"“Dai* - the inner bark is used in braiding rather fine easily 
sliding strong strings mostly used in traps for catehing such 
animals ag wild chickens, young pigs and wild cats, ade, 
Baguio, waren, 1907, 
89765.  Glochidion aloum (Sleo.) Boerl. Lax shrub, 3 
meters high, in deep damp ravines near streams below bayabas; 
leaves fist, darker green above, brittle; flowers yellowish, 
glightly fragrant; rare, Baguio, Lenguet, March, 1907, 
8976, Musssenda anisophylla Vid. Spreading trees 5 
metere high, usually in woods and along water courses; wood 
whitish, soft; bark smooth, yellowish gray; branchlets slen- 
der, suberect, sparingly rebranched, leaves flat, spreading, 
‘few but only towards the ends of the twigs, very membranous, 
| dark green above, much lighter green beneath, soon wilting; 
.inflorescence suberect; bracts white; calyx green; corolla 
yellow; between Amukao and Sayabas; “bodos, * Baguio, March, 
1907, 
jy 
8977. Sntada gseandefs DC, A&A scandent and looping 
liana, with soft crooked and more or lees twisted 1 to 3 
inch thick stems; bark gray, roughened; mature pods 2 to 
6 feet iong, flattened and constricted between the seeds; 
seeds flattened,shining brown, hard as bone, and much used 
by the native children in “marble” games, it is called 
"Depai" and the wood is pounded soft and used by the natives 
as 4 soap substitute - becoming slippery and lathering when 
used in water; in jungles of ravines near Sablan; rare. 
"“Depai" the mature seeds are used 98 marbles and the flesh 
of the meat is sometimes used to apply to swollen skins 
to reduce the swelling, Baguio, March, 1907, 
8976. Yicus minahassse iiiq. Trees, 15 meters high; 
main branches from the middle or below this, the ultimate 7 
ones widely spresding; leaves often nearly flat; branchlets 
few, suberect, easily breaking with a snap; figs in sessile 
heads, *rranged in long subsppyllous tubercles along the 
stem but usually near the ground; common in sll the ravines 
about Sablean; "Alomit."  #aguio, benguet, March, 1907. 
879, Mblastoma Ochi pra Utah Bim, Lax spreading 
shrubs, 3 meters high, with soft white wood, and smooth 
yellowish bark; membranous flat leaves darker green above; 
flowers 2 or more inches in diameter, exposed to the sun 
usually; in dry woods at Amukso, "Suguawucs, * Baguio, 
March, 1907, 
8980, Thysanolaens maxima 0, Kurtz, Joarse, & to 
& meter high grass, usually growing together but not form- 
ing clumps; stems hard, terete, equally thick throughout, 
smooth, yellowish green, the upper half usually reclining; 
Leaves 6 inches apart, chiefly along the upper half of the 
stem, »sscending flat, often conspicuously glaucous green 

