1884 Lraflets of Philippine Botamy [Vol. V, Art. 94 



Not 0. oblongifolia DC. nor its more distant relative 0. 



caespitulosa Elm. 



Ophiorrhiza pubescens Elm. 



Field-note: — ^Low and soft herbs; stem few inches long, 

 solitary or few from the same fibrous roots, terete, soft in 

 texture, atropurpureus; leaves flat and horizontal, soft mem- 

 branous, much lighter or sulphureously ligbt green; infrutescence 

 erect, green, also soft in texture. 



Represented by number 1403B, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt, 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 



In wet soil usually about rocks partly covered with humus 

 of a densely wooded ravine along the Catangan creek at 3500 

 feet altitude. This quite characteristic species is only rarely 

 found and then only in small quantity. "Paladnamamoc" 

 is the Manobo name. 



PAEDEREA Linn. 

 Paederia verticillata Blm. 



Field-note: — Scandent and sprawling; stem terete, crook- 

 ed, 2 inches thick, frequently rebranched toward the top; 

 wood soft, acrid, arranged in few large concentric zones; bark 

 sraoothish, yellowish, thin; green twigs very slender and tough; 

 leaves in verticels of 3 or 4, coriaceous, ascending from 

 the petioles, recurved, deeper green on the upper flat sur- 

 face, apex recurved; inflorescence a foot to a yard long, recurved 

 from the ends of the larger branches; calyx red, buds very 

 dark velvety red, corolla atropurpureus on the outside, the 

 inner side w^hiiish and hairy; anthers yellow. 



Represented by number 13843, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, .July, 1912. 



Climbing upon and covering shruberries and jungled woods 

 along the Catangan creek at 1250 feet altitude and in rather 

 wet gravelly soil. "Libog" is the Manobo name. 



