2382 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arrt. 112 
ago. On the limbs of lofty trees on Duros and Cawilanan Peaks 
was revollected the epiphytic Nepenthes truncata McFarl. only 
recently discovered, published and so far only known from 
the Surigao region. It is by far the largest pitcher plant 
in the Philippines and rivals Nepenthes Rajah Hook. f. of Borneo. 
The leaf blade is truncate at both ends, the larger ones are 
one and one half feet long by eight inches wide. The lar- 
ger pitchers are equally as large. 
Along the Minusuang River and along the smaller streams 
up to 1500 feet altitude is a big and stately species of 
Eugenia. It has exceedingly hard burly wood, and since it is 
comm nly known by the natives as binacag I have adopted 
that specific name for the species in the preceding article of 
this publication. 
Of the fifty or more of Philippine Selaginella species, 
that of Selaginella magnifica Warb. is by far the prettiest 
and should prove a great success in tropical gardens and 
in green houses of more northern climates. It is only 
known from eastern Mindanao, and near Bayabas it formed 
dense knee deep masses in wet compact reddish soil along 
streamlets in the forests at 750 feet above sea level. 
ln discussing the food stuffs of the Manobos at Bayabas 
I made mention of lumbia. This food is the dry mealy 
sago extracted and washed out of the pulp of stems of an 
ivory nut palm. It is packed in pointed rolled up sheaths 
of palm leaves, and is imported from the upper Agusan river 
region where that sago producing palm is said to be com- 
mon in the half swampy lake borders. The flour is placed in a 
frying pan or iron vat over a hot fire. After a very little 
water is added it forms conglutinated masses which the natives 
relish very much, either hot or cold. I have come to like it 
myself with a little cream and sugar. In the vicinity of Mount 
Apo I have collected an ivory nut palm or lumbia as the Ba- 
gobos also called it, and of it have brought up to Manila for 
the Bureau of Science several jars of its mealy flour. Although 
the nuts of the Apo and the Agusan species are practically 
the same, the sheathes of the Apo palm are beset with nu- 
merous long spines, while those in the Agusan region are 
smooth. I failed to collect specimens of the Agusan plant 
which does not exist as far north as Cabadbaran, but I have seen 
