13653, Conocephalue piperi Elm. n. sp. Looping and 
sprawling over jungled woode of stony Catafigan creek banks 
at 500 feet; stem 1 inch thick, subterete, bendable, branched 
above; wood soft, odorless and tasteless, white and brownish 
tinged, with a large whiter colored pith; old bark fumosue 
and exerescent, latericius except the epidermis; slender 
twigs mm avellaneus and lenticelled, tips saseendingly curved; 
leaves upon slender brown petioles, bladea horizontal or 
descending, coriaceous, folded upon the upper darker green 
surface, margins wavy; bracts ascending and curved, green 
but folded margins brown; inflorescence erect, fragrant, 
pedicels and floral heade etramineus, bracte with peduncle 
greenish; “Hanopol” in Manobo. Gabadbaran, Auguat, 1912. 
13654, Unens aguseanensiea Blm. n. sp. Small slender 
erect tree on wooded bank in sand«gravelly #011 of the 
Gatafigan creek at 500 feet: etem terete, & inches thick, 
20 feet high, only branched toward the top; wood soft, white, 
« trifle eweet, odorless; bark emooth, grayish white mottled, 
green beneath the epidermis, otherwise wood color; main 
branches spreading, repestedly rebranched; twigs green, 
leaves descending, submembronous, equally green on both sides 
but shining above; flowers pendant, the etalk and calyx 
yellowish gfeen; petale equal, flavus except the areen 
bases, Limp, rotately spreading and with recurved sides: 
stamens and pistile of the same color, odorless; fruits 
very dark shining green; “Lanoten” in Manobo. Cabadbaran, 
Auguet, 1912. 
13686,  Peeuderanthemum bicolor (Sehrk.) Hadi. 
Rreet perennial herbe in the dry gravelly stream bed of the 
Catafigan creek at 500 feet; roots profugee and tightly attached 
to the ground; stem thickened and curved at base, terete, 
yellowish gray bark minutely checked and shredded, solitary 
or few, normally branched above the middle, 6 to 36 inches 
high; branchlets angular and erect: leavee ascending, folded 
on the upper side, points recurved, pale green especially 
beneath, soft membranous; green spikes aseending, &x capsules 
similar in color and disposition, ealyx segments avelleneus; 
eorella suberect, 1/2 ineh long and segments in proportion 
\ocengionally a flewer was found 2 to 3 times as large but 
these are freake and tend to show a relation to the large 
flowered glabrous form or species);*Podel" in Manobo. 
Cabadbarag, August, 1912. 
13689, M@liola opposite Syd. n. sp. Contiguous dark 
black mesees or colonies, the sesattering individuals circular 
in shape, the fruiting masses still blacker than the mycelium, 
upon the nether side of the older leaves of “eliocese number 
13657, eelleeted on steep wooded inclines slong the Catangan 
creek at 750 feet altitude; “Aloplop” in Manobo. Cabadbaran, 
August, 1912. 
13660, FPalsaquium polyandrum ©. 8. Rob, mall tree- 
like shrub on a rocky wind swept ridge at 3500 feet between 
the peake of Duros and Cawilanan; etem 5 inches thick eub- 
terete, orooked, 15 feet hich branched from below the middle; 
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