Lee96, Piper ferstenil 0. UC. A handsome @nell tree 
trunk ¢limber, in moist hums covered S011 of densely wooded 
ravine Slopes at 1750 feet; Stem & inches thiek,: near the 
ground, bendable, eroeked end gnarly, eeastionaliy rebranched, 
elimbing up to 25 feet; wood soft, with srominent white 
and brown redial portions, odorless, Blightly stringent; 
bark brown or yellowish eo, smooth or becoming minutely 
cheek<d, branches sreen, Sparingly rebranched, 5 te 5 feet 
lens; leaves horizontal, sceriaceous when young, chortaces us 
when old, Iueid and much deeper green above; “pikes ) hang ne, 
yellow, exSily breaking, terete, 6 to 16 inches dong; "“Buyog" 
n Manol Yeneadbaran, duly, 1912. 
irifelia leurskefolia Ele omel2 tree in 
hous iat a ‘om 1a % eoil of ensely woeded ridge 
pte feet; sapwood white, othe wise funosus, Light 
a and tasteless; bark brown vaeers the ano Shae 
trayieh epidermis; main branches st the t the & 
iuehes thiex and 25 feet high ste, sii | I ucanaaes: 
twigs 3 soneTad v8 ample, s8cen ing, pleasing areen, 
: . nesrl: y flat t. iverse in eine, thine 
“lowers ereenish, the central organs yellow- 
xposed ones hesome reddish ery pu 
in Meanobe. OSebad be 
Rendie whitfordii (S19.) Merr, i rather 
tree in rea s ky Goll of a woeded ravine 
ee ae > BS 2 inches thick, Bd feet 
the we subter rate; weod dingy or 
¥e LLowieh nit sa without te, heavy, rather 
herd; AEE oth, veils s sh , Peletir e4.. thins hranonlete 
16x end horiz GQpreeding, y leaves amooth, 
ondupll os te, get beng at apex, moh ‘eae areen beneath, 
eoriaceous: froite hard, green, #011 tary from the axils, 
a-Gelled, fevernl seeded in eech; “Simeastonog” in Maneho, 
Usbadberan, duly, 191: 
13300, Spe thelobus- apoens is Bil 4A mighty end lefty 
tree climber on a forested ridge at 2000 feet altitude; 
vs 
@0i] sticky, red and deeply humus covered; stem looping 
toward the bese of the tree trunk, 4 inches acro#s, ir- 
ular in shape, bendeable, hesvy, repeatedly branched to- 
gard the top; branches rather closely hugging the tree 
trunk, Slender, drooping, rebranched; wood seft and 
yellowish white, with few cireles of “molasses” 
gontainins bands, slixhtly aesid but odorless; bark 
dull brown, obseurely lenticeliled: paniele e foot to a 
yerd lone, tersinating the lone free henzing branches; 
flowers oderless, white, th¢main alternating stalks sub- 
tended by lesfy bracts; Spikes greenish, buds creany 
white; leaves @iverse in Size, ceriaceous, deeper ; 
on the upper surface; "Penaneg™ in Manobo. jabadbaran, 

