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titude or near the summit of Duros peak. "Talimaghat" 

 in Manobo. 



This is only a very small tree climber, reaching only 

 fifteen feet above ground, while 0. auriculata Elm. is a tall 

 tree climber with a wider sprawling habit. For the sake 

 of safe anchorage in the tall tree tops the twigs in the one 

 have formed rigid loops about their support. 



PHAEANTHUS H. et T. 

 Phaeanthus nig^rescens Elm. n. sp. 



Small tree; stem 15 cm- thick, 7 m. high, terete, bran- 

 ched from above the middle; wood soft, yellowish white, 

 odorless, slightly bitter; bark smooth, dark brown, the mid- 

 dle portion yellow, the inside of the same color as the 

 adjoining wood; main branches divaricate, slender, repeatedly 

 branched, only the young terminal portion strigose, light 

 lenticelled. Leaves alternatingly scattered along the branchlet?, 

 horizontal or subpendant, nearly flat except the sharp 

 abruptly acute to acuminate recurved apex, submenbranous, 

 very deep green above and appearing rugose, paler beneath, 

 glabrous, plumb black on both sides when dry, largest 

 blades 2 dm. long by 9 cm. at the middle or widest portion, 

 base broadly obtuse or obtusely rounded, oblongish or sub- 

 elliptic, frequently less than one half as large, entire margins 

 finely rugO'ie in the dry state; midvein also black, grooved 

 above, stout beneath; lateral nerves 7 to 10 on each side, 

 oblique, most strongly curved toward the faintly united tips, 

 also conspicuouB beneath, cross reticulations very fine and 

 obscure; petiole 1 cm- long or less, broadly grooved along 

 the upper side, sparsely strigose when young. Peduncle of 

 infrutescence 3 to 6 cm. long or longer, pendant, opposite 

 the leaves, brown or grayish, flexible, glabrous; receptacle 

 flatly globose, 5 to 8 mm. in diameter, with large scars, 

 the intervening spaces short hairy; fruits upon 2 cm. lorg 

 stipes, 1.5 cm. long, 1 cm. thick, bluntly apiculate, ob' 

 scurely creased along one side, tapering at the base, ellipsoid, 

 hard and green, turning luteus, then incarnatus and finally 

 shining black, all black in the dry state. 



Tyi>e specimen number 13727, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 



