13522, Piper chabe Bim, Climbing 16 to 15 feet 
upon gmall stems and forming dense, tangled sesses, in 
low Plate of secondary woods of rich compact black soil 
at 250 feet; stem flexible, 1/2 ineh thick, terete, nume- 
rously branched above; woody tissue greenish white, with 
yellowish radial markings, stem crooked; branchlets pale 
green, slender, nodulose, drooping; leaves similerly dis- 
posed, fiat, paler bemesath, corisceous; flowering spike 
erect and reddish tinged; fruits pale green, terete, 1/2 
to 3/4 inch long, truncate at the ends, hard, stigmas brown; 
upon pale green flexible peduncles; "bagaybedjon” in 
- Menebo. . Cabadbaran, August, 1912, 
13523. Leucosyke capitellata (Poir.) Wedd. rect 
ehrub«Like tree in fertile moist soil of secondary forests 
at £60 feet; stem 6 inches thick, nearly kek terete, 20 
feet high or lese, branched from below the midd@le,wood 
odorless and without taste, sappy white, soft; bark smooth, 
whitien blotehed, isabellius beneath epidermis and stringy; 
main branches ascending, very numerously rebranched, twigs 
lax and euberect; lesves ascending or horizontel, thinly 
chartaeeous, shallowly folded on the upper ereen surface, 
shalky white beneath; heads globose, alwaye less than 1/2 
inch, dark green, upon green recurved stelkes; "“Ssgombibilan” 
in Menobe. Cabadbaran, August, 1912. 
13525. Shores malibeto FPoxw. n. ep. Large forest 
tree of a steep slope near » ridge at 1500 feet; old tree 
trunk terete but crooked, 5 feet in diameter at least, 
over a hundred feet high, 75 feet to the firet limbs; wood 
exceedingly hard and heavy, brittle, the sappy or outer 
1/4 dingy or yellowish white, suddly changing to on 
avellaneus or testaceus colored central mage, odorless and 
tasteless; old bark smooth and sealing in thin plates, 
nearly isebellinius, otherwise yellowish; main branches 
large, ascending, quite ecreoked, spreading; branches lax, 
light eastaneus; foliage subcharteceous, mostly horizontal, 
lucid on both side, a trifle deeper green on the upper 
usually folded side; fruite or the nut portion greenish; 
the 3 outer wings larger, than the 2 inner ones, 311 
papyraceus, flavue to flaveevireus in color, strongly 
venose; "Malibate” in Hanobe; The fruits were gathered 
from the ground under the large or old tree, the leaves 
and wood sample were taken from 9 foot and a haif thick 
tree near the 014 or parent tree; Cabadbaran, Aughst, 
1912. 
13526. Hopes malibato “oxw. n. 8p. Rather email 
tree in or on * forested ridge at 2000 feet altitude, in 
well drained soil among some rocks; stem 1 foot thick, 
‘terete, slightly crvoked,s trifle buttressed at base, 30 
feet high, mostly branched toward the top; wood hard, 
heavy, the outer 1/3 sappy white, the heartwood Lignt 
isibellinus, odorless and tast@less; berk mmtke mottied, 
smoothish, testaceus except the epidermis; main branch e@ 
spreading, repeatedly rebranched, the lax twigs brown; 
leaves horizontally spreading, subchartaceous, dull green 
yet lighter se benesth, flat with recurved tips; infrutes- 
eeseence axillary, fer inches long eat most, the green 
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