1106 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 59 
 cendingly spreading, white; filaments whitish; anthers brown- 
ish; style and stigma greenish. ‘‘Malagus’’ is the name given 
to it by the Bagobos. If I remember correctly the natives 
also called the large white flowered Drimys piperita Hook. by 
the same name. One must admit casual similarity in the 
two species representing widely different families. 
Represented by number 11435, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Rhododendron mindanaense Merr. 
Field-note: —A stunted erect shrub, 3 feet high, scattered 
with other dwarfed shrubs about the summit of mount Apo 
at 9950 feet; stems erect, few to several, sparingly branched; 
leaves rigidly coriaceous, copiously arranged in subwhorls, as- 
cending, paler green beneath; flowers pure white, rather large 
and showy, ascendingly scattered. The Bagobos call it ‘‘Ma- 
lagus." See note under the preceding. 
Represented by number 11383, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Rhododendron quadrasianum Vid. 
Field-note:—A stocky tree in a dense moss covered for- 
ested basin of Apo at 6500 feet near Baclayan, a cold and 
alpine camping place; wood hard and reddish toward the 
center, covered with brown shredded bark; leaves suberect, 
numerous, shining bright green above, much paler and punctate 
beneath; flowers not numerous, bright blood red, pendulous, 
0.5 inch long or longer, cylindric. ‘“‘Tongog’’ is the Bagobo 
name. 
Represented by number 11656, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Rhododendron spectabile Merr. 
Field-note:—An epiphyte in moss covered dry woods on 
-a ridge 7500 feet of mount Calelan; stems few, spreading, sub- 
deflexed, the tips suberect and green; twigs rather gnarly, ashy 
gray; leaves thickly coriaceous, dull dark green on the upper 
