9107, Fagraes obovatsa Wall. Tree like shrubs 3 to 56 
meters high, often on sides of large lisne covered tree trunks, 
in woods st 850 meters; wood comparatively hard; bark brown, 
roughened with lenticels, smooth and yellowish on the twigs; 
leaves very coriaceous, ascendingly spreading, deep dull green 
above, yellowish so beneath, curved umwardly with recurved 
lips; fruits ereet, 1 to 3 clustered at the ends of the branche 
lets; its flattened pedicel + calyx green and thick; fruit<@e- 
Olive green, shining; Lucban, May, 1907. 
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#108, Dichapgt alum Ssvicatum @lm, sparingly but wide- 
ily branched shrube/3 to 5 meters high in wooded ravines at 
70G meters; wooed whitish, closely grained and hard; bark vel» 
lowish brown; leaves submembrangus, darker green above; ine 
frutescence subterminal, usually from the leaf axils, droop. 
ing, upon 6 inches long slender spikes which are usually 1 
to several clustered from the base - very sparingly branched; - 
fruite with a very duli purple velvety coat; seeds surrounded 
by a light yellow esrunele; Lucban, May, 1907, 
Gives, Gratoxylon blancoi sim, Spreading trees, 15 mee. 
tere high, near the Butano ‘alle; main branches widely spread-~ 
ing, bsrk sealing in plates; wood very hard; fruite in amail 
Glusters, either in the leaf exile or in the axils of the 
fallen lesves, erect; bucben, ay, 1907, 
91lv, Diospyros discolor Vilid, Trees in woods at 
DOO meters; leaves descending, flat’ onduplic ate on the upper 
Side shining green, much paler beneAth, leathery; fruits sub. 
Pendulous, upon 1 te 3 inch long, axillary or terminal stalks; 
Lucban, May, 1907, 
@lll a, Miquelis cumingii Baill, A Glimbing suffrue 
tescent slant, festooning the thieketa or jungles on banks 
of water courses at 600 meters; submembranous lesves descends. 
ing, entire or coarsely toothed, paler benesth; stems the size 
of 4 goose quill, yellowish, can readily be tied into knots; 
fruite axillary, yellowish red and quite soft when mature, 
Lucban, May, 1907, 
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Mii, Hacaranga lohdri Jim, smail erect trees with 
ascending branches, 5 metera high, in copses at 750 meters; 
wood soft, wiite; bark yellowish brown, covered with small 
Llenticels; leaves subcoriaceous, deflexed, curvingly om cone 
duplicate on the upper surface, dull green above, glaucous 
green beneath; infruteseence axillary, ®sseending; fruits glo} 
buler shining; Lucben, ay, 1907, 
G1is, Elaesgnus latifolia Linn, 4& scandent much 
branched shrub in copses at 70 meters; wood tough; bark we 
>mooth, grayish brown; lesves membranous, lucid green above, 
silvery beneath, usually with recurved tips and margine; flow. 
ers pure white, etrongly and sweetly fragrant, pendulous from 
the leaf axils; fruits flesh colored and soft, juicy when m= 
ture, very palatable (a mixture of sour and speet) - Luce 
ban, May, 1907, . ; 

