below the basal portion of the leaf; the persistent. bracts 
marcescent; capsule purpureour, tri gonoas shining, hard, 
with 3 seeds; delicsated flowers white and sore reddish. tinged; 
"Begigkik" in Menobo. . Cabadbaran, August, 1912. 
13513. Merremia hastata (lesr.) Hall. Perennial 
herba in sand gravelly open filets of the Minusuang river 
at 250 feet; root crown 1 1/2 inch thick with many fleshy 
tough roote; stems seversl, horizontelly spreading or 
trailing md forming emall or lerge cirenlar messes; very 
flexible, terete, smooth and nearly eastaneous brown, ¢limb- 
ing by twining, the branchlets slender end green; leaves 
membranous, ascending, conduplicaté at the base, otherwise 
flat, slightly peler beneath; buds and flowers erect, corolla 
ne@rily sulphureous with purple ring on the inside toward the 
. base; filaments pinkish white, anthers stramineous, stigma 
Breen; capsule sleo erect, globose, with 3 seeds; "“Tataton"” 
in Menobo. Gabsdbarean, August, 1912. 
13614. Wedelia biflora (L.) DC. Forming more or 
lees thickets or eprewling over shrubberies in sand gravelly 
soil slong the Minusueng river st 250 feet; etem tightly 
rooted in the ground, treiling or not, when treiling tsking 
“yoote st the joints: brenches numerone, horizontal or esub- 
erect, pale green and obseurely angled, stem 3/4 inch thick 
end grayish brown; leaves mostly horizontal except the young 
ones, reeurved especially toward the apex, similar yellowish 
green on both sides; flowers upon erect green stalks, invo- 
luere green, the corolla flavons, heads with schene yellowigh 
green and solid; “Hagonoy”" in Manobo. Cabatbaran, Angust, 
1912. Kc 
136158. Alysicarpue nummulerifolius (L.) BC.  Peren- 
nial herbs in eandy or prevelly soil along the flete of the 
Minusueng river et 250 feet; root crown 1 inch thick, branched 
and deeply seated in the ground, flexible; eteme numerous 
from the crown, bleckich brown towerd the base, the branchidets 
very flexible yet: tough, and green; leaves profuse, sscending 
from the sabereet petiole, folded on the deeper green side, 
membranous; flowere roeeous or purplieh, ascending, odorless; 
pods green, compressed and ringed, else suberect; "“Yogtescanon" 
in Menobo, the stipules ere chaffy, the rachis derk green, 
the ealyx pele or yellowich green: Cabadbaran, Auguet, 1912.. 
13616. Momordica ovate Gogn. Perennial veins 
trailing or eprewling over thickets and henging in e feetoon 
fashion along the Minusuang flet et 250 feet; etems long, 
repeatedly branched, very flexible, green; tough, terete; 
leseves descending, folded, se trifle paler benesth, thinly 
coriaceous, the escending petiole with ® pair of darker 
green glands toward the base; inflorescence drooping from 
the leaf exile or terminal, the stalke derk green, erect, 
the brect with age turning yellow, calyx neeriy bleck; the 
eremeous petals forming s sort of s bowl, yellow streaked 
on the inside and three with bleckish bases, stamineal 
Gisk thick end saxraxtiusiau surantiecous, the outer portion 
of the filements and versatile enthere aleo black, otherwise 
ae the disk;... "Tebolo" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, August, 1912. 
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