dark purplish brown when old; style reddish, terminated. by 
5 recurved stigma segments; Dumaguete, March, 1908. 
9562. Villebrunea frutescens £1m, Small tree, 5 
meters or more high; branches spreading, numerous, xe the 
ultimate slender and half drooping; bark rather smooth, cons- 
picuously grayish white; wood moderately soft, reddish toward 
the heert-wood; leaves spreading, flat, quite thin and easily 
breaking; midrib reddish beneath onlyy fruits along the branch- 
lets, soft, snow-berry white except the greenish central seed 
portion; along emall creeks at 2500 feet; "Suno-aglafg, " 
Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9563, Pieus odorata (Sleo,) Merr. Small trees in 
Yavines along dry creeks at 2500 feet; bark smooth, gray 
and brown mottled; wood soft, whitish; leaves exceedingly 
variable in size, flat except the slightly recurved tips, 
descending, usually arranged in distichous rows; equally 
hispid on both sides, paler beneath, the nerves whitish; 
fige very hispid even with stinging hairs, along the twigs 
and in the leaf axile, yellowish red; "Ago-sahes," ~- figs 
sometimes 1 1/2 inches in diameter, soft when mature, the 
umbiliesl scales forming a conspicuous rosette excrescence; 
meat yellowish white; flowers red; the leaves are gathered 
by the natives, dried in the sun and used by them for scour- 
ing and polishing purposes, Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9564, Cyrpteronis paniculata Blm, A Yather gnerly 
. appearing tree, 10 metere high in ravines along dry creeks 
at 2600 feet; wood hard, burly, yellowish; bark duil brown, 
that on the old stems sesling in large plates; leaves sub- 
coriaceous, yellowish green beneath, shining green on the 
upper side, descending, conduplicate on the upper side, mar-~ 
gine undulate, with recurved tips; inflorescence green, lax, 
pendulous; “Ulayan." Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9565, Centroetemms multiflora Been, Bpiphytic upon 
living tree trunke 1 meter from the ground and overhanging 
streams; stems lax, greenish, descending, speringly branched, 
the tips usually suberect, with 9 milky jhice; leaves sub- 
coriaceous, descending, dark dull green on the upper side, 
much lighter beneath, only gradually recurved; inflorescence 
terminal, upon a green 1 to 2 inches long descending peduncle; 
pedicels light green or yellowish suberect in the bud state; 
flowers pale creamy whkte mxa white except the strongly invo- 
lute recurved segments of the outer floral psrte; anthers 
Chocolate brown; "Tigbud," - The outer floral parts are not 
reflexed and are of light green in the bud state; Dumaguete, 
9566, Conocephalus acuminatus Tréel. A tall tree 
@limber along a stream at 2500 feet; stems rather tough, 
numerously branched, brown, the ultimate branches half © 
drooping; leaves only slightly conduplicate on the upper 

