10868, Piper umbelletun glabrum 0, Di, Solitary 
or in elueters in very fertile soil of herbaceous thickets 
in damp places at 3000 feet; stems ascending, occasionally 
branched, nodulose every 10 inches 1 ineh thick, yellow- 
ish green, lenticelled, 3 to 7 feet high; leaves scattered 
along the upper portion ef the stems, Limp, the basal portion 
deeply sunken on the upper side, the mergins lopping or 
wevy, benesth much peler green; petioles whitish green, 
gubterete, grooved on the upper side toward the base; inf lo- 
rescence axillery, upon light gteen strict terete pedancles 
and pedicels, when 014 turning grayish green; “Cuyoke" 
fodeya, June, 1909. 
10864,  Meloohte indies (Houtt.) Gray. Small 
tree 15 feet high with en 6 inch thick «stem, in very 
fertile moist sell of cogon grass end other shrubberies 
at S0cO feet; epreading branches forming a round topped 
crown; twigs slightly escending, quite slender; wood 
murky white, eoft, oderless and tasteless, light; leaves 
membranous, epreeding, the younger ones grayish green 
end con@uplieate on the upper side; the petidles yellow~ 
ish sreen, terete; etalke of infl@rescence and cel yx 
yellowish green; corolle segments light pink, rotately 
aprending, deep red in the throet; filements also pink; 
pistil yellowish; ereet capsules green, deeply S-ridged; - 
bork eseily pealing, greenish beneath the grayish brown 
reer, pack epidermis; "“Colegto," Todays, dune, 
L909. 
: 10665. “yphelephus moluceanuse (Blm.) Mig, 
Shrub 10 to 15 fect high in rich woil of light woode 
mixed with cogeon gress et S000 feet; stems round a few 
te several inches thiek; wood soft, watery, dirty white 
with a lerge green phth, areenish in odor, tasteless; 
berk greenish gray, minutely lenticelled longi tué inelly 
easily stripping, green benesth the epidermia; ‘twigs 
slenéer, recurved and ascending, greyish green, obscurely 
angular, leaves horixonteliy spreading, flat, chertaccous, 
deep green above, glaucous or whitish go beneath; dense 
sessile inflorescence green or the stigmee appearing 
somewhat whitish in color; interaxillery brects green; 
"selebugense"  Todayn, June, B909, - 
1LOB66. Quereus pruinesa Bim, Erect tree in 
open erases lends et 3000 feet, north of the Sibulen 
river; stem straight, round, 40 feet high, 1 1/2 foot 
thick, branched above the middle; branches spreeding, 
numerously rebranshed toward the ends; petioles thick, 
umwardly curved; leaves horizontally spreading or 
Slightly descending, shellowly conduplic ate on the upper 
dull green surface, recurved especially toward the apex, 
greyish green benesxth, the veins yellowish; inflorescence 
erect, yellowish, With the reguler oak" o@ors The young 
leeves subtending the branchlets yehlowish green; bark 
mottled, reddish béneath the epidermis; wood moderately 
heavy and herd, whitish and streaked with dull brown 
vewsels, odorless and tasteless; “Vlayan,.” Sodaya, 
June * 1909, , 

