inchea apart, horizontal, recurved toward the tip, 3 toe 5 
feet long; petiole 6 inches long, compressed, less than 1/2 
inch wide, spinescent on the sides and especially beneath: 
rachis triangular from below the middle, provided with sharp 
recurved hooks beneath; leaflets cracefully recurved, char- 
taceous, similarly green on both sides, flat except at the 
constricted base, spinescent on the margins and along the 
midvein on both sides; sheaths beset with 1 inch long usually 
grayish brown spines, (those on the mum margins of the sheath 
especially piimerous, od twice a9 long, erect or so and 
flattened); flagella arisin from the side of the leaf, 
strongly recurved, slender, a8 lone a9 the leaves, »rbsent 
from the uppermost leaves, terete, the lower side provided 
with hooked black spines; infrutescence srising from the 
gide of the uppermost leaves ageendingly recurved, nearly 
as long as the leaves; branch comparatively short and 
seattering, its sheaths spinese mt, fruite 1/3 to 1/2 imh 
thick, globose, pale white; Todays, Vay, 1909. 
11971. Ficus altissima fim. Tall tree in deep _ 
forests along the comst toward Digos. Todaya, Oetober, 
11972, Piper puberulinodum °C. DC, n. sp. Vanies 
(Piper). Climbing upon large or small trees at 2500 feet; 
stem 4 inches thick or lese in the amaller ones, tightly 
cleaving to its support, nodulose, densely covered with 
blunt tubercles, yellowish grey; branchlets green, smooth, 
numerously rebranched; leaves coriaceous, deseending, folded 
upon the upper lucid green surface, much paler green benesth; 
fruits upon recurved 1 inch long green peduncle arising 
opposite. lenves, 1 to 2 inches long, cylindric or mere or 
less subnodulose, 1/3 to 1/2 ineh seross, olive green; 
Todaya, October, 1909, 
11974, fugenia mindansensis ©, B. Rob, A tree with 
widely spreading branches in fertile soil of open places 
at 2750 feet; fruits edible, frugose, 1 inch long, much cone 
stricted toward the base, white or oocasionally red: "Tabia;" 
Tedeya, October, 1909, 
11975. Phaseolus lunatue Linn. "Suri."  Todaya, 
Oetober, 1909. 
(No description) 
11976, Pieus prlawanense “err. "“Acob." Not a large 
but widely spreading tree in woods near the sea-coast at 
Daron: branches gray, smooth; leaves rigidly coriaceous, 
flat except the recurved tipe, shining green s#e the upper 
side, slightly paler beneath: figs solitary or in paire 
from the leaf axils, hard, deep red, subtended by rigid 
bracts: Todaya, September, 1909, 
11977. Couthovis celebios Koord, "Tanalak, ” 
Gnarly tree, 18 feet high, in or near breckish water along 
the coast: leaves thinly coriaceous, shining, fist, diverse 
in size, somewhat paler benesth: bark gray and more ar Less 
shreaded; infruteseence subpendulous, the stalks ereesnish, 
the pyriform fruite deep vermiliion red: Todays, October, 
1908, 
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