phe one fungus, small punctiform bodies is undeterminable, 
although cooking very wells fhe other elongated bodies 
eof about 1 mm in length is the new Acrospermum. ALL 
these leaves which I return contain the new AcroSpermun, 
Phe other leaves not containing the Agrospermum have been 
destroyed. 
19541. Meliola heteroseta Syd. Me Sp. Upon the 
lower side of leaves of number 14539, collected in very 
humid forested flats at 750 feet altitude; patches black, 
few on a blade, circular, the Spore globular cases numerous 
and deeper black; “Alapap” in Mano bo. Cabadbaran, August, 
19124 
135426 Calamus megaphyllus BEGG. Ne SP. A looping 
elimber in wet humus covered Soil of a densely forested 
flat at 750 feet; stem ringed and thickened at the ground, 
otherwise 3/4 ineb thick; wood sweet, yellowish white, 
bendable; the leaf bearing portion of the Stem nearly 2 
inches thick, dark green Smooth; leaves alternatingly 
-geattered, 1 foot apart, 10 feet long, gracefully recurved, 
the rachis. extending into a hooked dangling flagella; 
rachis with a smooth sheath and Shoulder, Smooth below 
and spinescent on the upper side below the middie, the 
terminal half reversed, leaf bearing clear to the base 
although the basal ones are much reduced or dwarfed; 
leaflets strongly recurved and forming a basket Space on 
the under side;.8trongly papyraceous, very dark green; 
infrutescence axillary, 6 te 10 feet ljong,.pendent, branched 
alternating, the internodal dull green Sheaths sparsely 
spinescent; the fruit. bearing ultimately branchlets 
ascendingly curved; nuts globosely ellipsoid, not exceeding 
1/2 inch long, rather light green; “Bamakbo" in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, Augu®t, 1912.6 
18543, oemelia subrotundifolia Bim. . Small erect 
tree. in good moist soil of a densely forested flat at 750 
feet; Stem 6 inches thick, terete, 25 feet high, Reaamhedt 
branched from below the middle; wood quite hard and heavy, 
odorless and without taste, yellowish throughout, bark 
Smooth and grayish, sappy white on the inner surface; 
main branches horizontal, laxly rebranched; leaves desecend- 
ing, Submembranows much paler beneath, nearly flat; spikes 
axillary or lateral, pendant, the dark green rachis very 
flexible; fruits at least 1/2 inch long, murinus gray, 
the inside skin tinged with atro-violaceus, with a seed 
Surrounded by a luteus fleshy membrane; “Apadgag" in 
Manobo. .Cabadbaran, August, 1912. 
13544.  Popowia polyandra (Pr.) Merr. Tree like 
shrub in moist more or less rocky 8011 of deeply forested 
fiats at 750 feet; stem 2 inches thick, 10 feet high, 
branched above the middle or from below it, quite crooked 
yet terete; wood moderately soft, odorless and tasteless, 
the outer one half white but the heartwood yellowish; 
branches slender, divaricate, laxly rebranched; leaves 
subcoriaceous, fiat, apices recurved, paler ere but 
more Shining beneath, horizontal, fruits solitary or few 

