slender, green end smooth; leaves in whorls of 3, aseending 
from the dark green terete petioles, the blade eorisces us, 
deseendingly recurved, lucid derk green above, much paler or 
yellowish green beneath, only shallowly conduplieate on the 
upper surface; inflorescence euberect, arising from the exiles 
of the uppermost leaves, those toward the ends of the reeurved 
twige subdrooping, all the stalke greenish;; ealyx deep brown- 
igh red, as are slso the corolia buds; corolla tubuler, con- 
stricted at the base, 3/4 inch long, soft, dull red on the 
exterior, greenieh on the interior and covered with dense 
white matrix of heirs, the 5 segmente nearly straight; stemene 
inoluded, upon short green filemente, enthere creamy yellow, 
pistil not reaching the stemens, greenish especially the 
cleft stigma; ovary truncate, mx imbedded in the calyx; 
"Atoot-atoot, " Todeya, July, 1909. 
11154. Ficus sibulenenecie Elm. ne ep. bLerge tree, 
50 or more feet high, with e 3 feet thick stem, in dense 
woods along 4 streamlet near the Sibulen river at 1780 feet; 
main branches from the middle, more or lees aseending, ultimnete- 
ly numerously brenehed; wood odorless and tseteless; quite 
#o0ft, sappy white, with conepicuous concentric rings; bark 
smoothich, greyieh mottled, brown on the flexible twigs; 
petioles russet brown, upwardly curved; leaves coriageone, 
horizontal or deecending, eorinecous (mot rigid), deep green 
above, much lighter green beneath, the veine beneath covered | 
with a yellowieh fuszy pubeseence, shallowly eonduplicete on 
the upper eide, blunt apex slightly reeurved; figs solitery, 
in the exile of the leaves, upon short recurved green peduncles, 
green, rether emooth, in the early stagee covered with a eoft 
pulverulenee, globose, 3/4 ineh in diameter; "Depsean;" 
Todaya, July, 1909. 
11165. frewie ambigue lrr. A widely epresding tree 
26 feet high, slong wooded streamlets near the Sibulan river 
at 1750 feet; stem @ inchee thick; branches ehiefly towerd 
the top end forming @ brosd rather flat erown; wood white, 
soft, odorless and tastelees; bark brown, yellowish so on the 
branches; twige lax, and subdrooping, slender; leaves upon 
ascending petioles, the blade nearly flat, descending, dark 
green and subluciad above, much paler beneath, often shallowly 
eonduplicste and tips recurved; infrutescence axillary ascend- 
ingly drooping, stalke greenish; fruite globose, 1/2 inch 
thiek, pale yellowish green, ereesed on one side, "Cabantala;” 
Todeya, July, 1909. as 
11156. - Porresteria mollis “aesk. Oreeping end reclin- 
ing succulent herbe, on gravelly stream banke of dense woods 
near the Sibulen river at 1780 feet; stem 1/2 inch thick, only 
eperingly brenched, the ende erect or eubereot; coriaceous 
leaves divericately spreading, neerly flat or shallowly con- 
Guplicate toward the bese, the acuminate tips recurved; nodee 
purplish, the sheaths and margins of the basal portion of the 
blader bearded with yellowish hairs; roots slender, yellowish 
‘brown, erieing from the lower nodes; infrutescence in the 
axile of ax fallen leavers and slong the stem lying upon the 
ground, erect, purple, the seeds salmon color; "Selimbanun;” 
Todays, duly, 1909. 



