only three in & cluster; leaves 2 to 4 inches apart, not 
different in shape toward the apex, but the lowest one ree 
duced to mere bracts, membranous, dark green above, muh 
paler benesth, flat, edges undulate, only the tips much 
recurved; young infrutescence speringly branched, about 
6 inches leng; berries subglobose, 3/8 inch long, smooth, 
green, conteining about 5 irregularly shaped seeds; *Tag- 
bac,” Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9632, Symploeoes confussa Brand, Tree, upon © ridge 
at 36500 feet, about 10 meters in height; bark hard, brittle, 
mottled and roughened with lerge wart like lenticels, gray 
on the branches, thick, the inner halff conspicuously yellow, 
the other portion reddish; wood yellowish, with a faint un- 
pleasant odor, rings not evident, quite hard; leaves coria- 
ceous, smooth, elightily curved upon the upper side, some- 
what glaucescent green beneath; flowers strongly and sweet. 
iy fragrent, pale white, soon falling and turning to a dull 
cream yellow or rather brown; anthers yellow, stigma green; 
Dumaguete, Mareh, 1908, 
96533, Polygaia venenosa Juss, Low lex shrub, with 
emappy ateme and greenish bark; the few branches recurved, 
much spreading quite slender; leaves submembranous, flat, 
dark green above, yellowish so beneath; inflorescence pen- 
duloue from the leaf axils; stalk mt and pedicels greenish; 
flowers whitish or often with s dull pinkish cast; pedicels 
of fruits erect or suberect, fruite indigo blue or pink 
purple, fiattened, conspicuously nerved, with 2 seeds “Hag- 
naya,” Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9634, Polystictus discipes Kerk, On desd nearly 
decayed limbs of woods at 3000 feet; dry, flexible, very 
_ tough, yellowish brown, streaked sbove, with a narrow light 
yellow mergin; Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9535, Schefflera paniculata Blm,., nm. ep. Se andent 
and forming rather leose bunches upon lower limbe of large 
trees at 4000 feet; old stems 1 inch, with a large pith, 
with a strong @ralisceous odor, covered with thin yellowish 
bark; branches sparingly branched, rather slender and half 
drooping; leaflets ascending, corisceous, equally green on 
both sides, only slightly conduplicate upon the upper side; 
infrutescence always terminal, yellowish green except the 
juicy dark wine colored drupes or berries; "Tagima-itom,;” 
Dumaguete, Mareh, 1908, 
9536, Lasianthus ¢clementis err, Lax, lax under. 
shrub on Fridge at 4000 feet; stems the size of . suall 
finger, very brittle, covered with greenish bark; leaves 
usually recurved, submembranous, shining above, duller be- 
neath; small flowers greenish white; berry or drupe ezure 
blue, juicy, with an unpleasant odor; "Handolumog,” 
Dumaguete, Mareh, 1908, 

