becomes slmost an agu‘e blue, When they lie on the thesants 
quickly devour the greenish fleshy coat, and after the nut 
Graéks open gradually from the apex into 3 earpels these 
sane small antes devour the white ham and bitter kernel, 
The outer meafly fleshy coat is sourish and not unpleasant 
#t all; Sumeaguete, Hawh, 1908, 
9653. Dinoechles seandens (Bim,) Kuntz. A subsean- 
dent looping ehrub, on edges of steep ravines at 3600 feet; 
stem ham nearly solid, smooth, green 1 inch thick, with 
nodes 1 to 2 feet apart (the old portion of the stem with 
@ $mell tube which contains in the joints near the & round 
good drinking water); ultimate branmhes compa ratively. 
shot, several fom the same joint; leaves subcoriaceous 
or rather chartaceous, ve ty smooth on both sides, vich 
gveen; inflorescence upon 1 meter long leafless b ranches; 
the flowers irmegularly glomemte; spikelete small, green, 
sessile, ovoid; “Balogeoaw is" Dumaguete, Mareh, 1908, 
9554, Pithecolobium ellipticum (Slm,) Hassk, 
oh rubs or sometimes amall trees, 5 meters high in light 
woods and ravines of the hemp region at 2000 feet: wood 
moderately hani, whitish; bark smooth, light gray; leaves 
chartaceous, lucid om the upper surface, much lighter 
beneath, subpendulous; inflorescence termminsl, the green 
sparingly rebranched branches flexible and easily wilting; 
flower buds slightly =» vasty brown, the stemens yellow~} 
ish; the corolla creamy white, ae¢licate, soon wkkke wither. 
ing and deciduous; gre n pode much flattened and st rongly 
recurved, smooth; "Salang-cogi, ® Dumaguete, Mewh, 1908, 
9555, Arth@rophyllum seblanense im, Spe ringly 
branched trees, 6 meters high, in hemp field ridges *% 
$000 feet; stems 1 foot thick, white, soft, with a lame 
pith (the pith of a brench 3 inches in diameter immediate- 
ly benesth the foliage is one half composed of pith); 
bark yellowish; leaves crowded at the top, 3 to 6 fest 
Long, #preading; the leaf stalks much thickened at the 
base, leaving wnen falling \=——— shaped sexrs, no- 
dese at the leaf ineertions; leaflets submemb ranous, lu} 
Gid dark geen above, paler beneath, st rongly sonduplicate 
on the upper side; inf mteecence f mm the upper lesf axils, 
usually exceeding the leaves a trifle, the 1 inch thick 
peduncle often with small foliaceous lesvee ag do also 
the secondary peduncles of the 1 1/2 feet wide decompound 
umbel; fnaite shining green, with a duller green circular 
cap! "Binlayon;" Dumaguete, Hamwh, 1906, 
9556, Piper coninum #1, A numerously branshed 
Climber, with thin lex gwen flexible stems whigh usually 
form tangled messes or bushes a few meters sbov: @ round; 
leaves subcoriaceous, descending, flat, dull green above, 
mu¢h lighter green beneath; inf mtescence stalk and rachis 
gteen (the later usually curved) leaf opposed, hanging; 
nutlets smooth, yellowish brown, upon short greenish pe- — 
dicels, ellipsoid, of a strong peppery flavor; "“Suyo-buyog. * 
Dumaguete, bareh, 1908, 

