clustered, upon pele green either aseendine er descending 
gstalke, ellipsoid, shining, greenish but with maturity 
etremineus; "Palafia-pelatc” in wanobo, Sabadbaran, August, 
i9le. 
13545, Pollia sumatreans Naeek, In wet atony soil 
ef deep forests at 760 feet; stems erect, terete, green and 
nodulese, mostly reclining ot or near the base end often 
conneeted with a second and even third plants, roots wiry 
and subserial; corisceous leavee ascending or spreading in 
® resette fashion, nearly flat, membranous, rugesely wavy 
along the wargins, paler green beneath; young infruteseence 
erect, terminal upon a short and strictly erect peduncle, 
pedicels also erent from the diatel end ef the peduncle; 
fruits green, quite hard and more or lees angular; “Idog" 
in Hanobo. Cabsdbaran, August, 1912. 
13646, Boerlagiodendron agusenense Sim, n. sp. 
freet unbranched underehrub in wet more or lees stony #oil 
of dense forests at 750 feet; stem crooked, subterete, 10 
feet high, 1 inch thiek, wood dingy white, with « whiter 
colored pith, odorless, slightly bitter, soft; bark emooth, 
y@liewieh green, deep green just beneath the epidermis, 
yellowish on the inner surface; leaves alternatingly seate 
tered toward the top, chiefly horizontal, nearly flat, 
coriaceous, much deeper green above; petiole rigid, green, 
terete, thickened end ringed at the base; inflorescent 
umbel erect, terminal, subtended by reduced leaves; the 
etalkes with their subtending broets atropurpureus, 211 
erect or ascending, buds a6 well a8 the flowers surantiacus, 
the fruite turning eatropurpureus; “Hyafignoue.* Cabadberan, 
Auguet, 1912, 
13547.  Helwinthosteechys zeylanies (L.) Hook, In 
wet eleay about 9 wild heg Gathing place, in dense forests 
at 760 feet; steme solitary or few to several, gtrictly 
erect, tough, svising from = crown of succulent roots, few 
to severel inches in the ground, obecurely angled, greenish 
brown, 6 to 16 inches high, at the top bearing « radially 
apreading frond; segments submembrenous, mergine finely 
wavy or rugose, only slightly recurved, paler green benesth; 
apike erect, terete, thickest across the middie, the rachis 
greenish white, the spore cases more yellow: "“Tsawagonon“ 
in Menobo. Cabadberan, Auguet, 1912. 
1.3648, Memecylon gigantifolium @lm. n. sp. A very 
Slender tree in wet compact soil of deep forests near a hog 
wallering basin at 750 feet; stem 4 inches thick, terete, 
wavy in appearance, 25 feet high, branched at the top; 
wood hard and heavy, the thin outer portion whitish, late» 
Yieiue toward the center, without taste or odor; bark very 
thin, yellowish end smooth or flaking in thin plates more 
er less finely checked on the brenches; branches horizontal 
nearly, the longer ones half drooping, sparingly rebranched; 
leaves eeattered slonc the branches, descending, rather 
heavy and chartaceous, duller green above, the terminal or. 
young ones light green; inflorescence lateral, erect as 
are algo the fruits, stalke angular and bright green, the 
calyx yellowieh white, the other white, young fruits green; 
"Nagbabajag” in Manobo. Csabadbaran, Auguet, 1912, 
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