13577, Leesa horridsa T., & 8. Shrubelike tree in 
moist loose soil of «2 weoded embankment along the Minu-~ 
suang river at 750 feet; stem 6 inehes thick, terete, 20 
feet high, branched from below the middle; wood soft, 
watery and sappy, without oder or taste; bark brown, denre- 
ly covered with exereseences, sprinkled with sharp spines, 
isabellinus except the epidermis; branches rebranched, 
widely spreading, green and very soft in texture (velatively 
#0), mmgular and nodulose; leaves horizontal, coriaceous, 
heavy, deeply folded on the upper side and apices recurved, 
paler beneath; oorymb terminal and erect, green except the 
pale green petals and yellowish atamineal tube; fruite 
flatly globose, when mature lees then 1/2 inch across, 
juicy, ater colored; the branches also spinescent; 
*“Tonoganon” in Manobo.  Gabadbaran, Auguat, 1912. 
13578. Asplenius macrophyllum Setz, fufte in 
L00s8¢@ earth upon densely shaded land slides over ledges 
along the Minususafig¢ river at 750 feet; rhizome very 
rigid, reclining and then suberect, 1/2 inah thick, une 
branched or very s@ldom; roots fibrous, brown; stipes 
ascending, nearly black, grooved along the upper side, 
quite rigid, rachie arugineue green on the upper side; 
fronde curvingly drooping; so the pinnae which ere heavy 
and coriaceous, of the seme color as the upper side of the 
rachis but still paler beneath; quite commonly scattered 
in favorable places; "“Tilabunan" in Manobe. Don't mies 
the pretty name! Cabadbaran, August, 1912, 
13579. Ficus mindansensis Var, A climbing shrub 
upon emall trees of a more or lese wooded cliff nesr the 
tinususig river at 760 feet, in shallow earth overlying 
the rocks; stem xxx 11/2 inches thick, terete, tendobie, 
looping or loosely twining, branched toward the top; 
wood soft, sappy white, slightly sweet; bark smooth, 
eteyieh white, dark green beneath the epidermis, sappy 
white next the wood; branches widely eprawling, the free 
ende drooping, repeatedly short branched; lesves descend+ 
ing, shellowly curved upon the upper emocth surface, tips 
strongly recurved, cuite rigid and chartaceous, paler. 
green beneath; figs solitary or few elustered, pendant, 
from the very flexible etealke, umbilicus erater-bike, 
1/2 inch in diameter, globose, deep ruber red or purplieh, 
even the atalke; “Delsakit” in Manobeo. Sxeeedingly pretty! 
Cabedbaran, August, 1912, 
13580, Mrechtites petiolsata Benth, Seattered yet 
forming wore or less herbaceous thickets in wet sandy 
soil slong the still water of the Minusueng river at 750 
feet; stem & feet to 2 yards high, erect, wnbranched, 
terete less than 1/2 ineh thick, soft in texture, reddish 
tinged toward the base, the upver green portion more or 
less ridged; leaves pale green ym yet paler benesth, 
ascending, finally horizental or recurved, very soft 
coriaceous; inflorescence branched toward the top, the 
axillary branches erect or nearly 80, corolla deep 
lilacinus or subviolaceus; pappus silky pure white, 
“Tietiz” in Manobo,  uzumky Cabadbaran, August, 1912. 

