drooping, branched every foot or two, the rachis yellowieh 
green; pinnae flat, distichously apreading; pinnules light 
shining green above, glaucescent green beneath, membranous; 
"Lag Som; Todays, September, 1909, 
11605, Aeanthophora seandens “err. Sprawiling amongst 
thickes of dense growth in fertile moist soil of an open 
slope at 3250 feet: etem terete, 1 inch thick, covered with 
thin brownish bark and provided with sharp spines, very 
sparingly branched, the upper leaf bearing portion green, 
but quite 20 thick; lesves alternating, 1 foot apart (more 
or less), horizontally epreading or descending, 211 the 
atalks greenish brown, provided with recurved hooks especial- 
ly alone the lower side; petiole 1 foot Jone or longer; 
sheath 3 inches long, fully 1/2 inch deep, adnate to the 
upper portion of the peduncle, and clasping the stem, smooth, 
turning brownish; leaves proper 3 to & feet long, triangular. 
in outline; leaflets horizontally reeurved, sumembranous 
on the upper shining somewhat deeper green surface; “Simbar"; 
inflorescence similarly spresding as the leaves but much 
_ @ghorter and terwinating the stems; Todaya, September, 
1909. 
. 12606, Hmbelia vhilippinensie oc, A woody climber 
and overtopping jungles of thickets or small trees in moist 
soil of rather open grave lands at 32650 feet; etem terete, 
1 to 2 inches thick, gray, minutely checked, comparatively 
thick end reddish brovn beneath the skin; wood flexible, 
whitish, porous, odorless and tasteless; twigs slender and 
nalf dreoping, dark green, covered with brown lenticells; . 
leaves thickly coriaceous, horizontal, tips elichtly recurved, 
shallowly conduplicate on the darker green surface; inflores- 
cence ascending or drooping, greenish, except the yellow 
anthers; yellowish 5 petale and brown stigmas; odorless, 
"Balace-0;" ‘Todays, September, 1909. 
11607. Garex rafflesians seaberrima (Boeck.) Kuk. 
Large rather denee tufte in moist fertile soil of light 
woods at 3600 fest: stems sseendingly recurved, 5 feet long, 
shining green; lesvee chiefly ecsuline, strongly recurved, 
vich deep green on the upper deeply grooved, surface, paler 
@reen beneath, smooth and submembranous, very many 9nd mostiy 
_ @pising from near the base of the etem; panicle slenderly 
elongated, half drooping, green except the brewn bracts; 
*Tamalang;" Todaya, September, 1909. 
- 21608, Aralia apoensis “lm. nm. sp. Small treea-like 
shrub, 20 feet high with « 6 inches thick stem, in light 
woods of fertile rather moist soil at 3500 feet; soft wood 
delicately white, odorless and tasteless; bark brown, very 
thinly checked, beset with sharp somewhat flettened spines; 
branches few, ascending and forming » flettiegh crown; twigs 
guberect, greenish brown, 1 1/2 ineh thick, beset with 
brown sharp spines; leaves divarieste, 3 to 5 feet long; - 
the petiole 1 foot jong, much thickened at the base; rachis 
strongly nedulose at the jointe; reddish slong the upper 
side; leaflets descending, shallowly conduplieate on the 

