41966. Mimvecpe elengi jinn, Medium sised tree in 
ary woods of the hilis back of Digos at 590 feet; bark uxy 
dull brown, coarsely checked branches above the middle, 
vather widely Spreading and iaxiy rebrenchea; twigs suberect; 
leaves horizontel mostly conduplicate on the upper shining 
deeper green surface, tips recurved; fruits eliipeeid, less 
than 1/2 ineh long, upon green recurved pedivels arising 
fron the leaf axils; calyx pereistent; fruits yellowish 
when metvurd. godaye, Gotober, 1900. 
11967.  ‘ivistena rotundifolia microcarpe Beoc, “Balla.” 
Slender tree in rich eeil of wooled flat e few allies west of 
Digos; trunk 6 inches thick, 45 feet high, eveniy ringed from 
bottom to top, grayish white; leaves crowded at the tep, the 
outer (aundex?} ones hanging, the upper ones erect, the middie 
ones horizontal; petiole 3 to 6 feet long, recurved, tho 
bevel pertien much expended, the margins densely provided 
with a brown matrix of ebredded fibers, trienguleriy fletiened, 
the edges smooth except the basal portion above the expanded 
base; blades horizontal, 3 to 6 geet aoreoss, the free segments 
hanging; infruteseence axiliery from the basal leaves, the 
stalk 6 feet long, strongly recurved, covered with brown 
sheath-like bracts, somewhat Tlettened toward the base, 
especially ou the upper side 1 1/2 inches wide; brenches 
scattered every 6 inches, slternete; the longer basal ones 
s foct leone el] branches yoliowish; fruits 1/2 inch in 
diemeter, globose, hard end shining vermiilion ved, ultinately 
turning darker ved ox nearly black; leaves circular, strongly 
plicate below the middle, pale or subslausescentiy green 
beneath, echaxtaceous.  Yodaya, May, 190% 
11968.  weterospaths elete SchefZ,  “Selaniog." 
Slender tree 65 feet high, with an 8 ineh thick stem, in 
fertile moist soil of a wooded filet a few miles west of 
Diges; the outer portion of the wood heré and with dvil 
brown vesgele, the immer or central portion pithy =& and 
strewn with fibers; berk gmooth, rings ohecure, grayish 
white or mottled, streight and terete stems; ieaves several, 
sprouding, horizontally reeurved, 6 to 10 feet long, leaflet 
bearing nearly to the base; petiole 1 to & feet long, flattened 
S inches wide, the upper-edges rather sharp, the basal 1 1/2 
foot much expanded and previded with Stipular shresded sheaths, 
infrutescence arising from the lowermoat leef axils, & to 5 
fect long, recurved, broadly ond paniculately branched from 
below the middle; pedunele proper 2 feet long in the larger 
ones, conspieuows, 3 inches wide et the base, covered wi the 
® green rigid eheath-like brect; “11 the steLke pale or 
grayish white; young fruit green, then turning to a shining 
death white color, vltimately red, globose, between 1/8 and 
1/2 inch in diameter; the terminal portioa of the leaf much 
yecurved and twisted as in cocea-nut leaves; leeflets recurved. 
ex drooping, tough, Slightly peler green beneeth, rather 
fiattened towerd the pase, trianguler toward the epou, 
fodaya, May, 190% 
41969. Celemus mollis Bleo. “Arite" 4 rather small 
jungle climber in dry woods st 500 feet several miles north 
of Diges; o1d etems greenish brown, lees than 1/8 inch thiek, 
more or covered with dry persistent sheaths; leafy 
portion 3/4 inch thick, dark green; leaves ka alternating, 10 
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