13561. Leen philippinensis Kerr, Ascending 
or crooked shrub upon the banks of the Minueueng river 
at 750 feet, in good well drained soil; atem few inches 
thick, terete, very crooked, 10 to 15 feet high, branched 
from below the middle; wood soft, ecardidly white, with 
a whiter large pith, ouite odorless and tasteless; 
berk avelianeus, smooth and lenticelled, green. except 
the epidermie; branches few, crooked, rather thick, 
the ends suberect; leaves also few, alternate, horizon- 
tally spresding, pedunole or rather the petiole 6 to 
10 inches long, much thickened at the base; leaf trian- 
gularly compound, triangular in shape: inflorescence 
erect, ruber, the etamineal tube eremeus, the bud 
atate even brighter red, the upper side of the 5 petals 
pale roseus only fruits dense, nearly black when mature 
and with stroeviolaceue juice, dull brick red in the 
younger state; leaves deeply folded and reeurved, much 
paler green beneath, “Babaylenon” in Manobo. Cabadbaran, 
Auguet, 1912. 
13562. Piper davaeense ¢. DC, Climbing 26 
feet high trees in alluvial soil of the wooded filets 
at 750 feet along the Kinusuang river; stem loogely 
twining about its suppor$, 1 inch thick, tere“or so, 
flexible, nodulose, crooked as are 211 Em Piper's, 
numerously branched ot the top; wood pepperish bitter, 
odorless, very soft and porous, the white radiations 
alternating with dirty white or yellowish tissue; 
bark smooth, grayish brown mottled, testaceus except 
the epidermis; branches green, tough, freely rebranched 
and forming tangled masses; leaves descending, coriaceous, 
tips recurved, much paler green beneath; sreen epikes 
pendant, the flowers more yellow; "Bitung-tungon" in 
Kanobo, Cabedbaran, Auguet, 1912. 
13583. Pisonia aculesata Linn. Yoody and epines- 
cent climber along large tree trunks up to 50 or more 
feet high with other vines, in alluvial soil of the 
wooded flate along the Minusuang river at 750 feat; 
stem 4 inches thick, crooked and twining, subterete; 
wood soft, badly odorous, tasteless, white with a 
tinge of yellow; bark minutely cheeked on the brown 
eurface, stramineus exaept the epidermis; branches 
long, hanging, divaricately rebranched, very tough 
and quite rigid the twigs with recurved epines and 
comparatively short; leaves thinly eorieceous, folded 
and recurved, paler underneath, mostly descending; 
fruite terminal, pale or more yellowish green; *Cabay” 
in Manobo. Cabadbaran, Auguet, 1912. 
13564. Cureulige agusanensis Sim. n. ap. 
“Pagatpat” in Yenobo. in moist finely gravelly or 
subsandy soil of a deeply shaded and humid fiat at 
ux 750 feet; roots ample fibrous, oecasionally the 
slender and 1/4 inch thick rootstock connecting 2 or 
wore individual plants or tufte; leaves arranged in 
5 rows, ascending; the green stalks triangular and 
g@Pooved on the upper side, sheathing toward the base, 
blades chartaceous, beautifully recurved, pale green 
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