15899,  Grmosia calavensis Bleo, Niddle sized tree 
in damp humue covered soil ef a deeply forested ridge, at 
£2750 feet; trunk 1 1/2 foot thiek, terete, erookea, 35 
feet high, branched mainly towerd the top, trifle buttressed 
at the base; woot tough, bitterish, yellowish tinged; bark 
yellowish grey, lenticelled, of the wood color on the inner 
Side; main brenehes spreading, rebranched in bunches, the 
branchlets green; leaves horizontal, #hallewly folded on 
the upper Slightly areencr surface, tips etrongly fecurved, 
Subshartaceous; panicle ereet, the stalke and calyx late« 
ricius, very flexible, petals lileacinus’ abeve the middle, 
She basal portion whitish exeept the banner which is green, 
divaricate, odorless, young pale green pods Gubpendant, 
"Meripaas" in Manobo. Oahadbaran, July, 1918. 
LE4006 Persea philippinensis Merr, SMa Alender tras 
in moist haus eovered soil of » densely forested ridge ai 
£750 feet; stem terete, 5 inches thick, 25 feet high, brenched 
at the top; wood rether soft, yellow, odorless & tasteless; 
OaRK grayish, smooth, testaceus beneath the epidermis; branches 
epresding, freely rebranehed, the twice aseandingly curved; 
leaves horizontal, flat, #ubgleuceus_peneath, shining dark 
green above, coriaceeus; infruteseess ascending, green, the 
exposed fruite turing refldish; even the Stalke turing red; 
"Mafizeabas" in Manobo. Cabadberan, July, 1912. 
15401,  Ganoderme rugotun (Pl, et Heee) Bres, In very 
moist fertile seil under @ leree Dipteroearpue tres at 2750 
feet altitude; stem few inches te « foot long, terete, blaek- 
ish, usually curved at the base, erect, erockeé; spore beare 
ing portion horizenteal, 1/3 te 1/2 inch thick, similerly 
black on the upper Side and along the margin, grayich white 
beneath and plainly marked when seratehed, very irregular 
iu Shepe and size, the stem is semetimes 6 inches in humus 
but if elways in wet reddich soil; “Retafigbutafic in Manobo, 
Cabadbaran, July, 1912. 
124026 Asterina Gubinermis Syd. ny @ps Irregular 
patehes upon the nether side of the older leaves of a young 
plant called by the Manchos ee ; colonkes 
blaek with deeper black fruiting dots; eoBlected on e 
humid ridge ot 2750 fest; “Aleplep" in Manebo. Gebade 
baran, duly, 1912. 
13403, Ganoderma subternatum Murr, lerge rigid 
fungus on sides of a lerge snag at £750 fect altitude, in 
very deep foreste of moist huemi covered seil, about 10 
feat from the ground, from 1 te 3 feet aerese, the younger 
onéa whitieh beneath, the old ones cesteneus, rether smooth 
beneath; the upper part ringed with wavy Marking, rather 
herd, nesrly letericius, castaneus dmamnediately beyend the 
whitish margins; “Palimpifig" in Menobo,. Cebadharan, July, 
LY1l2. 

