umbilicus minute, sunken, circular; fruits in smali clus- 
tera from the leaf axile chiefly but also from the axils 
of fallen leaves along the twigs; "Pili-na-balagon," 
Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9690, Alstonia parvifolia err, Tree, 15 meio 
high, in woods along a crest at 3500 feet; stems 1 foot 
thick, with smoothing mottled bark; wood quite hard, pale 
white or somewhat yellowish, odorless; branchlets sub- 
erect, usually in subwhorle ae ate also the leaves; leaves 
BE smooth and leathery, spreading, nesrly flat, deeper 
green above, with conspicuously whitish veins; flowere 
creamy white except, the greenish tubular base; faintly 
fragrant; stalks and calyx green as sre algo the buds; 
hanging fruits green, smooth, terete, hard, nearly 1 foot in 
mptet length; "Linog," - sap milky. Dumaguete, April, 
1908, 
s6e1, Agathis philippinense Warb, Young branch es 
smooth, herd and green, subverticellately rebranched; 
leaves very lucid green on both sides, the upper surface 
of a deeper bottle green, gradually reeurved, leathery, with 
a strong pitchy odor when bruised; Very large tree, with 
gtraight 6 feet thick boles; main branches arising from 
about the middle, ascending, ultimate branches rather nu- 
merous and forming buehes st the ends of the secondery . 
branches; old bark 1 inch thick, reddish beneath the epi- 
dermis and full me of pitch pores, the outer surfece gray 
and sesling in comparatively thin irregular plates; wood 
whitish to reddish towards the center, light, moderately 
herd and tough; Dumaguete, April, 1906. 
9692. Freycinetia negrosensis err. Tree climber, 
in woods at 4000 feet; branches quite numerous slong the 
stem, rather slender, drooping, with tips suberect; stems 
1 1/2 inch thick, smoothish, gray, ringed; leaves defnse- 
ly crowded towards the ends of the ultimate branches; 
leaves shining, dull ereen, slenderly recurved, tough 
and flexible, slightly paler beneath, (the leaves have 
from a distance a dull glaucous appearence); infrutes- 
cent bracts much exceeded by the foliage leaves, the 
outer ones yellowish green with brown margins and eentr al 
portion while their tips are green; the inner ones entire- 
ly light yellow except the purplish brown tips; the 3 
erect staminate spikes also yellowish, soft but not wet, 
exceeded by nearly 211 the bracts, of a strong gwect mo- 
lasses hike odor or that of certain candies *Pandan-ma- 
gamai.” Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
9695, Bria cywbiformis J. J. Sm. Large clump 
upon lower limbs of large trees slong 2 ridge at 3500 
feet; the small individual tuftlets ensiformly flattened; 
the connecting rootstecks hard and fibrous; leaves solid- 
ly ensiforwly imbricate, erect toward the base and ¢ ondu+- 
plicate.on the upper side, the upper half gracefully re- 
gurved, very coriaceous and smooth, duller and paler 
beneath; the green infrutescent spikes shorter than 
the foliage, from the leaf axils, strongly recurved; . 
*"Palaypai,” Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
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