
as is elso the calyx rim, petals pure white, 1/2 inch long; 
filements also white; anther tips bluish white, yellow at 
their bases; "Cayaupong}” Todaya, July, 1909. 
11227,. Lucinsea involucrate Elm. ne sp. Seandent 
upon or along tree trunks of dense woods on ea dry ridge at 
$750 feet of mount ; stems numerously rebranchea, 
at most 1/2 inch thiek, round, bendable, the numerous branches 
rather short end forming * dense tangled m@ss about the stem, 
tips curvingly suberect; leaves thickly coriaceous, quite 
brittle when old, escending, nearly flat, shining derk green 
above, much paler beneath, the stipules dry end persistent; 
young infrutescence erect, pale green, subtended by rather 
thiek green breets; seeds numerous minute, brown, in a 
juiey meat; “Lingo-balagus;" fodaya, July, 1909. 
11229. Piper miniatum hirtellum ¢. DC. Seandent 
upon small trees in damp forests of a steep slope st 2500 
feet of mount Burebid; stem 1 ineh thiek, terete, greyish 
brown mottled, flexible, branched; branches forming se dense 
tangled mass st the top, slender, drooping, freely rebranched, 
terete, green, quite rigid; leaves subchartaceous, descond- 
ing, flat, dull green above, paler beneath; fruits terminal 
or leaf opposed, pendulous, up 1 to 2 inehes long terete 
green stelks; spike eleo terete, herd, quite smooth and — 
rigid, dark brick red; "Cabansal"; leaves used by the Bogobos 
the seme as the reguler "Buyo” leaves in chewing their 
"bpeetle-nutes.” fodeya, July, 1909. 
11221. Riveea sapoensis Slm. n. sp. A lofty tres 
@limber in dry foreste at 1500 feet; stems curved, branched 
elong the tree trunk, terste, 2 inches thick, flexible; 
wood soft, yellow, with a fetid odor and bitter teatef; 
with conspicuous concentric rings; bark thin, brown, finely 
checked longitudinally: branehes green, or yellowish green, 
slender, forming interlaced masses which hang with other | 
climbers along the tree trunk; inflorescence from the upper- 
most leaf axils, ascending, e11 the stalks, bracts end 
cealyees green; corolle whitish on the outside, pinkish blue 
on the inner, the 5 segments strongly sam rolled backward; 
stamens of a lighter blue or whitish; the style of the same 
color; globose stigms creamy white; leaves upon ascending 
green end terete petioles; blade usually condupliecate on 
the upper dark green sémilucid surface, much lighter green . 
or even purplish benesth, tips strongly reeurved; "Delumo- 
osip;" fodayé, July, 1909. a 
11232. Celtis luzonica Warb. Large tree in fertile 
soil of forests along @ streamlet at 1500 feet; stem 2 to 
4 fect in reseed 76 feet high, branched above the middle, 
terete and straight: bark yellowish or blotched with gray, 
smoothish; wood moderately hard, pale white throughout, odor- 
less end tasteless; Limbs erooked and widely spresadings 
twige short crooked and rigid, the terminal portion green; 
leaves coriaceous, upon sscendingly curved petioles, tips 
recurved, dark green upon the upper deeply curved surfece, 
much paler green beneath; infrutescence terminal, ascending, 
branched, yellowish green, stalks, 6 to 12 inches long, the 
branches widely spre@ding; fruits erect, dark green to 
yellowish, flesh red when falling, subglobose, or a trifle 
ellipsoidish, 1/2 ineh across, slightly longer; "Daloo;" 
Todaya, July, 1909. 
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