13470.  kEpithems benthami Clk. ‘Sneevlent herbs in rock 
erevices or in seepage gravelly 8011 along the Catafigan gorge 
at 1600 feet; roots fibrous; stem terete, purplish brown toward 
the base, green above; leevet coriaceous, ascending or hori- 
zontal, folded on the upper much deeper green surface, margins 
very rugo@e; inflorescence termine), eireinate, subtended by 
a foliaceous bract, the striet ascending calyxees green, the 
4eciduous corolle pale blue except the upper lip which ie deep 
purple spotted in the middle region; "Merarayhag” in Manobo « 
Gabadbaran, August, 1912.6 
13471.  Fieus infectoria eaulecerpa (Migs) King. 
Seandent along a large tree trunk up te 60 feet where it ap- 
parently is branched into severe] long widely #prescing and 
numereasly branched limhes, the stem or thet portion elong 
its support is brenched and forme interlaced masses; wood 
soft, white, concentric marked; bark gray, Smooth, with 
jatem, twies flexible; leaves horisontelly spresiing, thinly 
coriaceous Shallowly folded above, tips strongly recurved, 
a trifle paler beneath; young fige erect, pale green,with 
bright ve@ rather small umbilical tips; "Beleti" in Manolo. 
Cabadbaran, Auguat, 1912. . 
13472. Polystictus melesgris Berk, Dense éolonies 
upon the upper side and along the sides of a large partly de- 
eayea trunk Lying across the Cataligan creek st SaeRe 1500 
feet altitude in very humid pleees; flexible, white beneath, 
margins thin, fuligineusly marked on the upper side, the con- 
tigueus masses grown together, Spongy; “Tecosaa" in Manobo, 
Gabedbaran, August, 1912. 
Sm. 
1247S. Cynuthee integra gd. Low and suberect tree in 
humus covered moist ooapact #011 of 2760 feet of mount Duros, 
along a forested ridge; stem ewrved et the bese, 5 inches 
thick, icreaular, 10 feet high; fronds about as long; the 
stipes a yard long and ascending, blackish brown and spines- 
cent along the nether side, green and smooth along the flate 
tened upper surface; fronds strongly recurved, the terminal 
pinnee pendant and much smaller, the seattering batel ones only 
a trifle smaller then the middle ones; stipes near the trunk 
very spinescent, the seelee soft, dry, end avellanewsa in 
color; “Nanembed" dn Manobg; Cebedbaran, August, 1912. 
19474, Aporesa stipulese Merr. Very Slender tree 
in. @ moist @lay and deeply covered with humus on a etepp 
heavily wooded ravine at 2750 fect of mount Duros; stem 
& imehes thick, 80 feet high, rather @traight, terete, few 
branched at the tep; weed heavy, hard, reddish tinged toward 
the center, oderless and without teste; bark smooth or mi- 
nutely checked, dark reddish brown except the epidermis; 
branches spreading, crookedly rebranched, rigid; leeves si- 
milarly @isposeé, their petiole ascenédingly curved, bleém 

