13396. Piper slbidiramum (9) 6. DG. Climbing along 
lerge tree trunks on s forested ridge at 2760 feet, on @ 
@teep eravelly or @tony Slope; #8ten 2 inches thiek, sub- 
terete and nodulose, looping, numereusly rebranched towerd | 
the top where it rather tightly elines to ite pupport; 
wood Soft, porous dingy white, with conspicnous white rae 
dial markings; bark rolstively thiek, yellowis gh and with 
browner colored lenticels running horizontally; branches 
divariezte or horizontal, often descending; twigs terete 
@reen, nodulose; leaves deecending, coriaceous, usually 
curved upen the lower or omeh peler side, tips recurved; 
fruits £& inches lene, 1/2 ineh thick, erect from the op- 
posite side of the terminel leaf, upon areen Stalks; mi- 
nieatus red; "Beyos" 1n Manobo; terminal bract pale green, 
euberect; CGabadbarean, July, 1918. 
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15397 « Procré#s laevigata Blm Epiphytie in a de- 
@eyed place of a learxe Limb of monstrous tree on a forested 
ridge or near it et 2750 fest; stems mumerous frem the 
Same root cluster, aseending and finslly recurved, terete, 
flexible, the thickness of ean ordinary pencil, amooth ané 
arayish brown, ereen tew'rd the. oseendingly curved tips; 
leaves descending, flat exeept the recurved tips, much 
peler green beneath, thickly coriaceous; infruteseence 
exilleryy, from banekth the stern flatly ; siebose, the fleshy 
receptacte incernetus red, the Pox “ete anil white, 3/4 inch 
across; “Camagtia*™ in Manebe the juice in the froite 
is viscid; ateme 1 te 2 feet long, only Sparingly re- 
branched; Cabadberan, July, 1912.6 
15897 a, Syoeria laevigetea Blm Gabadbaran, daly, 
L91E« 
(Ne deseription) 
13396, Vetica mindenenk®is PoxwWs me BPs “lender tree 
in a wooded stescp rocky Slope near the ridge at 2760 feet; 
$runk 10 inch® thick, terete, branched toward the top, 306 
feet high: wood white on the outaide, iuiler white or 
brownish otherwise, quite herd, heavy, odorless and taste. 
less; bark brown, Snceth or sealing, sappy white except the 
outside, wood with etieky resin: branches ercokedly ree 
branched, tyvige lex end flexible: leaves ascending or 
horizontally Spreeding, aunbehartacegus, folded upon the 
Shining and deeper green upper Surface, paler green beneath, 
tips Feourved; intioressence eveos or neariy os ay ‘the 
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"Binufieo” in manbe. Vaeei bara, July, 1912, 

