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9333, Piper egrnistilum C, DC, Glimbing, and forme 
ing bushes on trees and shfubs of 4 ravine along the rivulet 
at 650 meters; younger branches subpendulous, green, very 
nodulose; leaves coriaceous, very lucid green on the upper 
surface, Pecurved, only slightly conduplicate on the upper 
side, dull green below; inflorescence erect, leaf opposed, 
rich cream yellow, upon green pedicels; Lucban, May, 1907, 
9334, Piper Korthalsii wig, var, lengibracteun CC. DC, 
Climbing slender trees up to 15 feet where it is bushy and 
_ uch bfanched; steme 1 inch thick, with ridged bark; leaves 
fleshy but not rigid; berries yellow, when fully mature red- 
dish; in woods at 2000 feet. iLueban, May, 1907. 
9335, Piper ovatibaceum BD, DC, Seandent upon under- 
shrubs in @fy woods at 800 meters; stems 1/3 inch thick, A 
tightly cleaving to their support; bark gray, coarsely checkes | 
ea; branches nodulose, subdeflexed; leaves submembranous, f 
much lighter green beneath, tips only slightly recurved; 
fruite erect, cylindric; Lucban, Hay, 1907. 
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9356,  Strongylodon macrobotrys A, Grag, A looping 
liane in jungles bordering streams of deep gulches at 650 
meters; stems 1 to 2 inches thick, flexible with rather soft 
porous wood; bark gray, finely mottled; leaflets coriaceous, 
deep green above; paler beneath, short tips recurved; infru- 
tease me upon slender hanging spikes 3 to 5 feet long, either 
from the stem or a continuation of the leafly branch; pods 
upon 1 to 2 inches long peduncles, hard, smooth, green, the 
Shape of a short thick "mango", 6 inches long, 3 inches 
thick; Lucban, lay, 1907, 
. 9837, Spatholobus ferrugineus Benth, Tall climbers, 
forming dense hanging tangled bushes near the tree tops on 
the iver; stems and branches ery, flexible; leavei 
@@ subscafious, concave beneath, dark and semilucid green 
above, paler beneath, subpendulous inflorescence light brown 
in general appeerance,. terminal of axillary, (but usually 
hanging free) paniculate from 1 to 2 feet long, lax; corolla 
minute, dark pufplish red; Lucb m, May, 1907. 
9338, S$trongylodon warburgii Perk, Seandent upon 
jungles and forming dense covers upon them, at 750 meters; 
leaves neatly of the same dark green on both sideg, coria- 
Geous; inflorescence upon slender green and axillary pendu- 
lous peduneles, geen except th ucculent pale white flow- 
evs which goon fall and upon wi ring turning black; Lut+ 
9339, Derria lianoides 8lm, A much sptawling sc ane 
dent liana in woods at 800 meters; stems 1 inch thick or less, 
Found, flexible and very tough, inclined to twine upon one 
another, forming the common rope shaped hanging stems; wood 
soft fy porous; old bark gray, that on the branches brown, 
lenticellied; branches divaricate, often hanging free from 

