9525, dlaeocarpus verriculosus Ar. DC., n, ep, 
A numerously and laxly branched shrub 4 weters high; bark 
grayish white; leaves recurved, deep green but especially 
go above; flowers pendulous; calyx dull red or deep pink; 
corolla creamy white; anthers of the aame color; ovary and 
basal portion of the etyle green; Baguio, March, 1907, 
9326, begonia manillensis SC, gn damp moist rock 
ledges, usutlly in the soil and very luxurient in very 
damp and shaded places, along wooded ravires near Twin 
Peeks; here common; leaves succulent; flowers pink and tum- 
ing whitish when old; Baguio, Aareh, 1907, 
9327, Segonia lagunensis Slm., n, sy. Seandent on 
undersh rubs at 16800 meters; soft etem the size of a little 
finger, watery, flexible, and clothed we with 4 thin light 
gray bark; branches succulent, reddish, rather mm numerous; 
leaves mostly subdeflexed, thick, breaking with 4 snap, 
light green, flat with reddish teeth recurved, its petioles 
also red; flower pedicels similarly red, etraight, divaricate 
or subdef lexed; petals pinkish white, imvardly curved, very 
delicate and pretty; pistils lemon color; Lueban, Nay, 
1907, 
9529, Piper umvellatum subpeltatum C, DC. S¢eandent 
sorubs upon small tree trunks, finely snd uumerously branched; 
bark mostly swooth and green; inf rutescence pendulous, yel- 
iow; quite common in limestone ravines at 4,500 feet; joints 
“mot essily disconnected; “Dajuran.® Baguio, “Mareh, 1907. 
9330. Piper Marivelesanum C, DC. Scandent upor ‘ 
enall dead trees in woods between Sampaloe and Lucban, branche 4 
_@@ out not forming dense bushes; stems 1/35 inch #x thick, 
@vreenish, densely covered with email brown lenticels; leaves. 
@® much varying in size, horizontally spreading or subde- 
flexed, rather thin but very flexible and tough: fruite, 
leaf opposed, subpendulous, the older ones tumxx tu ming 
brown; Lucban, liay, 1907. 
9331, Piper caninum latibracteum C, DC, A twining 
ehvub, climbing along small stems 3 meters high, forming 
loosely tangled bushes, in woeded ravines at 650 meters; 
round stems less than 1/3 inch thick, tough, brown and len- 
ticled; branches quite rigid, green; leaves ouly slightly 
recurved toward the apex, leathery, dull dark green above, 
much paler beneath; Lucbh 2, May, 1907, 
9552, Piper peeudocharica ¢C, DC. branched and 
Climbing up an earth cut af avery damp wooded ravine at 
775 meters; stems and branche@s greenish, 1/3 inch thick, 
hairy; quite rigid and breaking with a sap; slender branched 
em Gescending, sparingly branched; leavés subcoriaceous, 
dark green above, paler beneath, also des@ending; thee 8 
and fruits pendulous, usually from the te nsinal leat, 
Lucba, May, 1907. 

