ting, with @ sappy green odor; leaves membranous, nearly 
eguslly green on beth sides, with recurved tips, upper sur- 
face conduplicate; inflorescence scattering; the pedicels 
and persistent calyx green; corellis snow white: very similar 
to some species of western United States Prunus. "Tago binlod;" 
Dumaguete, March, 1908. 
9516, Anowpeanex philippinensis Harms, Low ground 
shrubs, 1 to 2 meters high, in good soil of damp woods at 
3750 feet, upon a ridge: o14 stems 1 inch thick, terete, cover-~ 
ed with thinly checked grayish bark; wood soft, with a large 
pith, a®alia odor; leaves coriaceous, dark shining green above, 
p@ler beneath, 3 mm to 6 inches apart, alternste, leaving 
conspicuous rings after falling; mr gam petioles suberect, 
green, clasping the stem at the base; younger leaves only 
trifoliate; inflorescence opposite the uppermost leaf (some- 
times opposite the second and third leaf also); peduncles 
terete, almost at right angles to the stem, 6 inches long; 
brecte, secondery peduncles, pedicels aleo green; flowers 
greenish white, odorless; "Binlacusy” - mature fruite 1 inch 
leng, nearly as wide (9 trifle wider below the middle, its 
sides shallowly grooved, the color of ripe black prunes, ma 
aimost odorless, the meat rather dry; drupes 2, flattened, 
hard, pithy; pyrenes quite hard, smooth, more flattened, — 
br own; Dumaguete, March, 1908. 
9517. EBvodia obtusa Merr. Slender trees 6 metere 
high in weeds at 3750 feet; bark mottled, smooth, green beneath 
the epidermis; wood soft, easily cutting, white throughout, 
with a sour dough odor; leaves strongly conduplicate upon the 
upper surface and recurved, lucid, darker green above, sub- 
corisceous; ascending; inflorescence green, with the same 
odor ae the wood; the petals soon withering end turning brown, 
subpersistent; "Panampsy;* Dumaguete, March, 1908. 
9516. Cyrtandra pallida Blm., n. sp. Lax undershrub, 
1, 2 to 3 meters high, quite commonly met at 3 to 4 thousand 
feet, in damp woods; wood soft, sappy, easily breaking; bark 
smooth, yellowish, soon turning brown when cut, ultimately 
thinly checked longitudinally; leaves nearly flat, soft, _ 
much paler green benesth; young infrutesecence greenish yellow; 
the individual fruits pendulous, net juicy, with numerous 
minute Seeds, "“Halau-hauy. " Dumaguete, March, 1908. 
9522, Heriiiinar i Cuernosense Gim., nm. sp. Climbing 
upon or rather creeping upon moss covered inclined tree trunks 
at 3250 feet; stems green wiry; leaves subpendulous, very 
thick and fleshy, slightly but gradually curved, with rather 
sharp edges, dark green above, yellowish green beneath; flowers 
in emall clusters either subsessile or upon elongated stalks, 
mostly from the leaf axils, suberect, cardinal red, gradual 
tubular toward the base, straight exeept towards the apex, 
yellowish red within, the 2 kwmm lateral lobes reflexed; 
calyx short, also red; Dumaguete, March, 1908, 

