e, 
nN os 
9255. ipiprempum Almerianum fngl, Climbing along 
stems of amall trees in woods at 850 meters; leaves mm co- 
rigceous, divericate or subpendulous infrutescence erect, 
upon a stiff 6 inch long peduncle; head hard, smooth, deep 
brick red, 35 inches long by 1 inch in diameter; Lucwan, 
Bey » 1907. ) 
9255. 
ivect herbs with fleshy subserial roots; stems sw succulent, 
brown; leaves very smooth and shining green above, much pa- 
ler beneath, subcoriaceous; ascending; flowers erect, the 
outer parts brown with whitish tips; lower lip seccate, 
yellow, bracts and stalks dull green; rare in rock crevices 
along streamlets of damp woods at 15uuU meters, Lueban, 
HAY » 1907, 
E50, Dischidia merrillii Schltr, Upon moss covered 
tree trunks, and hanging forming tangled ngsses anonget old 
dead limbs; stenues slender, thin, yellowieh ¢ my; leaves 
fleshy, with sharp edges, subperidulous, whitish streaked 
along the main nerves; succulent flowers, cardinel red, 2 
upon a short spike which is either sessile or peduntled, yel- 
lowish red on the interior, full eof nectar; sap white; 
Lucban, May, 1907, 
the upper side of subherizontal limbs; pseudobulfx connected 
by short tough rootstocks (7) soft (somewhat) green, sub- 
tended by thin nrarcescent sheaths; leaves subtoriaceous, 
@lightly paler benesth, apparently with an old inflorescence 
etalk, but ouy flowers are upon «& stalk arising from below 
the pseudobuly’ and subtended by grecnieh, ensiform shesths, 
subpendulous, the outer parts strongly cArinate and green- 
ish and subrecurved and rigid , lower lip of corolla streaked 
‘with rich yellowish brown; in woods at 800 meters; Lucben, 
ay, 1907, 
9258, -o@logyne integerrime Ames, aot} mate upon 
9262, veratostylis sénilie ‘eichb, Lucban, May, 1907, 
(Ao description; 
92635, ( 
Succulent herbs with fleshy subae rial roots; stems green, 
fleshy; leaves smooth, soft, darker green above; bracts 
foliecesus; flowers ascending, the outer parte green as 
the leaves; rare on damp grounds of wood at 1,900 feet\(7). 
Lucban, tay, 1907,-. 
9264, Dischidia hirsuts Vall. A Slender twiner 
about. limbs of a hardwood tree 8 meters from the ground; 
leaves very thick, somewhat rigid, flat except the obscurely 
recurved margins; flowers single or in paira upon strongly 
recurved peduncles, greenish yellow, flesng; on trees over 
hanging the river at Tou meters; Lucban, May, 1907, 

