12292. Helicia intearifelie Rims. te BP. Small sized 
suberect tree in moist though well dreined soil of e forested 
ridge at 2500 fect er beyond Ginantawan knoll; stem erooked 
and irregular, 9 inches thiek, 20 feet high or higher, branched 
from the middle; wood soft, radially serked, only the very 
thin anpwoed white, otherwise neerly fulvus brown, without 
ocor or teste; fork with shallow exereseences, gray or brown — 
mottled, letericiue beneeth the epidermis; branches relatively 
short, ascending and erookedly rebranched ,rigid; leaves as- 
eending and recurved, folded uporfthe darker green surfaes, 
sharteceous, the young one® pale areen end purplish tinged; 
Spikes terminel, axillary er lateral, recurved, the rachis 
dark bluish, corolla tube reddish white epieal portion 
yellow, the 4 segments strongly reeurved and winding ited f 
into a "spring" from the apex down to about the middle, style 
Straight end similerly ecolered, the stigma greenkeh, flowers 
nearly oferless end deciduous when the spike, calyx (?) of 
the same color a@ the rachis; epikes 6 to 16 inehs long; 
"Salimeyesimey" &n Nanobo. Gabadbaren, duly, 1912. 
“18398, stereum concolor (Junzh.) face, Chiefly aleng 
the sides of emall nearly decayed limbs lying upon the moist 
humus covered #oil of a forested ri@ze at 2500 feet altitade; 
inéividusle aseending and forming dense colonies, cehralenane 
beneath, the margins lighter yellow, yellowish brown marked 
on the upper side especially turning brown towerd the base, “ 
curved upon the upper side, flexible and rather dry; "“"Tealifiga" 
in Mernobe, Cabadberan, July, 1912. 
13394.  Meallotue aurioulate Merr, A rather Slender 
erect tree imuwrecky ecil of a forested ridge at 2500 feet 
er beyend mount Ginentawan; etem 7 inchs thick, #5 feet 
high, brenshed from below the middle; terete; wood rather 
herd, Closely greined, oderlese, Blizhtly bitter, yellowith 
brown, the outer ar Bapwood lichter ir @eolor;. bark dull 
brown, more or less minutely checked, latericius on the 
inner side; branches long, divaricate, repestedly rebranch- 
es, the twigs Slender end horizontelly disposed; leaves 
descendinz, Subeorlaceous, much psler green baneath; flowers 
erect, greenish exeept the whitieh hairs, odorless, deci«- 
ducus; “Gananyan"® in Manobo, Cabsdbaran, duly, 1912. 
12395, Pleetronie viridis Merr. “hrub in demp hwaus 
covered So11 of a densely wooded steep slope at £750 feet 
eltitrde Gimentewan; sten euberect, 10 feet high, 4 ines 
thiek, ercoked, brenched from nesr the ground; wooed otor- 
less and tasteless, sappy white, rathor toft; bark smooth, 
green end brown mottled; branenes @preading, the twigs 
guite crookedly curved and with @uberect tips; leaves 
coriaceous, horizontal, paler green beneath, margins usuale 
ly coarsely wavy, diverse in Size; . oderless inflorescence 
erect, the otelke esreenish, the eelyx nearly purple, the 
reflexed corolla seguent® mellew, Snthers orange red, pite 
tile of the corolla segment color; fipe fruite yellow fi- 
nelly vermillion rea, flatly elcbose, 1/3 to 1/2 ineh acrosa, 
erect; Cabadbaran, July, 1912. 
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