crooked and Subterete, branched from the middle wood 
white but With a yellowish brown tinge, odorless and 
without. teste, light yet tough, soft; berk fulvous exuept 
the smoothish yellowieh gray surface; main Limbs spreading, 
crooked, the Slender ultimate ones drooping; leaves 
deScending, Submembranous, nearly flat, paler. beneath; 
infloreseence Suberect, the Stalks yellowish green, so 
also, the calyx, corolia whitish toward the base, owvherwise 
Lividous,.pappus dingy white, flowers slightly bub sweetly 
fragrant; "Bogig",.in Manobo. Gabadbaran, August, 1912, 
16635. . Peperomia agu®anen®is.G. Dds Ne BPs 
Sueculent herbs upon rotten limbs lying upon very moist 
Soil of a densely wooded ravine at 32500 feet, between 
pures and Vawilanan; . Stem. creeping, oeesasionally 
branched, 1/3 ineh thick or less, green and soft in 
texture, the ultimate branches erect; leaves ascending, 
thickly coriaceous, #hining dark green above, much paler 
or yellowish So beneath; Spikes terete,. ascending or 
erect, green when young, yellowish when mature stigmas 
(?) Brown; "Selinbagat" in Manobo. .. Cabadbaran,, august, 
1912. 
14636. Vavaea Surigsoense Bim, ne Sps Ereot 
undershrub, in moist dense woods of humus covered stony 
Boil at 4500 feet between Duros and Cewilanan; siem 2 
inches thick, 10 feet high, branched from the middie 
‘or below it; main branches few and erect, rebranched; 
wood moderately hard, pale white; bark brown, Smooth, 
whitish on the inner Side, green beneath the epidermis; 
leaves atcending, diverse in sisue, chartaceovs, nearly. 
flat or recurved toward end, paler beneath; inflorescence 
erect, Stalks and ealyx green, petals yellowish, anther 
tube hairs whitish; fruite 1/4 ineh across, globose, 
Shining bright red; “Condeman" in Mianobo.  Cabadbaran, 
13637,  Blastottems: SurigscenSe Blm. te BD, . 
Perennial herbs in wet steny soil along a streamlet of 
@ deep densely wooded depressica at 2500 feet, between 
Duro’ and Cswilanan; stems few from the same root, 
10ss than 1 inch thick, esSily Mex breaking, terete, 
Gull green, branched from below the middie, 2 yards 
high or less; main brenche® widely spreading or 
Btrongly recurved, crookedly rebranthed, the ultimate 
ones Suberect; leaves descending, coriaceous, duller 
“pbove, Plat, tips graduslly recurved; dense flower. 
Cluster lateral or exillery, whitish when in anthesis; 
“Teoy" in Mancho; | Gabadbaran, August, 1912. 
26638, Sauravia urdanetensis Elm, nm. 8p. Suberect 
Shrub in a very humid densely wooded ravine at 3500 
feet between Surcs and Cawileanan, in Stony wet soil; » 
Stem erooked and irregularly round, 8 inches thick, 
20 feet high, branched from below the middle; 

