2 inches in diameter, *mooth and hard, aurantiacus, sub- 
tended by a very thick quadrangular calyx column whose 
baSal tips and margins are strongly recurved, dull green 
and dark atropurpureusly Spotted; "Sobsobon" in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
136706 Pelyo@8ma cyanea Elm. ns Sp. Suberect shrub 
like tree in compact more or less stony moist or humus 
covered 801i] of a steep forested slope at 4260 feet of 
Cawilanan peak; Stem &m 8 inches thick, 25 feet high, 
erooked and subterete, mainly branched. toward the top; 
wood soft, the very thin outer portion white, otherwise 
isabellinus, heavy; bark thick, Scaling in yellowish gray 
Plates, the middle portion isabellinus, the inner side 
whitish; limbs spreading and laxly rebranched, the twigs 
ascendingly curved; leaves subcoriaceous, shining very 
dark green above, paler beneath, horizontal or descending; 
green Spikes suberect; fruits ascending, Shining, ovoidly 
elongated, fully 1/2 inch long, green but deep cyaneus when 
ripe; "ambat" in Manobe.  CGabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13671. Mallotus auriculata Merr, Erect Small tree 
on a forested wind swept steep Slope at 4250 feet on peak 
Cawilanan, in moist humus covered compact Soil; Stem & 
inehes thick, 50 feet high, branched from near the middie, 
terete or Slightly wadded at base; wood moderately hard, 
quite odorless and tasteless, the sappy white portion 
_ §Fadually changing to the ro8seus central portion; bark 
Smooth and gray blotched, nearly atropurpureus except the 
epidermis; limbs Spreading, numerously and laxly rebranched, 
twigs suberect or aScendingly curved; Leaves ascending but 
Strongly recurved, Ssubchartaceow, tips mech recurved, 
Sides shallowly ourved upon the upper deeper green surface, 
infruteseence ascending, both the stalks and capsules dark 
green; “Gaugaw" in Manobo,. Gabadbaran, September, 1912. 
.. a9672, . Begonia elegans Elm, ny, Sp. Climbing or 
rather creeping up Small Stems to 10 feet above very humid 
more or less Stony S011 of a steep forested Slope at 4250 
feet of Cawilanan; stem suecnlent, greenish, terete when 
01d covered with a smoothish yellowish gray epidermis, 
less than en ordinary lead pencil thick, repeatedly branched, 
forming quite dense interlaced masses egy Bebe Support; 
branchlets divaricate, alse freely rebranched and forming 
tangled masses; leaves descending, coriaceous, flat, 
Shining deep velvety green above except the twigs which are 
“distinctly paler green a8 is also the underside; flowers 
pendant from Sappy white pedicels, winged calyx pale green, 
petals light pink, Stigmas at least greenish; “Bonog-bonog" 
in Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13673.  Diedickea Singularis Syd. ns BERK gen. n, Sp. 
Ypon the nether leaf surfaces of Saxifragaceae number 
13670, coliected on a forested steep Slope of Cawilanan 
peek at 4250 feet altitude; black patches Small or larger, 
circular, Sparse, worm-like masses, the minute Spore cases 
blacker {a few leaves have a brown fugzy fungus of another 
Species probably); “Alepap" in Manobo. Gabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
On Some leaves another imaature fungus was present), 
J return only those leaves, which contain the new genus, 
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