yet still paler beneath, wash board like on both sides; 
peduncle ascending and axillary, flattened, green 
bracts suberect, segments sulphureus, anthers flavus, 
heade subpendant, the green fruite dirty brown scale 
or hair covered, a0 is ite stalk; Gavadberan, August, 
1912. 
13586. Oxymitra sauriculata Bim. n. Sp. 
"“Gawod" in Manobo,. A tough woody climber upon middle 
sized trees of humid forested finte at 750 feet; stem 
looping and turning, less then 2 men's emall finger 
thick, very tough, subterete, the whitish wood covered 
with emooth dark brown or nearly black bark; the main 
branches long, the free portions hanging, the twigs 
relatively short; leaves coriaceous, descending, flat 
or recurved toward the apex, very dark green sbove, 
subglaucous green beneath; flower pendant, axillary, 
calyx green, the thick outer petale ochraceus, winged 
or strongly angled in the bud state; also twisted, 
Cabadbaran, August, 1912, 
13589.  Arthropterie obliterata (R. Br.) J, Sm. 
Climbing slong smooth tree-trunks of = humid forested 
flat alone the Catafiean ereek at 1000 feet, in more 
or lees stony soil; stem wiry, dull green, wry slender, 
only occasionally branched, climbing rather straight 
up to 20 feet above ground, branches 2190 slender and 
erect; leaves largest and most sbundent toward the top, 
gubmembranous, divarieste, reeurved somewhet; pinnae 
ascending, shining above otherwise similarly green on 
both sides;spore bearing fronds toward the top, quite 
heavy; young sori pale green, the middle aged flavo- 
vireus, castaneus when mature, "Cagameam” in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, August, 1912. 
13590, AlLlophylus simplicifolius Radlk. Shrub. 
like tree in stony densely wooded banks of the Catengan 
efeek at 285% 1250 feet in a narrow gorge; stem very 
erooked, irregularly round and even flattened, 3 to 4 
inches across, 15 feet high, branched toward the top 
only; wood soft, odorless and tasteless, tw light, 
white and faintly yellowish tinged; bark smooth yellow- 
ish mottled on the surface, otherwise testaceus; main 
branches freely rebranched and horizontally spreading, 
the slender twige half drooping; the flat leaves simi- 
larly spreading, slightly paler beneath, dull green 
above, thinly coriaceous; the 6 inches long green 
spikee ascending, horizontal or even descending, the 
pedicels and calyx pale green, the petals and stamens 
atranineus, the odorless flowers divariaate and deci- 
er i “Nanhifigon” in Manebo. Cabadboran, August, 
i191 
13593. Fieus integrifolisa "im. Seandent shrub 
among bowldere of a narrow cut slong the Catanga 
ereek at 1500 feet, near the etream and in dense woods; 
tem 4 inches thick, terete, 10 to 15 feet high, 
branched from below the middle; wood white, soft and 
pulpy, pith large and similarly colored, bark grayish 
@reen, emooth, brownish for the middie and inner portion 
with latex; branchlets lex, widely spreading, the twige 
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