less; calyx light green; delicate corolls whitish, stamens 
ane pistils greenish white; "Talingan," The wood has 
vey pronounced radial rows but the concentric lines are 
obselete; Dumaguete, Mareh, 1906, 
9584, Gordonis welbournei flm, nm. ap. Large tree, 
30 to 50 meters high, in forests at 4250 feet; trunk rather 
straight, 1 meter thick; branches spreading; the ultimate 
one rather short, crooked, rigid and forming mote or less 
bushes; bark thick, sealing in plates, conspicuously red 
beneath the epidermis; wood hard, somewhat burly, the out- 
side (sapwood) whitish portion comparatively very thin, the 
balance reddish, with a faint sweet sappy odor; leaves 
descendingly recurved, rather stiff, coriaceous, dark green 
above, lighter beneath, smooth on both sides; the petiole 
and the midrib occasionally reddish; flowers 1 to 3, terminal 
or the lower one from the uppermost leaf axil, thick stout 
petiole strongly recurved: bude globose; the persistent 
calyx green toward the base and reddish towsrd the apex, 
flat when in anthesis; flowers 2 to 3 inches s¢ross; the 
fixka 5 rotately epreading petale light creamy white, deci- 
duous se 4 whele; stamens numerous, pereistent upon the 
base of the corolla; the filaments yellowish, their anthers 
very Light yellow, pistil greenish; immature fruits, green, 
1 ineh long, etrict and linear, 5-sided; "“Tagelumboy, ” 
Dumeguete, arch, 1908, 
9685, Cyrtandra tayabensis lm, in moist woods at 
4260 feet, scandent upon emall trees and forming loose 
tangled bushes from 3 to 5 meters from the ground; stems 
and branches sparingly rebranched, the branchlets subdeflexed; 
wood soft, green, watery and easily snapping; bark yellowish: 
leaves spreading, coriaceous, flat, dark green above, much 
lighter beneath, the petiole and midrib frequently reddish; 
Oalyx green; pedicel reddish; corolla strongly recurved 
from below the middle, 1 inch in length, of @ dull brick 
red throughout, much constricted below the middle; immature 
fruite green, ascending; “Ling nato-boto," Dumaguete, 
March, 1908, 
9586, Lasianthus phyllanthoides Slm,, n. sp. Lax 
speringly branched undershrub in moist woods at 4250 feet; 
stems and main branches terete, smooth, green; leaves spread- 
ing, subwembranous, lucid green above, flat, paler beneath; 
mature berry obovoid, 1/3 inch long, slightly less in dia- 
meter near the top, smooth, watery, with a dark nearly black 
peeht with 4 whitish seeds; “Bungai.* Dumaguete, Merch, 
1908, 
9587, Hoya odorata Schitr, Seandent rope like or 
liana like climber, slong tree trunks at 4000 feet; stems 
3/4 inch thick, round, flexible, covered with yellowish 
bark; branches not numerous, divaricately branched occasional- 
ly near the stem, slender, descending, greenish and with a 
milky sap; leaves also descending, flat, rather thin, lucid, 
darker green above; fruits mostly terminal, smooth, green, 
terete, hanging; Dumagete, March, 1908. 

