

leaves coriaceous, flat, rigid, ascending, yellowish green 
beneath in the younger ones, dull deep green above; inflores- - 
cence from the branches, ascending, light green, rigid and 
quite brittle; flowers creamy white, with light yellow anthers 
and greenish ovary, sweetly fragrant, quite rigid, easily 
presking and faliing; wood easily cutting, odorless, red, 
except the thin sap wood; bark brown to gray, reddish beneath 
the skin, bleeding with a yellowish guumy 8p; Dumaguete, 
Apri}, i906. 
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9838, Macarangs sylvatica Elm, 4. Sp. frees, in 
damp woods at 4000 feet; the & feet thick stem branched 
from below the middle, rather crookedly branched, the branche 
lets forming 3 more or less evenly ehaded crown; wood rather 
soft, whitish except the reddish heart-wood, odorless; 
park mottled; coriaceous lesves slightly conduplicate on the 
upper side and with umowré recutved tips, shining dark green 
above, paler beneath; flowering stalks greenish, ascending, 
sparingly branched; grouped sessile flowers odorless, early 
falling, their perianths deep red filaments much psler, 
enthers also reddish before anthesis; Dumaguete, April, 
1908, 
9839. Pagraes negrosensis film,, m, Sp. Seandent 
woody climber in moist woods at 4000 feet: stems soft, 1 
to @ xu inches thick, or the old ones nearly twice as 
thick; bark yellowish, smoothish; twigs not numerous, sub- 
erect; leaves flat except the short recurved tips, spreading 
or ascending, very coriaceous, equally gmooth on both sides, 
dull green above, lighter beneath; petioles also green, with 
conspicuous thick green and ¢clasping bases; Dumaguete, 
April, 1906. 
9841,  Trichomones gemmatum J, 5m. on the basal 
portion of moss covered tree trunks or scattered over the 
ground covered with mosses and scale-mosses, rootstocks quite 
wiry, tema the sparse pranches widely ramifying; stipes 
usually suberect and recurved, father rigid; fronds dry 
and soft, recurved, of @ peculiar dark green; ever ywhere 
about the erator; Dumaguete, April, 1906. 
9842, Carex graeffeana boecki. Large tufte in damp 
ground covered with coarse herbaceous plants, of gteep 
mountain side at 4000 feet; etems recii @ or more properly 
recurved towards the ends, green, smooth, sharply triangular; 
foliage strongly recurved and spreading, several from the 
pagal portion of the culm, dark green, glaucescent beneath ; 
spikes aecending oF gubpendulous, dark green, perfectly 
strict and terete; Dumaguete, April, 1906. 
9843, - Zingiber sylvaticum Hlm,, 4. SP. in damp 
earth of herbaceous thickets on sa steep slope at 4250 feet; 
stems several from ke the same root atrongly recurved oF 

