branches crooked; wood very hard, reddish on the interior of 
the sap wood which is whitish; bark of a dark rusty brown, 
sealing in large but thin irregular plates; leaves spread4 
ing; branches curved upwardly and conduplicsate toward the 
base; inflorescence ascending; flowers greenish yellow, ca- 
ducous; in woodlands near bsyabas; "Tuol*® «+ the young leaves 
are used in drawing sores and boils to maturity; the wood is 
carved into tubs and troughs. Baguio, March, 1907, 
~~ 8969, Lees philippinensis Herr. Shrubs 5 meters 
high, with soft wood snd brown bark; infrutescence terminal, 
usually from two stalke which repeatedly branch divaricate- 
ly forming # chester 1 foot in diameter; fruits heavy, solid, 
yellowish; leaves, coriaceous, somewhat descending, dark 
green sbove, yellowish so beneath, the smaller ones flat, the 
large terminal one upwardly curved especially toward the base; 
in ravines near Sayebas; "“Lalakal, ® Baguio, liarch, 1907, 
6971. Microwmelum pubescens blm,. Laxly branched 
shrubs 3 to 5 meters high; stemea suberect, with soft and 
white wood; bark smooth, Brown With whitish blotches; leave, 
~~ ascending; the leafletea very soft, descending, convex on 
the upper surfece; infrutescence a terminal corymb, 1 foot 
in diameter; fruits erect, orange red when mature, conspiCc= 
uously punctate, its cotyledones dark green and folded; in 
shrubbery. of dry hillsides nesr bayabas; Baguio, Benguet, 
March, 1907, 
8972,  Lygodium japonicum aie Twining upon shrubs 
and coarse grasses in rather open places between Amukao and 
Sayabas; the sporophylls usually toward the terminus; common, 
The igorotes call it "Nito", and my faithful native of that 
class proudly informed me that the “Madera” of this species 
was used in braiding their ornamental rings or bandages worn 
above their calves of the legs and just beneath the knees! 
Baguio, March, 1907. 
8973, Conocephalus warburgii flm., n. sp. Seandent 
shrubs with more or less tough wood and smooth greenish (7%) 
gray bark; leaves subcoriaceous, flat, upon ascending pe- 
tioles but the biade somewhat descending, very unequal in 
size; axillary angled and strongly twisted axillary tubes 
present in the upper leaves; inflorescence axillary; between 
Awukao and bayabas, "“Anafol" + the roots are very strong and 
is therefore used in making deer traps in the form of latehne2- 
@@ or loops. Baguio, liarch, 1907. 
8974, Leucosyke hispidissimue liq. Much branched and 
spreading 4 meter high shrub: wood soft and easily cutting; 
bark smooth, brown on the branches, mottled gray on the stem; 
leaves moatly descending, conduplicate especially near the 
bage, very dull green above, whitish benesth; pistillate 
flowers in green globose pendulous heads; on dry ridges a- 
mongest other shrubs between Amukao and bayabas; Aaxxx - 

