9953. Beeceures tetyveandra (Beill.) Meell. Arg. 
tree, 7 mse high, in woods of steep ravines at £000 
feet; wood etorless, moderstely hard, dirty yellowish wh ite 
throughout; bark rather finely end deeply checked longi tu- 
9954, lMichelis @imingii m, ani R Large tree on 
edge of a deep ravine et PEO feet; about 20 m, high 
with o 8 feet thick stem; mein brenches widely spreeding 
from the middle, the ultimete branches mimerous eni form 
ing €ense bushes; bark smooth, greyish white mottled; wood 
den smemtaae lerd, bitter to taste, of a bitteriech green 
ttermut oder; ileeves fiat, spreading, quite rigid, dark 
green above, mush lighter ond duller green benesth; flowers 
tightly surrounded by e leathery brown pubeseent brect 
whieh seen dries ani fella; very frezrant, the outer 4 
perianth seguenta spreading an@ with recurved tipa, light 
@reemy white except the purplich banes, susenient, ligula te; 
the inner whoRl of en equal nember of segnents erect, & 
trifle encller; similer in eolor, texture ané shape; ste- 
mens numerous, with purplish beses end brown tips; everies 
elusterea in 8 ameil head, upen © chert etelk, yellow! sh 
green; pistil brown; frnits ascending in contiguous 
heeds, the exoecearp green and with light brown lenticela, 
very th each leeelled, with severe] ovules but only one 
or two of them develope inte stone like seeie; *Hingdang";- 
geed coat & redéioh with a milky white bitter juice; 
Dumaguete, “pril, 1908. 
9965,  ‘%ehefflere eimplicifolie Merr, An epiphyte, 
in humid wind swept ridges at 3500 feet; stems auny from 
the same cluster, terete, 3/4 inch thiok, pliable and tough, 
@hcooth and gray, 1 to 2 mm» high, sparingly branched, 
spreading, reenrved or gubpendulons; the ultimate thiek 
beanches enbereot et the enda; o8 with an “Araliceeous" 
edor; leaf petioles ereet, greeny leaves vary thick, fiat 
but with slightly reourved tipa, dark green above, much 
paler benesth, horisentally spreading; infleresacence 
@leo apresding, auberest, ites peduncles enii pedicels bhecom- 
ing re@dish; Flowers ereonich yellow, of the wme odor ae 
the wood anf bark; the corelle seguenta redieally spreading 
end becoming brown when 014; stamens erect, anthers yellow; 
stigme deeper green; “Teguime"; Dumaguete, Sey, 1996, 
9986.  Mechilus clementis “err. ree, 1° ms 
_ high or higher on wind swept ridges at 3780 Teet; wood yol~ 
lowish; bark gray, mottled; branches crooked, else rigid, 
the comparatively short brenchlets rather numerous, plieble; 
gubeorizesous leaves eseendingly reeurved, conduplicsate on 
the upper aide, glensescent beneath; infratescent stalks 

