13505, Kadsura sulphuria “lm. n. ap, Seandent 
upon woods and thickets along « fertile stream bank at 250 
feet: atem 2 inches thick, bendable, crooked, terete, 
numerously branched 16 feet from the ground end forming 
denge interlaced mosses; wood porous, reddish tinged, 
odorless and tasteless; bark very thick, isahbellinus exeept 
the sordid uk brown deeply checked epidermis, that on the 
branches smooth and brown; branches turning, tough, slender; 
leaves ascending from dark green petioles, the thickly 
corisceous blades deseending, usually folded and tips 
recurved, paler green beneath, diverse in size; flowers 
gubpendant, solitary or in emall clusters, upen short thick 
@reen pedicels, bracts greenish, the inner ones sulphureus, 
anthers whitish, the stiamas green; "Ganogon” in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, August, 1912. 
15507, Unearia philippinensis Mim. Seandent and 
widely eprawling over wooded jungles along a fertile stream 
bank at 260 feet; old stem terete, 11/2 ineh thiok, bend- 
able; wood soft, brownish white, with a large pith; o14 
bark amooth and yellowish gray; branches freely rebranched, 
@reen, angular or square; twigs drooping, subtended by 
yellowish brects; leaves deecending, submembranocus, paler 
beneath, condupliesate, lucid above, aubtended by similar 
bracts and with « yellowish green recurved spine from the 
leaf axils; heade divaricate, mote deseanding than the 
leaves; stalke bracte and calyx greenish, the eslyx seg- 
ments (when exposed) and corolla nearly melleus; flower 
slightly odorous and very soft; “Sabilen” in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, August, 1922. . 
13509, Gironniera celtidifolia Gaud. Shrub-like 
tree in very wet slluvisel soil of deep densely shaded 
forested fists at 250 feet altitude; stom a half foot thick, 
terete, 15 feet high, brenched from below the middle; wood 
moderately soft or hard, rather heavy, the malleus gradual- 
ly changing to the ochraceus heartwood, bitterish, odorless; 
bark isabellinus exeest the smooth greenish gray epidermis; 
the mein seeending branches numerously rebranched, the 
ultimate ones slender and lax; leaves quite rigid, charta- 
eeous, much paler green beneath, horizontal or dese ending, 
flat with recurved tipe: flowers and fruits axillary and 
along the branchlets, mainly on the under side, emall ta 
large clustere, styles or stiemae whitish, ovaries pale 
green, yvoune fruits flattened and dark green, turning nearly 
miniatus When maxxk mature; "Tearuntungean” in Manobo « old 
stem very irregular. Gabadbaran, August, 1912, 
13612. Pheynium philippinenge "idl. Large tuesocks 
in wet fortile soil of a densely forested flat at 250 feet; 
individual tufte emall, the green stalks erect, 1 to 2 
yerds high, deeply grooved and sheathed along the upper 
side toward the base, elichtly curved and ¥9R8 warned at 
the distal end or guwk just beneath the leaves; leaf ascend~ 
ing, membranous, deeper green on the upper side, easily 
Wilting and eurling upon the mx upper side; mumikx xxekrine 
infrutese ence on the upper side of the petiole «a few inshes 
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