and similerly colored beneath the epidermis, its inner 
surface only whitish, with thiekly pleited spines; branches 
very long, spinescent, drooping, the ultimate ones rela- 
tively short and suberect: leaves horizontal mostly, the 
membranous leaflete reeurved, much paler green beneath; 
inflorescence terminal and erect, O@orlese, only few and 
short branched; ealyx red, reflexed 6 petals reddish 
brown on the ontside , greenish on the upper side, filaments 
white, anthers pale yellow, stigma deeper yellow, style 
end ovary bright red st least when old, hairy ovary crown 
or disk light pink; fruits pendent from green etalie, 
yellowieh green, fletly globose or butten shaped, the 6. 
stony seeds brown and imbedded in the meat; “Dagyatiges" 
in Manobo. Cebadbaran, August, 1912. 
13449.  Pisonia saenleata Linn. Seandent and widely 
sprawling over the wooded thickets alone the moist etony 
banks of the Catengan creek et 1000 feet; stem 11/2 inches 
thick, bendable, terete but nodulose, looping; wood white, 
soft, sweetish, odorless, with a lerge derk brown pith; 
bark smooth, yellowish gray, green on the branchlets; 
branches long, drooping, their ultimete branches relstively 
short; leaves sseending, more or legs folded on the upper 
Gerker green surfeec, Ineid, coriaceous and quite easily 
breaking; euart panicle erect, the etelke sreenish snd brittle, 
the odorless flowers yellowioh creen; young fruits obovoidly, 
elongated, terete end striate; Cabadbaren, August, 1912. 
13461. ~.Zisyphus erebrivenosa C. B. Rob. free climber 
and sprawling over dense jungles in moist send grevelly soil 
along the Catafigen creek at 1000 feet; old stem 2 inches 
thick, bendable, subterete, looping; wood porous, reddish 
pith lerge: berk smooth, mottled, yellowish beneeth the 
epidermie, yellowish and lenticelled on the branches; branch- 
lets rether short, ascending or recurved, sharply spinescent 
along the nether side; leaves similarly disposed, upon 
ascendingly eurved end brown petioles, bledes thinly 
chartseceous, very much deeper green on the upper usually 
foldeé surface; fruits subglobose, 3/4 inch thick, rasset 
or fulvous brow, with lighter colored lenticels, solitary 
or few ciustered upon the suberect 1 to 2 sperihgly branched 
inches long stalks; shell of fruit deep yellow on the inner 
side, the lerge flsttened stone seed surrounded by a very - 
sweet whitish snd juicy meat; esgerly eaten by the natives; 
brown seed mealy but apa "Lalembod" in Manobo. 
Cabadberen, August, 1912 
13452. Meliols pervale Syd. n. sp. Chiefly upon 
the nether side of the lerger or 014 leaves of Meliacese 
number 15450, collected in moist stony soil slong the densely 
woody banke of the Cetafigen creek st 1000 feet; patches 
bisckich, the fruiting dots derk ble@k, irreguler in size; 
“Aleplap” in Manobo. Cabsdberan, August, 1912. 

