| 975% Garyota gee po Loig, Strict, 5 to 8 ms 
high treea, in the hemp region ené umelly in the pest 
of native huts (en indiestion of its being planted); stems 
about 6 inches thick, round, pe ronan vinged every 
6 0 6 inches oy less in the olf tress, dull gray; lenves 
@ivaricate, seattered, Sm. long, 1 1/2 m wide seress the 
middle; sheath ebout 1 foot long, ye- iowieh, 4 inches wide, 
tightly ¢lasping the stem, its margine lecercting into : 
brown persistent shreds enciraling the stem; lesflets | 
heavy, Pigid, eseily broeking, pendulous, peler or sobgleucous 
aveen beneath, reduced toward the apex snd bace but equally 
geatvtering throughont; rachis rigid, triangular, greenish 
white beneath; infruteasence several from the upper most 
leat axils; ite 3 inches thick aSeneer reourved peduncle 
entirely clothed by thick peraletent breets which ere green 
on the outer surfeee and yeliowish on the inaer one, about 2 feet 
in length (miliiene of black ants moke their homes anongst | 
the bracts which are strongly imbriente and apperently alit 
open on the lower eide ped | infrutescence ® dense round 
luster 2 te & feet long end nearly 48 thick; fruits 
yellow red te nearly bleek, sacoth and puxrfectly glebose; 
"Yeticen.*: Dumaguete, April, 1906. 
: (9758, Cassie fistale Linn, Tree, sbout 16 ms ! 
high, in open places of the hemp region at BOOO feet or lower 
down; stems 8 to 8 feet thick, branched from below the 
mi@dles; the branches widely spreeding, rather crooked; 014 
bark brown, peeling inte thiek irregular pletea, thet on the 
branches smooth end yellewlsh; leaves chartasesus, the deseend+ 
ing rachis yellowish green, the leaflets @uil deep green 
ou the upper side, glaucous green beneath; fruits or pode . 
upon 1 foot Aens aperingly branched peniclea, ususlly arising 
from short leafless branchlets of the Lerger branches, terete, 
1/8 inch thick, herd and smooth, brown te nearly black when 
ripe, 6 inches to a foot emi one halt in length; seeds hard, 
yellowich white, Migten yg partitions of seeds thin, nearly 
bleek with s brown vieeid fiuid, odor strongly reminding one 
of monkey oxorement; very sweetly fragrant flowers; pétals 
Pe ot lemon color; filemente and pistil greenish; berk 
thiek, brittle, reddish beneath the opidermie; wood quite 
hard, oferless, the sep wooed 2 inches thick and whitieh, 
otherwise more reddish; “Bitenla,”  Dumeguete, April, 1908, 
9959,  Mengizers inddeal linn. ares, 18 me high, 
in hemp fields at 2000 feet; stems % feet diameter; bark 
avayisn or mottled, rather smocth and hard; tht on the 
old atems rough, rather thick ani tough, yollow benes th 
the skin; wood moderately herd, white, with » fa&nt greenish 
odor, burly; branches rigid, the ultimate ones forming dense 
bushes, forming an elongated b apo toped dense crown; 
leaves apreading, recurved ani eurvingly sonduplicate on the 
apper side, subcorieceous, very mnooth on both sides, equally 
dark green on both surfaces; inflorescence erect or Bub- 
erest, yellowish, chiefly confined to certain branches only 
end rather wefase or abundant; “Pegho,"~flowers 
deciduous; ‘Gorclla light eream color sbove the reflexed 

