succulent; bude erect, of the same color; outer floral parte 
much reflexed in snthesie, brownieh red, finely spotted; 
broad petal thinly fringed ot the 2 lateral margins, yellow 
except the pinkish upper surface; lower segment thick, of 
the same proportionate colors; “balayon,." Dumaguete, 
April, 1906, 
9578,  Alpinia rufa (Presl) K. Sch, Small tufte in 
rish humus covered soil at 4000 feet; rather small tufte; 
stems thickened at the base, otherwise only 1/4 of an inch 
thick, green, mote or less strongly recurved; leaves soft, 
membranous, paler beneath, flat but with recurved tips, 
ascending, the lower ones smaller; inflorescence terminal, 
few shortly branched, subtended by dried bracts; flowers 
erect, white; berries also erect, globose, soft and red 
when watute; meat white, fibrous, containing several angular 
brown seeds; “*Lahai." Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9579, Lepidogyne longifolia blm, Strict succulent 
hero in moist woods at 4000 feet; reots flexible, less than 
1/2 inch thick, succulent, Covered with « brown matrix of 
fine short hairs; leaves ascending, strict, succulent, 
dark green eppecially ax on the upper side, their midnerve 
prominent beneath, caniculate sbove; stems strict, 1 inch 
kx thick, succulent, terete, green as sre also the bracts; 
inflorescence a 2 inches thick and 2 feet long spike, upon 
& 1 meter long stem; bracts of flowers ascending, greenish 
brown ineurved; pedicels of the same color, erect, twisted; 
@uter floral parts similerly colored, only its lower segments 
recurved, but which close up my after anthesis; upper corolla 
segment dull reddish brown, the lower one whitish; “Palaypoi, “ 
Dumaguete, Kstelkys ERURX April, 1908, 
: 9580. Clethra lancifolia Turcez, Small erect tree, 
6 meters high, in woods at 4000 feet; wood reddish, moderate- 
ly =p soft; bark smooth, yellowish gray, sesling in plates 
when old; branches crookedly spreading; leaves subcoriaceous, 
flat, much paler green beneath, epreading; inflorescence 
terminal, the 3 to 5 or ever 7 unequal spikes spreading,” 
shuxS tu Sxmx suberect; flowers white, 
early falling, usually arranged on the lower or outer side J 
of the spikes; "Alibungog." Dumaguete, Mareh, 1906, 
9562, Ophiorrhisa harrisiana Heyn, Herbaceous, in 
moist humus covered soil of woods at 4000 feet; stems smooth, 
ereen; leaves membranous, flat, dark velvety green above, 
yellowish green beneath; inflorescence light green, the 
Capsules dark green; "Malemsla, " wtet Mareh, 1906, 
9583, Gynotroches axillaris Bim; free, 10 meters 
high, on ridge of the woods at 4000 feet; bark hard, mottled; 
dull white wood moderately hard; twigs quite slender, green- 
ish: leaves descending, nearly flat, coriaceous, very lucid 
dark green above, yellowish green beneath; flowers in 
small sessile axillary clusters, descending, miux sf odor- 

