sparingly rebranched, easily breaking; rigid coriaceous 
Leaves ascending, dark green above, much paler beneath; 
flowers white, in fascicles from the axils of the leaf 
scars, pendulous deciduous; pedicels also white; Lucban, 
way, 1907, 
9210. GClethra tomentelia Holfe. Tree 15 meters 
high, rather widely epreading from the middle, ultimate 
branches erect and numerous; wood white, hard; bark brown, 
scaling in plates; leaves submembdranous, smooth and green 
above, wuch paler benesth; inflorescence terminal, spread- 
ing, quite flexible but erect mostly; corollas white; flow- 
ere sweetly fragrant; in wooded ravines at 850 meters; 
Lueban, May, 1907. 
9211, Trichosporuam ecrassifolium Zim., n, sp. Peg~ 
tooning tree trunks that incline over the river and forn- 
ing tangled masses (the pendulous stems often 5 meters 
long); stems grayish white, tough; leaves subpendulous, 
tips end margins recurved, very fleshy; flowers mostly so- 
litary from the leaf axils, recurved, xm» rather soft in 
texture, pinkish red except the much paler inner surface; 
mature pods 6 inches long; Lucban, Hay, 1907, 
9212. Vaccinium cumingianum Vid, Leaves coriaceous 
upon reddish twigs and petiohes, ascending, shining above, 
lighter green beneath; fruits pendulous, shining but when 
mature dull and nearly black; tre with reddish hard wood, 
and smoothish brown bark, about 10 meters high, the trunk > 
 gubhorizontsl and densely covered with mosses, ete: branches 
very rigid and crooked; brmchlets also rigid mk and generxy 
crooked, rather short; in the woods at the summit at 2,000 
mete rs; Lucban, May, 1907. 
9213. FPeychotria piloselia Sim,, n. sp. Rather 
rigidly and very crookedly branched under shrabs 1 to 2 
meters high in dense woods at &506 meters in the proximity 
of a precipice; wood moderately soft, closely grained, 
yellowish white; bark rather thick, smooth, green when 
young, dsrk brown or nearly black when o1d4; soft memora- 
nous leaves flat, epresding horizontally and radially; 
infrutescence terminal, ascending or subdeflexed; main 
peduncles 1 to 3, when the ke latter the middle one is 
the lenger and larger; berries ugually 1 to 3 subsegsily 
Clustered, elipsoid or slightly more truneste at the apex, 
green and shining: Lucben, way, 1907. 
9214, Taonabo scandens Sin, Beandent clear to the 
top of 18 meter high tree in the woods at 850 meters; 
branches saumerous and forming bushes; wood comparatively 
hard and rigid; bark smooth, gray orwhen old thinly 
checked; leaves ascending, with slightly recurved edges, 
very smooth, dull green above, yellowish so beneath, very 
coriaceous; buds recurfed, creamy white; mx e¢sducous flow- 
ere orange red; Lucban, Kay, 1907, 

