
13269. Cryptocarye mindaneensis Elm. n. sp. A 
middle sized tree, 20 feet high, 8 inches thick, sub- 
terete, in red soil of e forested ridge at 1000 feet; 
wood soft, yellowish white, light, odorless and nearly 
tasteless; berkzk relatively thick, grayish brown, lenticel- 
led when old, yellowish on the inner side; branches 
spreading, freely rebranched, the twigs green, or yellow- 
ish green; fruiting stalks yellowish green; fruits short 
ellipsoid, shining dark green; leaves coriaceous, shining 
and darker green above, the conspicuous nerves yellowish 
beriecath. "Biaou" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, July, 1912. 
13270. Litehi philippinensis Radlk. Smell sized 
tree in fertile moist soil of a steep densely wooded ravine 
at 750 feet sititude; stem 1 1/2 feet thick; 40 feet high, 
branched toward tre top; buttressed at the base; branches 
crookedly rebranched, spreading; bark smoothish, mottled, 
latericious except the epidermia; wood odorless and taste-~- 
less, reddish tinged in the center, heard end brittle; leaves 
eoriaceous, curved upon the upper side, subgleucous beneath; 
penicle terminel; fruits short ellipsoid, 3/4 ineh long, 
dark green, splitting from apex to base; seed polished 
brown, the basal one-half subtended by a whitish caruncle. 
"Balanges” in Manobo. Cabadbaran, July, 1912. 
13271. Dryapteris canescens (Bl.) C. Ohr. Isolated 
tuftlets scattered in very moist loose soil of a steep dense- 
ly wooded ravine at 750 feet altitude; roots fibrous, bleck- 
ish, easily distracted from the fMumus-leden soil; stipes 
gimiler in color, rather soft in texture, the central one 
or ones bearing @ dwarfed fertile frond; sterile fronds 
deep shining green on the upper side, psler beneath, eascend- 
ing and recurved, flat, submembranous. "Paco". in Menobo. 
Cabedberan, July, 1912. 
13272. Athyrium pinnatum (Bleneo) Copel. This 
form is Diplozium extengum J. Sm. Solitary terrestrial 
tufts but more or less aggregated in masses in good moist 
or humus eovered soil of a steep wooded revine at 750 feet; 
rootstock short, subereet, 3/4 ineh thick; roots ample, 
fibrous sid flexible; stipes ascending, greenish except the 
scale covered bisck base; fronds gracefully recurved, 
rather heavy or coriaceous, smooth and shining at least on 
the upper eurfece, diverse in size, the central or longer 
ones fertile, pinules eurved somewhat upon the upper side, 
much paler green beneath. "Paco" in Manobo.  Cabadbaren, 
daly, 1912. 

