12366, Hemigraphis strizosea Vil, Subherbaceeus and 
Subereet, in sompact soil densely covered with old leaves 
ia thick woeds near @ stream at 600 feet; stem terete, usually 
curved and root taking at the base, lees than 1/2 inch thick, 
a yard high or lees, solitery or in small Brevps, dark green, 
nodose, branched more or less from near the base; branah a 
anple, widely spreading; leaves ascending, flat, thinly 
coriaceous, much paler green benenxth, lueiad above; spikes 
ereot, buds and loote bracts pale green; flower also erect; 
1/2 ines long, whitish, the basal portion cens$ricted, doe- 
eiduous; "“Mateoyabsfig" in Manobo,  Cabadbaran, duly, 1912. 
13367, Begonie mindeneensis Yerb, Suberect aueeule nt 
16365, Leptaspis ureepjata &. br. Dense colonies 
in wet hunwse covered cleyey #oil of dense woods or forex ta 
at 500 fest altitude; stem rigid, slightly compressed, re- 
Glining tomewhnt at the base, root taking at the lower nodes 
usually a yard lenge and secasionally with more than one stem 
from the root oluster; roots long, cuite rigid, cesaticonally 
from the lower leat axils; leaves teugh and shertaceous, 
dark preen on beth sides, a®cending, tips Strongly reaurved, 
in @ alterneting rows from near the bare, the green Sher the 
begoming well Separated from the stems; panicle «rect, pele 
green in the infloreseent stats, dull yellowish brown in the 
fruiting, the stalke in both eteges dark areen; fruits atiek- 
ing to clethes; "Handeloket, in Manohbo.,  Csebadharan, duly, 
L91LE. 
15369, Medinilla inveluersta Merr. Seandent shrub 
in rich wet #8011 of a Gensely forested Tlet at 600 feet, 
Stem 1/2 inch thick, tightly cleaving to tree trunks or 
@mpil eteme, climbing up to 30 feot high but usually ter- 
inating much lower down; wood soft, sreenish, with a 
relative lerge pith; berk greenish srey, roughened with 
prown lenticels; brenches diverieste, ell aleng, 1 1/2 
foot long, %ecasionaly rebranched; leaves Similarly spresdq 
ing, thinly coriaceous, peler green beneath, exceeiinely 
diverse in sine, the youns one# yellowish groen, tips ree 
curved; infloreseence subpendent, or divarieste, laterel, 
the stelke and bracts roseaus, petals whitish, filaments 
an¢ anther bases yellow, the anther horn vielace%; young 
fruite deurk grees; “Lagicau" in Menobo,  Cabacbaran, duiy, 
LILEs : 
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