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were nearly five inches long and three inches thick. 
In the town of Cabadbaran I collected for the first time 
Mangifera verticillata C. B. Rob. The mature fruit was yellowish 
7 in color, four inches long and two and one half inches thick, 
= cylindrically round, not flattened as our other mango fruits. 
Its large seed was similar in shape and quite fibrous, the threads 
ramifying throughout its doughy white meat. The foliage and 
Cerbera odallum-like fruits strongly reminds one of Apocynaceae. 
The forest flats contain a sufficient stand of Dipterocarps 
for a saw-mill. Some of these trees grow in alpine and sub- 
alpine regions. There were many of these splendid trees about 
our settlement and their flowers sweetly scented the entire 
country. Frutiferous trees appear reddish tinged. The bright- 
ly shining leaves on clear bright days have a soft glimmering 
effect. See Dr. Foxworthy’s report on the Dipterocarpaceae from 
the Agusan region in volume vr, article 97. 
In the higher altitudes while we were cutting trail 
- and blazing trees, we occasionally scented a sweet fresh 
cinnamon odor. When the bark of Cinnamomum mercadoi 
Vid. was newly cut its valotile odor at once filled the woods 
or forests, though the green bark had very little cinnamon 
taste. This odorous character of this same species was per- 
ceived in other ‘localities. The commercial mount Apo 
Cinnamomum mindanaense Elm. produces a very stringent first 
class bark which however has no volatile odor. When the 
writer was in the Mount Apo region in 1909 he collected 
several sacks of bark of the latter species for the Bureau 
of Science which made a very favorable report on it. At 
the same time I also brought up to Manila two dozen small 
seedlings in bamboo tubes, all of which have died except 
one which now measures fifteen feet high and has a stem 
eight inches thick near the ground. It stands in the Cervan- 
tes garden of this city. 
In the scarcity of huckle berries or blue berries Mount 
Urdaneta is like Mount Calelan, a sister mountain of Mount 
Apo. No doubt the rocky summit of Mount Hilong-hilong 
harbors plenty of them, and in that respect is similar to 
the rocky Mount Apo summit region. 
In the Surigao Peninsula are more Nepenthes species or 
pitcher plants than in any other single locality of our archipel- 
