10693. Aleurites moluceane Willd. Erect tree 
mostly seattered along the steep wooded slopes of the 
Sibulan and Beruring rivers from 2000 te 6000 feet; 
trunk 1 to 4S feet in diameter, round, S30 to 60 feet high, 
branched from the middle; branches divaricate, rather 
jong snd widely spreading, rebranched above the middle, 
forming a rather flattish erown; twigs suberect, few, 
thiek: wood very white, soft and dry fibrous, throughout, 
light, odorless and tasteless; bark comparatively thiek, 
brown or grayish b#own when young, lenticelled, or densely 
and thinly checked longitudinally, grey when old; leaf 
petioles sprecding from the ends of the twigs; yellowish 
brown, terete and flexible; blades mostly descending, 
eondiuplicate on the upper lueid green surfece, the young 
ones covered with o yellowish gray powder (which gives 
the tree from a distance a very pronounced appearances), 
peler green beneath, mergins wavy, the main nerves yellow- 
ish ereen; inflorescence termine] (althougn the young 
brenches sheet out from below it) yellowish aray inelud ing 
the galyees; 
otherwise; anthers light yellow; the short filaments 
and pistil whitish; infrnutescence 6 inches te a foot or 
moxe long, upon 1/2 ineh thick woody brown stalks; nuts 
irregularly globose or somewhat flattened, hard, green, 2 
to 3 inches in diemeter. "Hiaou.” fodeya, June, 1909. 
10895. “inosporn merrilliena Dielos scandent 
vines in or over thickets elong the Sibulen river at 
S000 feet; stema twining, the size of an ordinary lead 
peneil, tercte, yellowish, lentieellec; leaves coriaceous, 
darker ereen on the upper eurfece; petioles ascending, 
quite ricid and twisted at the base, terete, green, the 
bledes @eptiyodescending; infrutesdence in the leat exile 
or @long the stems, upon 6 inches long slender terete 
green pendulous peduncles; fruite creenieh yellow, sub- 
Slobese, 1/3 inch thiek, "Keri;" Todaya, June, 190% 
10896. ##fPollia philippinensis Films Ssucenlent herbs 
eeattering in very moist fertile sei] aleng the Sibulen 
river et 3000 feet: stem branched near the cround and 
reclining, 1/2 inck thick, round, taking root at the nodes, 
ultimately erect; leeves tewerts the top only, #scendingly 
apreedinge, tins recurved margins wavy, lignter green 
beneath, the sheath minutely purplisn spotted ond sea- 
brid; infloreseent spike erect, 3 inches long, ®t least 
l inch thick, wetery, subtended by folieceous bracts; 
flowers cGorless, the calyx greenish, the petels white 
ae ere the filaments; anthers bright yellew; berries 
derk blue; “Talimbengung;" fodaye, dumm, 1909. 

