top of tite 2 to 3 inches thick stems or branches, subscarious, 
very unequal in sige, usually deflexed; Lucban, way, 1907, 
9241, Diospyros reticulata Mlm., n. sp. A 7 meter 
high bushy tree in shrubbery near the Sutano Falls; wood 
very herd white; dsrk brown bark checked; leaves descending, 
very corinceous, strongly conduplicate on the upper side, 
lucid green above; fruit solitary and axillary, upon a short 
pedicel. Lucban, May, 1907. 
Pede, Litsea grigeola {lm., nm. sp. Lange trees 
15 meters high; bark @ray or mottled, thick and checked; 
wood goft, white with a large pith; young bark brown; leaveg 
@% conduplicate on the upper side, coriaceous, much paler 
green beneath; fruits in small cluaters upon 1 to 3 inch 
atalks; calyx green, hard thick; nut (7) tuming whitish 
when mature; wucban, way, 1967. 
9243, Pothes ovatifolius “4ngl, scandent upon large 
tree trunks; stems smooth, green; branches subpendulous; 
leaves coriaceous, descending or horizontally spreading, 
dark green above, much Lighter beneath; fruit clusters 
hanging or suberect, 2 to 3 from each end; seeds Lemon 
yellow when fully mature. Lucban, day, 1907, 
9248, (Not distributed). 
Lueban, Tayabas f revince, Luzon, May, 1907, 
‘9249, Dendrobium Zlmeri Ames n, ap. Small tufts 
rather leogely hanging £a from limbe of trees in woods at 
750 meters; steme and leaves not rigid but etrongly co ria- 
Geous, @qually dark green on both sides; flowers rather 
rigid, the outer parts greenish, the inner parts flesh 
color; capsules hand, green, smooth; quite rave; Lucban, 
ay, 1907, 
9280. ivia faestigsatifolia Ames. omall tufts, sub- 
pendulous from the lower side of tree trunks; stems about 
2 to 3 feet long, toward the base brown, rather hard ani 
brittle; Leavea da ker green above, flexible, subcoriaceous; 
the stem and leaves very similar in general appearance to 
some alpine Yreycinetias; infrutescence subdeflexed, reddish 
@rown; rare in woods at 2,000 meters; bmets greenish, 
Lucban, ay, 1907... 
9252, Jendrochilum strictifome (Ames) Pfitz, 
in gmall dense clumps upon limbs of trees; leaves not fleshy, 
smooth and shining; flowers in opposite sand alternating rows, 
nearly snow white, sveetly fragrant (similiar to. sweet vemal 
graces of the Gimtem OTates); at 2000 feet, Lucban, way, 
1907, ’ 

