13517. Hedyotis hiepidsa Retz. Siennial herbs in 
gompaect bleck soil of cogon flata near the Hinusuang river 
at £80 feet: roote fibreue, alaeo from the lower joints of 
the reclining stems;; stems numerous, subterete, green or 
prownieh, from 2 foot to a yard long, unbranched; ascend- 
ingly curved toward the ends; leavea horizental and flat 
or creased along the midrib of the upper shining ¢reen 
surface, relatively whitish ereen benesth; flowers in 
dense axillary clusters, the calyx green, the stamens and 
—. white; "Bangat* in Manebo. Cabadbaran, August, 
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13518. Fuersria thunbergiana (5. & 2,) Bth, Vines 
aprawling over thickete in the hot dry sand graveliy fiat 
af the Winusushig river at 250 feet; stem subterete, less 
than 1/2 inch thick near the ground, flexible, 15 feet 
long and numerouely branched, ereen but when o1d brown and 
brown hairy; branchlets turning, green, tough, the longer 
free ends dreoping: bracts pale green, petiolce sseending; 
leaflets horizontel, flat, submembranous, paler or conese 
cent green, benesth; spikes erect, brown or yellowish 
@reen, buds nearly plumbets and erect: flowers divaericate 
er subpendant, odorless, the lividue petsls very showy, 
the banner with « flavus blotch near the base; youn 
pendant pods compressed, covered with fulvur non stinging 
hairs; “Tabaunon" in Manobe. Cabadbaran, August, 1912, 
13619. Bvedia glabra Dim, Smell erect tree in rich 
eompact soll of wooded banks of the Minusuang river at 
250 feet; stem € inches thick, 20 feet high, terete, crooked, 
branched from the middle; wood soft, very light, white, 
without oder er taste: pith large and Light brown; bark 
emooth, mottled, relatively thin, nearly sulphur yellow 
on the inside; limbs spreading, ascending, forming » dense 
erown: twigs angular, green, erect; leavea ascending, 
folded, apex recurved, sides coareely wavy; shining deep 
green above, some paler benesth; inflorescence axilisry, 
ereet, 411 the stalke dark green, perianth and stswens 
white or etremineus, with an unpleaesnt sourish odor, 
pistil greenish; "Magayangs" in Manobo, fruits dark nists 
Gabadbaxan, August, L912. 
13521, Piper rotundistigmum ©, DC, Climbing slong 
euell tree trunks or steme of shrubs in wet compact black 
eoil of secondary forests at 250 feat; stem less then 1 
inch thick, flexitie, terete, grayish and brown mottled; 
woody tiseue very soft, sappy white, with a large brown 
pith, porous and radially marked, repeatedly branched 15 
feet from the ground, the main branches loose and hanging, 
alternatingly vebranched 911 slong, twigs lentioe#lled and 
noduloge; leaves pendant, succorisceous, tive recurved, 
much paler beneath, usually folded toward the base; fruits 
& inehee to 2 feet long, hanging upon yellowish green 
stalks from the opposite side of the terminal leaf, when 
@reen terete and nearly etresight, crooked and nodulosely 
rugoge in the miniatus red wature state; This Piper 
should be te taken in cultivation, for ite loose interlaced 
branchlets, large pendant leavea and curiously showy red 
fruite make a very interesting ernamentsl plant; “ihalsson” 
in Manobo. Sabadbaran, August, 1912. 

