LESBls Fiews flavo-cortiea Mine Shynbd 15 Leet high 
with @ 6 inehes thick stem, branched frem near the base, in 
moiet stony Soll along the dentely woeded Catafigan creek at 
1250 feet; wood soneentrie marked.) soft, edorless an& with- 
out taste; bark Smooth, dull brow excapt the slightly red 
inner and latex containing portion; branches laxwly rebranched, 
a@rooping, tough; leaves desceniing, charteceous, much pal er 
benesth, apex recurved; fruits single or in emall elusters, 
exillary or in the axils of the fallen leaves along the 
branchicts, 1/3 ineh in dienoter, soft and sulphwreus when 
ripe,roaghaned with aimileriy celored lenticels; seeds 
yellowish, the inmer Si¢e of the receptacle reddish, unm- 
bilicus sunken; “Agopia" in Manobo, Cabadharan, July, 
L912. 
14383, ae Spiceifer Elms Ne Spe Erect herbs 
in wet san nay Boil or densely Bheaded woods alone the Gatafigan 
erecak et 1250 fect; reota fibrous and fleshy; etem solitary 
or few from the Samc root err ree ,» Varying from an inch to a 
foot in height, casianeus with sreen ridges; usually few 
branched towa.d the top; leaves diverse in Sisé, Spreading, 
membranous, nearly flat, much paler green benevth; rachis of 
Spike Similar in ecolery erect, angular; flowers seound, 
suberect, green exeept the white 1/3 ineh long corlla; "Ma- 
Litego" in Menobo. Sabedbaran, July, 1918. 
13564, wieus gicantifelia Mert. wedium Sised tree 
in wet roeky Se11 alone the densely woot Setafigan ereek at 
1260 feet; trunk & feet thiek, 35 feet high, terete, crooked, 
with main branches from the micdle; wood dingy white, odor- 
LeoB and without teste, very seft; bark very dark brown, 
lentioelled er exareseant, thick, ates abundant, yollowish 
except the epid i@mis; main branches few ascending, only 
Gparingly rebranched; lesves elt exnatingly crowded toward 
the ends of the asece ndingly curved and 1/2 to 3/4 4: thiek 
twigs, sostiy horizontal, & Baheoriaceous, flet, much deeper 
jared banaaths fige usual Ly in paire from the leat axils, 
{ green and with whitish @pots, 
whe: fails ripe on the bree ‘vinosus, Sessile, yormally Bub- 
tented by 3 Slenderly scuminately pointed greé, bracts, Tlo- 
rets red, the umbilicus covered by 3 mall and, thick brates; 
"Lecbafigan” in Manobos Gabadbaran, SUL, LYlee 
L258 56 selesinelia wusteri Hierors fr wet recky ledges 
deeply Shaded by woods along the OGntafieen exeek at 1£50 feet; 
stems a yard long, ceecasionelly terminating by widely branches, 
eurrek: et the base, subterete, rigid and easily breaking, 
nearly unbrinue, much reeurved, scale bearing aleng the up- 
per Side; wvoots ample, frequently extending pert way up the 
stems end Serving a® props; lexeflets membranous, much pal or 
green beneath, desceniin«, the terminal foliage tips have been 
obeerved to be 6 inches lone; fruits green, angular; “Thid" 
in Manobo,. Cabadberan, duly, 1912. 

