ultimate brenchlete slender, drooping, green; leaves ecorisceous, 
deep green above, yellowish so benesth, flat or concave on the 
upper side, upon ascending terete petioles; inflorescence 
ascending, green; infrutescence siso green, the young fruite 
winged end ridged slong the pm soe sidee, 1/2 inch long. 
"Sepumati;" Todays, duly, 1909. 
11173. Spilanthes acmelie iL. <A numerously brenched 
herd from 6 tuft of fibrous roots, in wet send gravelly soil 
along a stream near the Sibulan river at 2250 feet; branches 
repeatedly rebrenched from the bese, the ultimate ones erect; 
lesves eubmembrenous, divaricete or drooping, derk green 
above, much lighter green beneath; flowers light yellow except 
the green eslyx or involucre; "Beri." Todaya, July, 1909. 
11174. Piper apoanum C. DO. ne ape In dry soil of 
bamboo thickets et 2600 feet near the Sibulen river; stem 
flexible, terete, erocked, rather smooth, gray and brown 
mottled, branched; subseandent; brenchee green, diverieate; 
leaves gdeecending, the sides curved upon the gleneous lower 
surface, dull deep green above; infrutescence suberect, 
upon strict green wk peduncles; fruite shining yellowieh 
brown, eubglobose or subellipsoid; *Manika-tapey;" fodeya, 
daly, 1909. . 
11175. #Fetous pilosa Gaud. ‘Suffruteseent, 1 to 3 
feet high, in rich soil of open fielde near the Sibulan 
river st 1750 feet; atems strict, solitery or brenehed from 
the base, slender, emosth and yellowish brown; roots yellow; 
membranous leaves divaricstely spreading, a trifle paler 
beneath, elightly folded upon the upper eide; infrutescence 
ascending, green, the mt peduncles se well as the petioles 
reddich brown; stigmes whitish; seeds pale yellow; "Riweer;" 
Todayea, duly, 1909. 
11176. Slmeria eledophora (Berk.) Brea. On é@ead 
limbs lying upon well drained soil of dense woods on e very 
steep slopep of the Sibulan river at 1260 feet; quite flexible 
and dry; chalk or marl yellowieh white, forming continuous 
colonies, similar in color on both sides, the bagel portion 
inelineé to run or epresd on the under surfece; *Kolot;* 
fodaya, July, 1909. 
11177.  Fiene ademi Slm.e n» spe Large 75 feet high 
trees of fertile woods slong the Sibulen river at 2500 feet; 
main limbe arising from below the stem widely spreading, 
ultimetely numerously rebrenched; stem round, 4 1/2 feet in 
diemeter; wood coarsely grained, odorless and nearly taete- 
lese, not herd, quite brittle, whitish; bark 1 inch Bx thick 
yellowish gray, densely covered with large coarse lenticels, 
light yellow immedietely beneath the epidermie, brownieh 
otherwise, £ak contains a thin watery latex; leavers deseend- 
ing, folded upon the upper semilueid surface, much lighter - 
green beneath; figs ascending, mostly in pairs of the leaf 
exiis, 1/3 to 1/2 ineh thick, green, roughened with yellow- 
ish lenticels, umbilicus elosed yellow; the green peduncles 
more or less flattened, thickened and verrueose at the @istal 
end; "Ocob;" Todaya, July, 1909. 
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