11652, Calamus siphonospathus Mart. A lefty tree 
Climber in heavy forests at 4000 feet; stem looping, 1 1/2 
inches thick, smooth, hard green, the leafy portion 3 inches 
thick at least: leaves seattered alternatingly, ascendinely 
or horizontally recurved, & feet long or less, terminated 
by a hooked rachis; petiole 2 feet long or lenger, sub} 
flattened, 1 inch wide at the base, densely covered with 
spines on beth sides; rachis triangular or more flattened 
beneath, and also more spinescent; lesflets submembranéus, 
similarly green on both sides but more spinulose on the 
upper surface, horizontally xmm~e recurved; spines varying 
on the sheaths from 1/2 to 11/2 inehes long, dull gray, 
flattened, arranged in obliavué rows, their bases yellowish; 
inflorescence 3 to 5 feet long, ite sheaths green and emooth; 
branchlets recurved, smooth and green, ¢raduelly reduced — 
toward the apex; “Obanoban"; fruits seid to be nearly 
mature; Todays, May, Mery 1909. 
11653, Fomes pachydermue Ures. n. sp. On dead 
timbers lying upon wet moes covered soil of dense woods 
at 6000 feet of mount Apo; horizontal, sessile or upon 
short thick stalke, hard emooth and nearly biack on the 
upper side, beneath brownish: “Kolot;" Toedaya, September, 
1909, 
116684, sandanue basani “art. n. @p. Tree from 10 
to 15 feet high with a 5 inches thick etem, on dry soil of 
a wooded ridge at 4600 feet nesr the Vainit creek; stem 
yellowish ringed, with blunt spines, short branched toward 
the top only; leave 6 feet lonz, densely clustered at the 
tep, recurved, light g@reen above, somewhat paler beneath, 
deeply grooved on the upper side below the middle; peduncle 
from the upper most leaf mxw axils, 11/2 foot long, 
recurved; fruit @x cluster hanging, usually with 3 heads, 
each subtended by marcescent bracts; turning reddigh or 
bright yellow when mature, “Bareaui;” Todaya, September, 
1909. 
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11655. Sabia reticulata ‘tlm. Voody wiry tree 
climber in dense humid forests at 4000 feet; etemea round, 
smooth, brown, tough, branched and surg sprewling over 
the limbs of trees of medium size; leaves coriaceous, 
descending, strongly reeurved tovard the tips, shining 
dark green above, psler beneath; inflorescence ase ending, 
green, the small odorless flowers paler green; “Bungsi;* 
Todays, September, 1909. 
11656. MNnedodendron gquedrasianum Vid. A stoeky 
tree in a dense mose covered forested basin of Apo at 6500 
feet near Laclayan, the camping place: wood hard reddish 
toward the center, covered with brown shredded bark; leaves 
guberect, numerous, shining bright green above, much paler 
and punctate beneath; flowers not numerous, bright blood 
red, pendulous, 1/2 inch long or longer, cylindric; “Tongog.* 
Todaya, September, 1909, 
11657. Dryopteris adenophora ©. Chr, Todays, 
September, 1909, 
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