2 to & inches long, usually curved amd subdivaricate, good Ye 
inch thick, nearly of equal thickness throughout although toe 
ward the apex often seems 9 trifle thicker, perfectly round, 
green and hard, Lucban, May, 1907. 
9010. Freycinetia merrillii Slm., n. sp. Scandent in 
shrubbery slong creeks at 600 heters; climbing 5 to 5 meters 
high; stem and branches 1/2 ineh thick, yellowish smooth; branch@y, 
oe: few, subdeflemed; rings 1/2 to 1 inch apart; leaves along 
the twigs but chiefly toward the apex, leathery and can't be 
cracked or broken, light green but paler beneath, flat and some- 
what hanging by its own heavy weight; Luecban, liay, 1907. 
9Oll, Freycinetisa globosa Nerr, Seandent upon trees, 
8 to 6 meters high, in very humid forests at 500 meters, to=- 
(wards Gampaloc: stems at most 1/2 inch thick, smooth, hard and 
brown or when very 014 becoming gray: rings 1/2 inch apart or 
sometimes much less: branches divaricate, subpendulous, rather 
glender, 1 to 3 meters long, eparingly rebranched; leaves on 
the growing shoots rather dense and arranged in 3 rows; those 
on the older branches more scattering, the lateral rows diva- 
ricate, the middle upper one usually somewhat retrarse, flat, 
submewbranous, edges wavy or undulate especially toward the 
half twisting strongly recurved apex, quite unequal in size 
1 to 5 mx inches long, dark green above, paler beneath: 
Lucban, hiay, 1907. 
vol2, ¥reycinetia monocephaia 1m, Numerously branch<4_ 
wie snrubs climbing large tree trunks of damp well shaded woods 
at 750 meters: stems thin (the thickness of a goose quill) s#- 
S meoth, brown; branchlets subpendulous: thin leaves equally 
dark green on both sides; infrutescence terminal, solitary, 
(onee in 2 great while two) globose; Lucben, May, 1907. 
9013, Luzonia purpurea Hlm., n. sp, and nov, gen, ~~ 
Seandent upon lo meter high trees and sprawling over their tops, 
in wooded ravines at 775 metera; ultimate twigs greenish brown, 
covered with light gray lenticels; leaves ascending, submembra~- 
neous, lucid dark green above, duller beneath, the whole blade 
gradually curved toward the upper side; flowering stalks 1 to 
3 feet long, erect or suberect, green, quite rigid; buds very 
dark purple, erect; corolls also deep purple (the inner ones 
lighter purple) except the "banner" which has a yellow streak 
from the base to the middle in its central portion: filaments 
pinkish; pistil whitish; anthers brown; flowers caducous, quite 
rigid and half succulent; stems round, 1 to 2 inches thick, 
flexible, with soft porous wood slightly yellow and filled 
with water; bark brown, near the base thinly checked, also len- 
ticelled the entire length; Lueban, May, 1907, 
9014, Cynometra densiflora Sim,, n. sp. Round topped 
rether bushy trees, 15 to 20 meters high in humid woods at 
500 meters near Sampaloc;: main branchee ascending, the ulti- 
mate ones forming dense bushes; twigs rather short crooked 
and gnarly; leaves subcoriaceous, lucid green above, glaucous 

