1/2 to 3/4 inch seresa, with a single stone seed; wood | 
sappy white rether heavy end burly, odorless ana without 
teste; bark thick, smeoth, arayish white, the central mass 
Zetericius, the inner surface sappy white; "Oh@uofig” in 
Hand. Cabadbaran, August, 1912s 
38457, 4eliole opaen Syd. me Bp. Mostly upon the 
nether side of the older leaves of number 15456 collected 
in dense woods among thickets at 1000 feet altitude along 
the Catafigan ereek; spote eirculer, occasionally on the 
upper surfece #8 well, deep black especially the eentral 
fuzzy masse which sentains Spore bearing disks or cases, 
"Alepap” in Manobo, Cebatibarean, August, 1912. 
15488. Grewle acuminata dues,  ‘candent, Sprawling 
end hanging from the trees alone the banke of the Cutarigen 
greek at lcot feet, in wet sandy ecil among bowlders; sten 
terete, 1 1/2 inch thick, crooked or eurved but quite rigid; 
wood soft, white with a faint tinge of yellow, « trifle ¢weet, 
odoriese, the white pith larse; berk Gull brown ana gray 
mottled, relatively thick, vellowish eseept the sxoothish 
epidermis; mein branches long end hanging, the divaricste 
branchlets short and sparingly rebranched, nearly flat, sub- 
membranous, paler gfeen beneath; inflorescence erect or 
nearly 60, the stelke greenish brown; sepels eoriaceous, 
greenish on the cuter side, whitish on the inner or upper 
eide, petele white, ovary end filaments whitish, the anthers 
yellowish brown; flowers odorous and early wilting; “De~ 
lanenvfig" in Manobe; Crhedberan, August, 19126 
13469, Adenosseme mindansensis Hlms In wet greveily 
er sandy Soil among bowlders eleng theCetefigan ereek at 1000 
feet, in densely shaded pleces; stem branched from near 
the base, terete, less than 1/2 inch thiek, terete, rather 
eort and extily breaking, the greenish white woed with a 
lerge pith, bark smocth and yellowish; branches ®lencer, 
sperinely rebrenched, reclining, with suberect tips; leaves 
diverse in Bise, horizontal, membranous, dark green above, 
much paler beneath; inflorescence terminal, strongly recurved 
er pendent, the stalke, breete ani calyx green, the corolla 
segments pale yellow; young fruits eleo pendant, greenish, 
with numerens ovules or seeds; “Heliboy™” in Manobo; Cabad~ 
baran, August, 1912. 
13460. Diospyres viridifolie Fim, ue Sp. Rether sneli 
tree in moist fertile ani have eovered seil of dense foreste 
at 750 feet; trunk 1 foot thick, ereoked, subterete and 
wedded at the base, 25 fect high, mostiy brenched et the tep; 
wood quite hard, white and only slightly tinged with yellow 
throughout, edorlesa and testeless; bark dark brown or me &r- 
ly bleek, eheeked, yellowish brown exeept the epidermie, on 
the branches smooth get with ihe derk arayish brown eolor; 
twigs rigid, numeron®, aecending or poh  | leaves alse 
numerous, Bimilarly sprending, conduplicate, tips recurved, 
deep green but slightly paler beneath; nutes diverieate or 
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