side, lighter green beneath, eubchartadfeous, the upper ones 
with gYeen tubular axillaw oracts; infle rescence chiefly 
axillary or in the axils of the fallen leaves yellowish 
white or oeccaslonally with a slight tinge of pink in the 
bud state; the greenish scoop shaped b meta soon falling; 
flowers with a strong very sweet fragrance, *}'anbalalod, ™ 
Dumaguete, Marth, 1908, 
9568, Cissus geniculata Bim, & Leese climber upon 
jungles ot hanging along large tree trunks more or less 
covered with other climbers; stems smooth, 1/2 inch thick, 
brown, soft and flexible; leaves submembranous, nearly 
flas or only gradually recurved, veiny on both sides, their 
green petioles usually suberect; infrutescence pendulous 
from the lesf axila, green, somewhat shorter than the fo- 
lisge; berries less than 1/2 inch in diameter, both ends 
sonewnat equally flattened, 2-seeded, shining with a royale 
and” cherry a@olor, very juicy, with a sweet potatoe like 
flavor *Datufig, * flower erect; calyx and very deciduous 
4 petale dark green; ovary disk yellow; style and stamens 
Lighter yellow; wvumaguete, Mamh, 1906, 
9569, Jtoxylum indicum Linn, Rather crooked or 
broken up trees, 7 meters high, in hemp region at 2000 
feet; bark lenticeied, gw grayish white; wood seft, dull 
white; b mnches spreading, greenish; leaves repestedly 
compound very widely sp mading, nodose at the point of branch- 
ing, ultimate petioles ascending; lesflets dark grem above, 
much paler beneath, membranous, tips recurved, ths upper 
side conduplicately curved; f mits blieck, pendulous, ter- 
winal, vubfaleate, & inches wide, 1/2 inch thick, 1 meter 
long, from stout 3 to 5 inches long pedicels; the spics ate 
infratescence atout 1 meter iong also; “Daliwac," Dumtin 
guete, Kamh, 1908, 
9570, Sigitarla consanguinea Gaud, in rich alluvial 
overflowe of the shvet at 25:0 feet; suall loose 
tufts, with short thick nodulous connecting rootstocks; 
stems weak, reclining; leaves soft, equally scabrous on 
beth sides, flat, thin, persistent even in the dry state, 
Tae entire plant well intermingles with other decumbent 
heros; “salili,* Dumaguete, Mamh, 1908, 
9571, Cynara satmentosa DC, Gcandeant or foraing 
tangled bushes in climbing jungles, along the Bunyao “iver 
at 2500 feet; old stens soft, tough, green under the thin 
yellowish skamay skimx gkin, 1/2 inch thick} leaves ¢oria- 
ceouc, fiat, prler green beneath ; flowers with wa a faint 
rather anpleasant odor; shex the hesal so rtiea of the inve- 
luc re green, othewige deep purple; corolla at first yellow 
but goon turming te the same color; th same change from 
igaon to dark purple occurs in the exerted portion of the 
Gtigmas; "lagoaoy, ” Vumsguete, March, 1908, 

