13665,  Didymochieens truncatuls (Sw.) J, Sm. ‘Tufte 
in gompact well drained eoil of a wind swept ridge of forests 
at 4000 feet on kx Cawilanan peak; rhizome reclining but 
suberect at end, several inches long, sbout 2 inches thick, 
rigid and hard; etipes arising from a11 sides, ascendingly 
eurved at base and erect, 2 foot to 5 yard long, subterete 
and chanelled along the upper side, dull green except the 
blackish brown bases, the younger ones covered with tawny 
seasles; fronde longer, ascending and redurved, variable in 
size; pinnae flat, spreading, shining deep green above 
(ecessionally of a metalic luster), much paler beneath, aub- 
coriaceous; "“Bagembon" in “anobo. Cabadbaran, September, 
1912, 
13666. temecylon venosum Uerr. Slender erect trée 
upon = forested wind eswent ridge at 4000 feet of Cawilanan 
peak, in humus covered more or less stony ground; stem straight, 
terete, 5 inches thiek, 20 feet high, mostly branched toward 
the top; wood heavy, hard, brittle, tasteless and odorless, 
avellaneus except the testaceus heartwood; bark thin, minute- 
ly meet checked longitudinally, erayieh; branches spreadinz, 
erookedly and numerously rebranched, rigid, the ultimate 
ones subpendant; leaves horizontal or descending, twisted 
and reeurved toward the spex, chartaceous and much lighter 
green benesth; infrutescence mainly in small laters] clusters, 
divarieately spreading; fruits pale green, distinetly ovoidly 
globose, at least 1/3 ineh long; “Giesyan" in Manobo, 
Gabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13667. Peyehotria arusanensie Sim. n. #p., Seandent 
upon small trees up to 20 feet shove ground, on 2 forested 
wind ewept ridge of Cawilanan at 4000 feet, in dry humus 
covered atony soil; stem flexible, terete but crooked, 
nearly 1 ineh thick, looping, branched at the top; wood soft, 
porous, sappy, oderlese and quite tasteless; berk thick, 
blackish brown and emooth on the surface, otherwise nearly 
atropurpureus; branches rebranched, forming henging inter- 
laced masses; twigs green and aseendingly curved: lesves 
thinly coriseeous, shining deep green above, horizontal 
but pointes etrong@ly recurved, paler beneath yet lucid; 
paniele ascending, the etalke whitish green, the amall 
oboveid fruite darker green; “Simbanag"” in Manobo. Cabade 
baran, taxa September, 1912. 
13669. %Oiospyros mindsneensis Merr. Rather small 
or middle sized tree in humus covered well drained soil of 
a wind swept ridge at 4000 feet of peak Cawilanan; stem 
1 1/2 feot thick, straight, branch toward the top, terete 
except the wadded base; wood moderately soft, the greater 
outer portion at least whitish or white and slightly yellow. 
ish tinged, quite odorless and tasteless; bark roughened 
with horizontal excrescences, blackish brown mixed with 
eray, latericius but the epidermis main branches divaricate,y 
spreading, the crooked branchlets rigid, twige lax and 
drooping; leaves descending, mena coriaceous, tips @radually 
Yecurved, much paler green beneath;ripe fruit pendant from 
the leaf axils or from the axile of fallen ones, tightly 
attached by the semiwoody 1/2 inch lone green stalk, g¢loboee, 

