13425. inoelera grendifolia Elm. me Sp. “mali 
erect tree in rich very deup humus covered soil of a densa- 
iy forested flat at 600 feet; stem 4 inches thick, terete, 
26 feet high, branched from above the middle; wood light, 
white, odorless and Bantelesa, slightly yellowish toward 
the center; bark greenish grey mottled, amocths branche 
iets Slender, rebranched; leaves aacending frem the stout 
petidles, flat, chertaceous, much paler or yellowieh green 
beneeth; infruteseence laters] or axillary, divaricate or 
ascending, the rigid @talks green or beeoulng reddish brown, 
usuelly in emell groups; fruite subglobese, 1/2 ineh in 
diameter, green; solitary seed, dirty yellowish with ver~ 
tisel Gull purplish or bluish streaks er veins; "Gebolan" 
in Manche, CGabadbaran, Auguet, 1912, 
13427, titeen urdsnetensia Flms. ne Sp. Middle sized 
tree in a very moist densely forested flat at Boo fect; aten 
nearly & feet thick, terete but somewhat erooked, 40 fect 
high, meinly branehed toward the tep; nearly strnight; wood 
yellowieh, Slightly bitter, odorless, seft, only the thin sep- 
wood whitish; bark thiex, grey and brown mettled smoeth, 
flavus except the epidermis; the spresding branches erooked- 
iy rebranched, the ultimate ones Slender and green, easily 
breaking; leeves from eseendingly curved yellowieh green pe~« 
tioles, ascending or horizontal, nearly flet, margins coarse- 
ly wavy toward the recurved apex, Subglaucous green bencath, 
thinly charteeeous; flowering heads upen 1 inch leng, ase 
eending yellowish green stalke;: bracts of the same color, 
floral parts mere yellow, slightly odorous, moetly axillary 
+ edna "Dila-manok" in Manobo, Gabadberan, August, 
OF ee ‘ 
13429, Piper chabea Bla. ‘Twining upon snail trees 
or Shrubs up te 15 feet in a very rich moilet and hunne 
covered Soil of very decp forested flat at 500 feet ale 
titude; stem subtercte, 1/2 inch thick, very flexible, 
loosely twining and num rously branched at the top, no~ 
Gulose; wood very soft, yellowish or dingy white, with 
whiter colored radial lines, pith large; berk greenish | 
or blotched, Smoothish; brenches forming interlaced masses, 
@lender, drooping, areen, rebranched; leaves thinly ¢o- 
lieceous, descending, peler beneeth, flat and with ree 
curved tips; flowers ¢arnosus, erect, upon green stalks; 
fruite Saubpendent, dark green, hard; "Sam=mayna" in Mae 
nobo; Cahbadbaran, August, 1912. 
13430, Ficus manilensie Yarb, Smell erect tree in 
@ rich moist forested fist at 500 feet altitude; stea 8 
inches thick, terete, 25 fect high, branched from the mid- 
@ie; wooed Sweetish, white concentric wings, odorless, 
rather soft yet brittle; berk dull brown, mere or less 
lenticelled, seppy white except the epidermis; wrenches 
laxly and slenderly rebra ched, the subere:t er merely 
eseendingly eurved tips aull greenish; leaves thinly 
Ghartaceous, POEsGensel iy Serends ese mach deeper green 
beneath; fruits elustered elong the branchlets below the 
foliage, very dark green, upon Similarly colored subereet 
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