«£20682, Wedelie biflers nm, Rank herbde in very 
éaap fertile soil at 1760 feet, forming tangled masses; 
atem 1 inch thick, freely branched free the base, recline 
ing, yellowish green, more or lees fluted; branches gub« 
erect, quite slender ; inflorese ence from the uppermost 
Leaf axils, suberect’ or erect, pele green; flowere oderiless, 
Lignt yeliew; ®chenes and eheff like se®les or papene 
green; le@ves more or Less drooping, derker green above, 
gubmembrenous, these on the eteme “nd larger branches 
Large; "Lager on; ad Tedays, July @ 2909, 
11063, MWMyrieties plumeriifelia Bim, nm, sp, 
Slender tree 3% feet hig: or higher with ® 1 foot thiek 
etem in dry woods Slieng the edge of the Baracaten ravines 
at 2000 feet; wood moderately herd end brittie, white 
with yellowigh streake, rather light, oderlees end taste. 
lese; bark emoothieh or roughened with mail lenticells, 
yellowigh red beneath the epidermis, freely bleeding with 
the e@me solered juice; brenches from the middie end 
forming @n elongsted crown, not numerously rebranched 
aug rather slender; heavy rigid leaves deseunding or 
pendulous, nearly filet, very deep dull green Sbove, 
beneath yellowish brown; @xiblery inflorescence upon 
S-ferked and divergent tubercles; petals thick, yellow- 
ish green on the B&x inner side; stamens of © gsimiler 
Gelor except the dark red later®] lines and apex; . 
"Lage;" fruits on another tree were seen to be Shout 
2 inches leng: Todaya, July, 1909. 
(211064, Desmodium ermocerpoides DO. Suffrutescent 
ang forming patches in dry woods on & ridge of the 
barecatan creek at 2000 feet; stems inclined “nd branched 
from the bage, 2 feet high, the base] portion brown, 
othetwise green: branches toward the top few, @ecending; 
Letves submembranous, horizentaliy spreSding and with 
@lightly recurved tips, gleucescent bene®th, dark greet 
above with lighter green blotches through the middle 
region of the two sides; inflorescence Secending, green- 
ish exeept the ereamy white divarieste odorless flowers; 
pode green, usu®*lly curved and descending, much flattened, 
esh@liowly constricted, 3 inches long: “C@lepickid;* 
Tedaya, July, 1909, 
31065, Piper davaoense ©. HM,  Geandent upon 
an@ll tree trunks and forming loose hanging bushes, in 
ary woods @long ® ridge of the Barseaten creek |t 1750 
feet; stem flexible, the sise of 4 wan's finger, greyish 
green mottled, quite crooked and nodulose; branches 
freely rebranched end foraing tangled bushes, green: 
leaves brighter 9nd deeper green on the upper surface, 
herizontal or slightly recurved and descending; coriaceous; 
infrutescence 4ark green, Fg in ® twisting and 
curved manner, leaf opposed; “Menieatapei;*  Tedeya, 
duly, 1909. 

