbing over thickets; capsules upon ascends?) 
atealks; at balete; Baguio, March, 1907. 
8965, Groton consanguineus Muell. Arg, Slender erect 
trees, 10 meters high, with many ascending branches mostly to- 
ward the top; leaves submembranous, equally green on both sides 
and harsh to the toueh; descending, conduplicate on the ven- 
tral gide especially toward the base; conspicuous glands yel- 
lowish; capsule green but covered with a brown scurfy pubes- 
cence ¥ wood white, comparatively soft; bark smooth, gray 
and white mottled; along streams of woods of the big trees 
near balete; Baguio, March, 1907, 
S966, Ficue indicus Linn, Widely spreading tree, pro- 
bably only 15 meters high; branchlets numerous; leaves corisa- 
eeous, nearly flat, darker green above; figs sessile or sub- 
ges#ile, axillary, rather hard and dark dull red; near streams 
below balete; "Balete." Baguio, March, 1907. 
8967. Blaeocarpus “lmeri Aug. DC,, nH. Sp. Tall spread- 
ing trees, 20 or more meters high, with guberect main branches 
from below the middle; branchlets rather numerous, crooked, 
comparatively short, forming bushg ends at the main branch es; 
wood yellowish white, quite hard; bark mottled with gray and 
white; inflorescence from the leaf axils or from the axils of 
fallen leaves, silvery green when in bud; flowers pendulous, 
caducous, with reddish petals and base of filsments; quite 
common in low swampy ground with jungles and the big trees at 
Balete; baguio, Mareh, 1907. 
8968, Bischofia trifoliata Hook. Trees 20 meters 
high, its main branches from the middle widely spresding; 
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