main branchee few and widely spreading, erookedly rebranched; 
wood odorless and tastelese, soft, white, with a brownish 
pith; bark cheeked and sealing in plates, dull brown and 
gray mottled, testaceus except the epidermis, sap milky; 
the 1/2 ineh thick and slender twiga aseendingly curved; 
leaves chartaceous, horigzontal, reeurved and eoncave on the 
lower paler green surface; fruits solitary or 2 or even 
Segluetered, pendant, subglobose, 1 inch across, hard, pale 
green, gubtended by the castaneus calyx; "Tagean" in 
Manobo. Gabadbaran, Auguat, 1912, 
13661. Piper miniatum (7) CC, DC. Seandent along 
small ateme up to 10 xm or 15 feet above the moist more or 
leas stony #011 of a humid wooded depression at 3500 feet, 
between Duros and Cawilanan; stem 1/2 ineh thick, terete, 
crooked and oceasionally nodulose, flexible; woody tissue 
whitish, with whiter radiations, porous: bark teetaceus 
except the dull brown more or lees densely lenticelled epi- 
dermis; branchlets very flexible or lax, dark green, forming 
hanging interlaced masses; leaves descending, eurvingly 
folded on the upper much darker green side; spikes from 
opposite the terminal leaf or leavee, the peduncle green, 
the fruit bearing portion 6 to 10 inehee long, terete, 1/3 
inch thiek, ruber red; leaves thinly coriaceous: "ianlacbayan” 
in Banobo. Cabadbaran, September, x@x2#< 1912. 
15663. ftychoraphie intermedia Beec. n. sp. —Siender 
erect tree in well drained rocky soil of a steep densely 
wooded depression at 3500 feet, between Duros and Cawilenan 
peake; stem 5 inches thick, terete and 26 feet high, smooth 
and dull gray, obscurely ringed toward the leaf crown; leaves 
crowded and imbricated at their bases, 10 feet long, graseful- 
ly reourved, petiole proper 2 feet long, rigid, dark green, 
flat slong the upper side, rounded beneath, expandéd toward 
the base; leaflete horizontal or descending, dull green on 
both sides very tough, the leaflete are paler green beneath, 
mé somewhat reduced toward the distal end; panicle of fruite 
requrved and pendant, arising from the lower leaf axils; 
pedunele a foot long, 1 ineh wide, compressed, green and 
fuligineus escurfy covered, quite bendable; panicle proper 
® feat long and as witm wide, the branches arising alternate 
ingly, only the basal or larger ones rebranched, 211 the 
stalke flexible and green, usually curved and widely spread. 
ing; young fruite dark green, then turning flevus and finally 
Purpureus short ellipsoid, at least 1/3 ineh long, subtended 
K ereen bracts; “Merighoy" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, August, 
i , 
* 
13664, Vittaria elternans Suen Copel. On mese and 
humus covered sidea of large tree trunks of « wide swept 
"hdge at 4000 feet of Cawilenan, all the way from 5 to 106 
feet above ground; tufts dense; the short rootstelke creeping, 
tparingly branched, flexible; linear fronds descendingly 
turved, coriaceous in texture, much lighter green on the under 
flat surface, the upper side prominently concave, the limp 
young ones reddish; “Manewa" in Menobo. &x Cabsdbaran, 
Sgptember, 1912. 

