rigidly coriaceous, divariecate, flat, dark green above, 
glaucegently green beneath; fruits m tly clustered slong 
the twigs; calyx yellowish green, stalked toward the base, 
obovoid, entirely enclosing the nuts; “Mabara-an,” 
Todaya, Auly, 1909. 
11248. Quercus benettii Ming. Tree 40 feet high in 
forested ridge at 3250 feet of mount Burebid; stem 2 1/2 feet 
thick, branched fmm from the middle into main ascending branches 
whose branchlets are widely spreading; wood hard brownish, 
cdorless, slightly bitter; bark brown; on the branches gray, | 
minutely checked, and covered with whitish e¢elored lenticels 
or excresesences; twigs bendable, sseending, numerous, compa» 
ratively short and forming rather dense masses; inflorescence 
pale cresmy yellow, ascending; leaves coriaceous, smooth and 
glabrous on both sides, ascending with strongly recurved 
tips, conduplicate on the .pper dark green surface, subglauces- 
cently green beneath; ultimate twigs gereen; "Ulayan,” 
Todayan, duly, 1909, 
11249, Medinilla merrilliii Mim. n. sp. ipipytie 
shrub, on tree trunks 15 feet from the ground, on «= forested 
ridge at 3250 feet of mount Burebid; stems few or several ( 
5 feet long, (apparently it eclimbes from the ground up and 
gives vise to several branched steme) 1 1/2 inch thiek; wood 
reddish toward the center, rather soft, odorless ond tasteless; 
bark @rayish brown, thinly checked; branchlets lax, with 
ascendingly curved tips; leaves from ascending petioles, 
horizontally spreading, thickly coriaceous, dull dark green 
above, much lighter beneath, flat or only the tips slightly 
recurved; inflorescence from the branches, uvon @ inches 
long red peduncle, pendulous; stalks light pink; calyx petals, 
filamente and style of the same color; anther bases light 
yellow, the horne bluish purple; "Cayaupang;" Todaya, July, 
1909. 
11250, Cyathes atropurpures Copel. Small tree-ferns 
in fertile soil of moist forests slong 9 ridge at 3500 feet 
of mount 3 stem 6 to 9 feet high, 2 inches thick; 
stipe bases 1/2 ineh thick and cleaving slong the apical 
portion of the stem, persistent; fronds 5 to 7 feet long, 
horizontally recurved; rachis and rachille seurfy brown 
niong the upper side; pinnese flat, much reduced toward the 
base but extending elear to it; auite common along the 
forested ridge: "Noteng;" Todays, Tuly, 1909. 
11261. Vaceinium mearneli Bim. n. sp. Stunted 
trees 25 feet high with 1 1/2 foot thick stem, on forested 
moist ridge at 3250 feet of mount Burebid; stem mose covered; 
wood hard, reddish, odorless and tasteless; branches widely 
spreading at the top, rigid, ultimately numerously rebranched, 
gray; the rigid coriaceout leawes flat, secending, much . 
darker and shining green on the upper eide; inflorescent 
spike green, erect, the eubpendulous crimson red corolls 
tapering; expoosed twigs reddish; "“Manrolibae;” Todays, 
August, 1909, ; 

