13408, “aurania eneeulenta: Elms fe SDs iveoelike 
shrub in loose grevelly or stony sei] of a steep densely 
sheded ravine near 6 Streamlet at 600 feat altitude; sten 
8 inchs thiek, @0 feet high, brenehed from below the middle, 
very irrectler; wood ver, soft, sappy white, odorless and 
tasteless; old bark avellaneus and exerescent, yellowish 
avay on the branches, nearly casteaneus benexth the epldere 
mia; branches widely @preading over the ereek bed; leaves 
eoriaceous, diverse in Sise, similarly Spreading, much paler 
Breen beneath, midvein ®u-culent a6 is else the petiole and 
greenish ends of the twigs; flowers er fruits hanging in 
ened] elusters from the stem and lorger branehe®, only oo- 
easionally in the leaf axils; leavee alternitingly clustered 
towerd the ends of the branehlets; stelke grean flexible; 
enlyx green at the bavwe, whitish toward apex and margine, 
eorelia pure white, filesents Licht yellow, anthers deep 
yellow, exerted style and atiema white, flower odorless; 
fruits as the flowers pendant, gleboee, 1/2 inch in diane- 
ter, whitish green, Secelled, numerovsly seeded brewn and in 
Glear viseid juice; “Mizadon" in Menobo, Cabadbaran, duly, 
1912. 
124104 Piper rhyncholepeie ¢. DO, Seandent about 
middle sized tree trunks in very wet deeply shaded Pavines 
along smell ereeks of leose fine arevelly 8011 at 500 Lest 
altitude; etem 1/2 inch thick, terets, hendable, repeatedly 
branched, @limbing up to 15 feet; wooed sort, redially marxed, 
with & large pith, edorless ani testelese; berk blackish 
brown densely lenticelied, green end hairy on the deseendi ng 
and G@paringly branched branches 3 te 6 ‘set long; leares 
descending, felded on the uper deeper green surface, tips 
Strongly reeurved; bracts green, rather rigid, Slongthe upper 
side of the branchlets: spike® eppesite the terminel leaves, 
upon Bheort green veduncles, arecnish white, quite rigid, terete; 
“fonyabayan" in Menobo, Cahboadberan, Augyet, 1912, 
38411, CGonnarue mindensensisa Verr, Looping elimher 
in very deap rather fertile e011 of dense forests at 500 
feet; stem 1 to 2 inches thick, subterete, erocked, branched 
toward the top; wooed sett, porous, odorless and tasteless, 
reddish toward the center; bark relatively thick, smoothish, 
evayish green mottled, latericins juiey; branches long, | 
drooping, or sprewling, repestedly rebranched, green, tongh; 
leaflets deseending, eorisceors, deseending or Subpendant, 
Shining end very emooth, felded on the upper mach deoper 
green surfsee, apex recurved; infruteseenee erect, axillary 
or laterel, the single or few eluetered ones green; fruits 
areen, Shining, Somewhat flattened, nearly 1 inch serese; 
“Gawatia" in Manobe,  Gebadberan, Aucust, 1912, 
13412,  Oxymitra obtusifolia Elm, Climbing and Sprewi- 
ing in moict wooie at 500 feet; stem subterete, few incl s 
thiek or less, leepine, freely brenched toward the top; 
wood sort, porous, odorless, Slightly sweet, yellowish, 
with fine redial marking®, porous; bark rather thick, 
greenish gray, Smooth, teetecene exeept the surface, pith 
lerge; branches drooping, rebranehed, Aull brown; leaves 
Submeshranous, dul] subslaucens green beneath, nearly flat 
er Sides curved somewhat upon the nether Sid6, young ones 
much paler; flewers pendent from green pedicels, odorous, 
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