12465, “UGynometre whitfordii Elm ne Sp. Very 
euell erect tree in very damp humus covered soil of 
deep forests et 1250 feet elong the Yatangan creck; 
stem terete, 4 inches thick, 15 feet high, branched 
from below the mid@ic; weet reddish brown, quite hard, 
odorless end tartejess; bark smoothish, stropurpurené 
but the epidermis; branches divaricate, repeatedly 
eprerding horisenteally, quite rigié and tough; leaves 
ascending or fimilerly spreading, Subechartaceous, much 
paler beneeth, the terminel ones large; flewer® in 
emell axillery clustere, erect, the stalke yeliowish 
white, the perienth filements and etyle white, anthers 
_ pale yellow but econ turning ferrugineus; young pod 
erect, much compretsed and lune Ghapea, yellowish green, 
rether thiek and herd; "Sste-cabifiganan? in Manoho. 
Cebadbaran, Auguet, 1912. 
12466,  Diospyros urdanetensis Elms Me Spe Smead i 
or medium sised tree in wet mose covered Stony and dente~ 
ly weeded hillsides along the Cetafigen ereek at 1250 
feet; trunk terete, slightly crooked, 1 1/2 foot thick, 
25 feet high or higher, brenchea trem the middle; wood 
rather soft or herd, yellowish white throughont, almost 
without edor, tasteless; bark excrescent, blackish brown, 
testaceus beneath the epidermis, yellowish white on the 
inner Side; branches divarieste, freely rebranched, len- 
tieelled; leaves chartececus, Similarly a@presding, meare 
ly flet, peler green benexth, fruits ascending or div ari- 
sate, mostly along the branchlets but cecasionsily in the 
leet axils, usuelly solitary but cecxsionally two or even 
in the cluster, cesteneus brown but with lighter brown 
fine hairs (resembling in shape end color acorns) sub- 
tonded by thick green calyx with lebes on the upper side 
only are Similarly pubescent, 2, 3 or 4 ovuled or seated; 
"Camagon" in Menobo. Qabedberan, August, 1912 
16468, Stenosemia pinnata Cepel. Sanll tergese 
triel tufte, in leete moist humus covered soil among 
bowlders of a deeply forested filet along the Gatafigan 
ereek at 1260 feat; roots fibrous; ample; stipes 
sort, brown; roeoteteck short, erect; fertile fronds 
reeurved, the flet pinnse meubranous end equally grem 
on both sides; fertile frond central and erect, longer 
easily breaking; the pinnae ascending, greenish; “Intay" 
in Manobo,  Gebedbaran, August, 1912, 
LS469 5 Gomphestemma luzonente Fim. Sntfiruteseont 
plante in reek ledges st the base of a cliff along th Ca- 
tangen ¢ reek at 1500 feet near the water; stem erect, 
Solitary or few clustered, terete, green, very sparingly 
branched, a yard hich ox higher, the thickness of an. or- 
dinary lead peneil, quadrenguler towerd the top; leaves 
nearly horiszeontel, paler beneath, subcoriaceous or Sub- 
menbranous; inflorescence in mall éxillary elusters, the 
Stelke and ealyx pale green, the divaricate and mere or less 
compre@sed corolla white with only a trifle tinge)byeliow, 
oderlesa, early falling; stamens the sane color except the 
yellow anthers; “Botyagon" in Manobo, Jabedbaran, Auguet, 
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