11753.  Cardiopteryx moluceansa Sin. Climbing lofty 
trees in very humid forests at 4000 feet; branched: slender, 
hanging, terete, smooth, inclined to twine; petiole emooth 
and grden, sscendingly curved from the base, goft, succulent; 
blades descending, shallowly conduplicate on the upper side, 
tips abruptly recurved, deep green above, much paler or yellow. 
ish green benenth, leathery; laflorescence axillary, hanging 
Succulent and yellowish green throughout, 1 or 2% or even 3 
atalke from the aame place, from 6 te 16 inehes long; 
"Gurisan;”  Todaya, September, 1909. 
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11754. Cissus sadnate Roxb. Climbing and sprawling 
over the tope of high trees in humid forests at 4000 feet; 
branches slender, freely rebranched, eubterete, greenish or 
turning brown; leaves horizontal or descending, flat or only 
shallowly conduplicate on the upper side, dull green above, 
yellowish so beneath, the prominent nerves densely covered 
with brown hairs; infruteseence ascending, the fruite turning 
with age dull wine red; “Linga-en;" ‘Todaya, September, 1909. 
11755, Handia umbellata “im. Seandent upon medium 
sized trees in a very humid forested flat at 4000 feet; 
stem 1 inch thick, terete: wood white, tough, odorless and 
tasteless; bark smooth, grayish or some mottled with brown; 
branchlets slender and forming more or less tangled Masses; 
leaves thinly coriaceous, descending, shallowly curved on 
the upper much deeper green surface, recurved at the tip; 
infruteeecence ascendingly seattered, upon short brown lignesus 
freely branched clustered tubercles; pedicells green, the 
wm globose fruits ehiny, green and turning to lemon yellow 
when fully mature; “Aysayis;" Todaya, September, 1909, 
11756, Calamus elmerianus Bece. n. 8p. A fine loope 
ing and seandent climber, in dense jungle# on a lightly 
wooded ridge, at 3750 feet near the Baruring river joins 
the SColen creek; stem toward the base green, hard, emooth, 
the thickness of an ordinary lead pencil or at least no 
more than 1/2 inch thick, soon however covered with the 
rather thick dry and persietent sheaths; lesves alternating- 
ly seattered, slong the upper half length of the stem, 10 
inchee apart ascendingly recurved, about 3 feet lone, termi- 
nated by 2 hooked 2 feet long rachis; leaflets strongly 
recurved from the ascending bassl portions, tough and papy- 
raceous, similarly deep or dark green on both sides, shining 
on the lower or concave, surface, the uppermost ones more 
distantly seattering, more crowded and extending clear to 
the base, the basal and spiesl ones somewhat reduced; rachia 
subterete, 1/2 ineh thick at the base, dull green, straight 
spiny on the upper side below the middle, beneath the spines 
are recurved except the 1 inch Longe middle-like ones toward 
the bage; sheaths solidly enclosing the 1 inch thick stem, 
@laucescent green, its 4/4 inch long, greenish yellow spines 
evenly sesttered and somewhat flattened toward the base; 
infrutescenoe srising obliquely opposite the leaf and « 
trifle below it, at least 3 feet long, recurved, 2 
vebranched, the green sheathe somewhat flattened and epinu- 
lowe; msin branch 6 inches long, distichously branched, 211 
the stalks and eslyx light green; the larger fruits are said 
to be nearly mature; “Gamanid;" Todaye, May, 1909. 

