10513.  Me@rle® begonisefolis Roxb.  Sm&ll crooket 
tree, 7 high, in Yight woods and thickets of the guiches 
between grassy ridges; wood moderately soft; smooth bark 
gray thinly checked when 014; branched from the middle, branches 
divaricate and only sp@ringly rebranched; letves descending, 
eoris@cecus, heavy, deep green ®bove, much lighter green beneath, 
the sides usu@lly wee-rolied in upon the upper side especi@iiy 
#o towards the Spex; inflorescence pendulous, gkeemm greenish 
white; pet@ig p®le white, circinstely reburved; filements 
and pistil whitish; anthere yellow especi@ily on the inner 
gide; flowers faintly fragrant; fruits dark green except the 
apex, with ® herd ne@rly blisck nut; Dumaguete, Tune, 1908, 
-  -:40312, S8@pium erSesifolium Bim,, a. #p,. Stunted 
trees or tree like shrub, on open dry gr®esy ridges St 1000 
feet; @bout 5 me@eme hich, the main Sgcending branches *rising 
from below the middle; weed moderstely hard, dull white or 
nearly brown, towardea the center; bark gray, seSling in plates; 
leaves very coriaceous, descending, lucid, conduplicate on the 
upper side, lighter green benesth; erect inflorescence odor- 
less, axiliery or from separate short branchlets, yellowish 
except the brown purple @nthere; turning red and early falling; 
DSumP@guete, June, 1908, 
- * $9315, Uvarda rufa Bim, Glimbing “nd epr@rling over 
thickets skirting me®dows on dry recky ridges |t 1000 feet; 
branches widely spreSding, tough, covered with emooth brown 
park which ultimately becomes thinly checked; leaves dese end- 
ing, submewbranous, duller green above, margins wavy; flowers 
purple, odorless, their subtending bracts yellowish green; 
immature fruite 1/2 ineh leng, green, pubescent; Dumaguete, 
a 10324, Alpinia pyrapidata blm, Thies strict *flag- 
eter?” Zinger ber acese formilarge tussocks in stony dry grassy 
vidges @t 1000 feet; stems 1 to 3 meters hizh, less than 1 
‘neh thick towards the base, rather hard, green; levee gub- 
membrancus, Secending, in @lternating distichous rows, deeper 
green on the upper eurface, the sides strongly conduplicate 
-@F even folded upon the dorsi side, 3 te 5 inches Spart; 
inflorescence light green, f*intly but sweetly fragrant; the 
‘ovary @nd bud coroll® deep green; e@lyx whitish throughout; 
¢eroll® in anthesis “iso pale white; stemens 6nd pistil 
watery white; thé inner surface of the thick bracts %t the 
basey of the lower segment reddi mi; Dumaguete, June, 1908, 
10315, Uraria legopodiodes IC, , Perennial strict 
herbe from tough woody crowns,1 to 2 we high, chiefly 
‘few branched from netr the ground; atems terete, green, tough; 
Le®ves chartaceous, *ecending, sh@llewly ceurved upon the upper 
side, light green Above, much lighter or subglaucescent green 
beneath; inflorescence termin®l, single or in om®ll clusters, 
varying in length from 1 to 7 inches, turning gr®yieh brown 
and persistent, the slenderer spikes usu®lly curved; odorless 
flowers pink; minute seed compressed, blackish; in hard dry 
eeil of gtaesy ridges 4t 1000 feet; DBumaguete, June, 1906, 
$71 

