9537, Medinills cengesta Merr, Subecandent and fo m- 
ing rigid bushes in humid woode at 4500 feet; branches c rook- 
ed, easily breaking, with rugose yellowish ¢ ray, bark; leaves 
horizontally spreading flat, only slightly recu eved, Leathe ry, 
dark green above, much lighter green beneath and with brown 
hairs; axillary hairs ashy gray; inflorescence pendulous, ei-+ 
ther te minal orf wm the axile of the leaves; the flexible 
pba ofp ft bragte and pedicels blood red; the floral bract 
ight pink or in the young state neatly white; bude and co- 
rolla segments dark pues purple red, the cotmlla base pale 
white; filaments pink, the bases of the anthers yellow, the 
homs azure blue; the floral bract persistent in the fruit 
and tuming to a dead bleed wd; bervies soft, dark indigo 
blue when fully wipe, with many minute whitish secede; "Ya+ 
gomyon-balagon.” Dumaguete, Maxreh, 1908, 
95368, Viburnum sinuatum Me rr, Sh mb or small erect 
tree 3 mete m high wk on wind swept ridce at 4600 feet; wood 
whitish, very tough; bax smooth, brown; lesves submemb ra- 
nous, lighter green beneath, descending, st mngly condupli- 
cate upon the upper side; inflo wescence with = st mng sweet 
odor, pure white when in full anthesis, greenish yellow in 
the bud state; young fruits flattened; "Tiga-na-balegon;” . 
ripe fmites nearly globose, 1/3 inch thick, dare wine red, 
shining, and delicately spotted, juicy, sour, with = single 
flat, stone; Dumaguete, March, 1906, 
9639, Alpinisa mussefolia “Wdl., n, sp. Rank and 
about 6 meters high in rich soil of woods at 4000 feet; 
stems 2 to 3 in & bunch, 5 inches thick at the bage, amooth, 
the younger portion green; lesvee 4 to 7 feet long, 12 to 
18 inches acres, 3 te 5 to a stem, in 2 rows, 5 to 7 ine 
ches apart, aecending, their sides henging like a banana 
leaf, dark geen above, much paler beneath, rather thin; 
the petiole a few inches leng only, its sheath tightly clasp- 
ing the stem; rechis yellowish, very conspicuous beneath, 
strongly grooved on the upper side, yellowish inf ratescence 
teminal, spicate, 2 feet long net including the 1 feet long 
mak 3/4 inch thick peduncle; f mits hani, shining green, 
nearly globose, 1/2 inch thick, with numerous yellowish 
seeds; "Lunbao,* = Plowers pale white, succulent, sube rect, 
deciduous with the gteenish calyx out of strongly imbrieate 
scaly brown pemistent base; Dumaguete, Mamh, 1908, 
9540, Vae cinium mindorense “endl, Creeping sh mbes, 
the erect brenches from a few inches to 6 inches tal1, upon 
moss cove red inclining tree trunks densely covered with mosses 
BBB and their allies: etems round, modermtely rigid for the 
size, rather tough, cove wd with amooth b wwn bs k; leaves 
thick, shining, paler beneath; flowem 1 to 3 clustered, 
terminal or axille ty, pendulous; the pedicels and ealyx 
green or frequently reddish; corella less than 1/2 inch long, 
C@mpenulate stiff, dark ve million red on the shining out- 
ecsgide, the minute 5 segments much paler med on their in- 
ner surfaces; rare; at 6,000 feet orupon the summit only; 
*“Licop-licopg-iholas, " Dumacuete, Mawh, 1908, 

