inch thick, with the branches quite tough and wiry; bark yele 
lowish gray, smoothish or when old thinly checked; ultimate 
branches slender and half drooping; leaves descending in dis- 
tichous rows, sides as well as the entire blade recurved, dark 
green above, paler beneath, subcoriaceous; infrutescence quite 
rigid, erect, arising from the upper part of the wig, between 
and just below the pair of leaves; fruits numerously seeded, 
with a leathery green pericarp but with very thin almost ov 
Seure whitish placentae partitions; branches mostly in pairs 
also, Lucban, May, 1907. : 
9128. Artocarpus rubrovenia Yarb, Tree 15 meters high, 
branched above the middle; bark gray and brown mottled, gmoothe 
ish or with a few large lenticels, rather thick and reddish 
brown benesth the "skin"; wood hard, heavy, yellow especially 
towards the center of the 1 foot thick stem; white latex co- 
pious, gummy; leaves coriaceous, darker lucid green above, nerves 
yellowish white, strongly conduplicate on the upper side, its 
edges wavy; staminate (7?) flowers irregularly obovoid, the sizd 
of @ small hen's egg, yellowish, with a white spongy meat on the 
inside; pistillate heads hard, obovoid mostly, 1/2 ineh thick, 
greenish; in dry woods at 750 meters; Lucban, May, 1907, 
gle29, Palagquium gigantifolium Merr, Rather stout ~m 
Crect trees & meters high, with 6 inch thick stems; branches di- 
varicate, thick and sparingly rebranched; wood pale white, mo- 
derately hard; bark brown, rather hard, its sap milky; leaves 
crowded toward the ends of the stiff branches, rigid, coriaceous, 
flat and spreading; infrutescence immediately below the leaves, 
in small clusters; along the river at 700 meters; Lucban, 
. May, 1907, 
9130, Plectronia viridis Mérr, Small erect tree 5 mee 
ters high, with hard dull white wood; bark hard, amooth, gray 
and brown mottled; limbs slender, epreading; leaves coriaceous, 
Gull green above but paler beneath, conduplicate on the upper 
surface and with recurved tips; stipules yellowish; flowers so- 
litary in the leaf axils, erect; fruits am also erect, smooth 
and green, Saseeded; corolla thick and greenish; in thin woods 
at 700 meters; Lucban, May, 1907, 
9131, Dioscoréa daemona Roxbs Scandent upon tree of 
open woods at 60U meters, widely spreading and forming tengled 
bushes; old stems less than 1 inch thick, glaucous blue or 
brown, densely provided with sharp flattened spines; branches 
1/2 inch thick,: green, comparatively spineless; straight pee 
tioles erect; leaflets thin, descending, light green; stalke 
of infrutescence slender but very tough, 1 to 2 feet long, only 
the larger ones sparingly branched, axillary and pendulous, 
Lucban, May, 1907, 
91352, Meliosma sylvatica Him,, n. ap. Slender shrub, 
S meters high, rather weak and reodining; wood white, soft, ea- 
'@ily breaking; bark smooth, gray sé brown mottled;, branches 
sparse, thick; leaves rather thick but quite flexiple, dark 
lucid green above, reddish beneath, recurved; infrutescence 

