the upper Side; inflorescence subpendant, greenish white, 
the paniculate Staminate ones fragile and usually from 
- the lower leaf axils or lateral, the sessile pistillate 
heads in the upper leaf axils or rather toward the upper 
ones and above the male one®; “Mearayhay" in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, August, 1912. 
13603. ‘richospermum cerdinale Copel. Climbing 
slong middie Sized tree trunks at 4000 feet or beyond 
Duros, in moist soil of humid woods; stem terete, 1/2 
inch thick, oceaSionaliy crooked, rather tightly cleaving 
to its support in a twining manner; wood Soft, tasteless, 
yellowish, odorous, the brownish pith rather large, 
branched toward the top or 20 feet from the grownd; 
branches descending, sparingly rebranched, descending, 
3 to 5 feet long; leaves rigid, much paler bencath flat 
with Strongly recurved points; the few flowers from the 
terminal leaf axils, upon atropurpureous Stalke, calyx 
of the Same color, corolla bright or light purpureous, 
fruits henging, terete, pale green, gradually stipitate 
toward the base, 6 inches Jong end usually curved; 
"Pelag" in Mancbo. Cabadbaran, august, 1912. 
13604. Oryptocarya laevigata Elm, nh. 8p. A gnarly 
appearing tree in moist 6011 mixed with stones of a 
wooded ravine at 4000 feet beyond Dures or between it 
and Cawilanan peak; stem 1 1/2 feet through, 30 feet 
high, irregularly round, branched from below mx the middle; 
wood bitter, tasteless, isabellinu® or oak coler murky 
@ark brown toward the center; bark thick (3/4 ineh), 
latericious except the smooth yellowish or grayish white 
‘and more or less densely lenticelled epidermis, branches 
Spreading, numerou8Sly rebranched, the ultimate ones green 
and ridgec; leaves pendant, Shining lucid green on the 
upper curved Side, chalky white beneath except the yellowish 
veins; infrutescenece axillary, suberect, green or the 
fruits subslaucous green; "“Bonay" in Manobo. Gabadbaran, 
August, 1912, | ; 
18605. Piper villilimbum (b) G. Dé. n. form. 
A twining suffrutescent plant climbing upon 8mall Shrubs 
or stems in wooded thickets in moist Stony Sei] of a humid 
depression between Yuros and Cawilanan at 3750 Leet; stem 
tightly twining, up to 6 feet, round and as thick as a 
Slate pencil, green ceeasionally branched, Strongly nodulose; 
branches horizontel or descending, a foot long, sparingly 
rebranched; leaves flat, submembranous, horizontal or 
descending, a trifle paler beneath; infrutescence hanging 
from opposite of the terminal leaves, the peduncle green, 
the rachis yellowish so, the shining fruits nearly ferrugineus; 
"“Mandasey" in Manobo.s Gabadbaran, August, 1912. 
136064 Rubus philippinensis Focke, Bs Sp. Pree 
Climbers and Sprawling over their tops and hanging from 
their sides, in moist stony soil of dente woods at 3750 
feet or between Duros and Cawilenan peaks; old stem 
terete, 1 inch thick, flexible, erooked, repeatedly 

