9282, Saprosma ternatum Hook, Hrect shrab 2 meters 
high in well drained soil of light wooda at 800 meters; wood 
pale white essily breaking; bark thin, slightly checked, 
yellowish brown; lesves submemb ranscus, lucid green above, 
duller green beneath; inflorescence from the lower lesf axils 
or from the axils of fallen leaves, the green branches ra- 
diating and subpendulous; flowers pendulous, succulent; ca- 
lyx rigid, whitish with a £extmiks tinge of purple near or 
at the base of the cupseorolls light creamy white, much 
softer in texture, Lueban, May, 1907, 
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9225, Helicia lo rantpides Pres Rpean, Bot. 247, 
1849, ‘Type specium collected by Cussing (868) from Albay 
Province, Luzon «- not previously discovered by Americans, 
Luecban, May, 1907, 
9224, Rauclea nitida Hav, Trees 10 to 15 meters 
high, in wavines at 775 meters, branched from the middle; 
twigs flexible, sometimes with 2 very conpicuous thin white 
bark; leaves flat, smooth shining dark green sbove, paler 
beneath, coriaceous; infloreseence globose, usually soli- 
tary, sweetly fragrant, with reddish pekm corollas, other- 
wise creamy white; wood very hard, closely grained dull 
white; bork yellowish brown, lenticelled and scaling in . 
gmall rather thin and brittle plates; Lucban, May, 1907, 
9225, Saurauj® luzoniensis verr, Laxly spreading 
shrub, 2 meters high in kx the woods st &50 meterea; whitish 
wood easily cutting and rather soft; bark brown, sealing 
when eld; leaves subcoriaceous, harsh, dull green above, 
wuch Lighter beneath spreading; flowers upon recurved or 
gubpendulous peduncles, usually single but sometimes = to 
3 clustered; corolla delicate white, deciduous pistil ¢ reen- 
igh white; anthers yellow; filaments conspicuously Light 
‘blood red; Lucban, way, 1907, 
9226, Homalanthus populneus Fax, Hmall trees 4 
meters high, in light woode skirting the mesdows at 750 
meters; top round; branchlets numerous and flexible; leavex_ 
28 membranous, olive green beneath; inflorescence yellowish 
green, subere but the upper half gracefully recurved; 
fruits erect, Qsucous green; wood soft, yellowish; bark 
brown, densely lenticelled, Lucban, Kay, 1907, 
9227, Conocephalus grandifolius Yarb, Sh rubs in 
jungles or subscandent in habit; steme a few inches thick, 
very soft, branched irregularly, with gray man bark obs- 
curely checked and with brown lentiscels; branches rather 
long, very thick and sparingly reoranched, subdeflexed; 
leaves conduplicate on;the upper side, very unequal in size, 
the larger ones 2 to 3) leng and correspondingly wide, 
subcoriaceous, paler green beneath; inflorescence axillary, 
greenish white, 6 inches long and about ae wide; Lucban, 
May, 1907, 

