9299. Calamus discolor Kart, Seandent climbers in 
jungles along stream gulches at 650 meters; stents 1/2 inch 
thick, smooth, green, with rings 3 te 5 inehes apart, wiry; 
upper portion of stem clothed with persistent sheaths demely 
beget with thin very slender hrown spines; leaves 5 to 5 
feet long, leaflet bearing for the uprer 2/3; leaflets dark 
shining green above, glaucous beneath, very thin; hooked 
rachis altermmating with the leafs and twice the Length af 
the foliage, Lucban, May, 1907, 
9300, Pinang philippinensis secc. Zostly solitary 
trees 5 to & meters high in dry woods at 750 meter or at 
a higher elevation; stems slender, smooth, greenish, z< to 3 
inches thick; wood gk quite brittle, reddish, fibrous; leav- 
es thin, ascending, 3 to 5 feet long, leaflet bvesring within 
a foot from the base of the petiole; sheath twice the thick- 
ness of the stem immediately below it, 2 feet long, reddish 
brown; rings toward the base 3 to 5 inches apart, only 1 
inch apart teward the shesth; pendulous fruit panicle 1 foot 
long and nesdy 28 wide, green; fruits strictly in 2 opposite 
yow s: Lucban, way, 1907. 
9Sul, Caryets rumpisna philippinensis becc, Soli- 
tary erect trees 15 to 25 meters high, on steep ravines at 
70G meters; tmmk 10 inches in diameter; bark of the younger 
trees brown, that on the old trunks gray; exteriorwoo hard, 
the inside soft and fibrous; leaves asemding or on old 
trees nearly horizontal, lo to 20 fe % long, leaflet bear 
ing nearly to the txrkangukaxy very base of the green very 
stout triangular stalk although the basal leaflets are ve ry 
much reduced, sheaths rather inconspicuous, mostly ridged, 
etiff brittle like fibers dansely interlaced and matted; 
stalks of lesflets ho rizontal; inf ritescence and inflo res- 
cence upon a recurved 4 inch thick stalk which is about lv 
inches long; flowering branches very numerous, 2 to 6 feet 
long; leaflets coriaceous, deflexed, shining dark green on 
upper surface, quite heavy; petals of staminate flowers 
very thick and rigid, with purplish tips; dull yellow anthers 
thin, radially deflexed; young shining green fruits in no 
regular rows;  iucban, May, 1907, 
9302, Pyenarmena manilensie Vid. Los Bafos, April, 
196. 
(No dese ription) 
9504,  CGhisocheton cumingianea (DC.) Harms, Sp read- 
ing tree & meters high, on steep slopes of gulches at 700 
meters; wood hard, whitish; bark brown, roughened or checked 
with much elongsted lenticels, gray on the branches which 
are rather rigid and sparingly rebranched; leaves 1, 2 to 
5S fest long, descending with 5, 7 to 9 pairs of lesflets, 
leaflets siso descending, coriaceous, shining green above, 
yellowish green beneath, strongly conduplic ste on the upper 
side; inflorescence upon 1 to 2 feet long axillary spikes, 
subpendulous; buds greenish yellow; flowers light cream 
colorwith a very strong and exceptional sweet odor, deci- 
et By fwite globose, 3 inches in diameter, Lucban, May, 




