
9541, Vaccinium halconense Merr, Smell tree, 6 meters 
high, 2t the summit or 6uG0 feet; wood whitish, hard; berk 
brown, smooth; branches very rigid; leaves ascending, also 
rigid, with reddish petioles, dull green on the upper side, 
pale or yellowish green on the umder side; infrutescence 
spicate, terminal or from the upper leaf axile, mostly aseend- 
ing; berries usually recurved upon their pedicels, smooth, 
green, becoming brown, globose, lees than 1/2 inch in diameter; 
"Yagonumenag dake; " Dumaguete, Merch, 1908, 
9542, Cyrtandrs antoniana Elm., n. sp. Suberect and re- 
clining shrubs in the jungles at the top at GO0U feet; wood 
soft, yellowish, with a large pith; bark yellowish, that on 
the old stems becoming thinly checked; branches rather long, 
not numerously febranched, heavy, watery, crooked, their ends 
usually Se suberect and béaring the leaves; foliage flat, 
epreading, variable in size, succulent and quite stiff, dark 
green above, much paler beneath, the upper surfsee only minute- 
ly pepiliese; inflorescence pendulous from the leaf axils, 1 
to S-flowered; peduncle proper pubescent and green; pedicels 
purplish and smooth; bracts pele green, rather soft; corollas 
dark crimson red of purple, deciduous, 1 inch aeross at the 
throat, exceedingly pretty from beneath; green ax calyx more 
rigid than the breets; buds very amex conspicuous and bead 
shaped at the apex, even derker green than the corolla; style 
of the same color, stigma greenish; filsments also purple; 
fruits shining pale purple; “Handulumoeg, " Dumaguete, March, 
9543, Podochilus malindangense Ames, Upon moss covered 
ead tree trunks at 6000 feet or at the summit; stema 1 to 3 
from the same root, descending, green, quite flexible; leaves 
ascending, quite thin, darker green above, slightly recurved 
end strongly twisted at the bage: inflorescence descending, 
‘the floral bracts green; flowers subpendulous, soft, s2ure 
blue especially the terminal portions of the various paris; 
“palaas-gagmai.* Dumaguete, Kmmaky IMG8 April, 1908. 
9544, Burya @uriculata Blm,, n, sp. Tree 3 to §& 
meters high, rather common in woods at 5000 feet; wood whit- 
ish, tough, covered with brown quite smooth bark; young leaves 
reddish, older ones rigid, derk green above, yellowish green 
beneath; flowers white, ususlly az asaendtig ascending from 
the leaf axils; anthers deep yellow; “Bunod-bunod-ihalas, * 
Dumaguete, Mareh, 1908. 
9545, Alyxia monilifere Vid. A wiry climbing shrub 
in woods at 5000 feet; wood whitish tough; bark smoothish, 
brown or grayish, green beneath the skin, with 9 milky sap: 
leaves coriaceous, dull deep green above, lighter green 
beneath, smooth, flat or only the tips slightly recurved; xm 
infrutescence in the leaf axils, the individual fruite green- 
ish yellow: "Dalagit-balagung, * Dumaguete, Mareh, 1908, 

