13684, Piper brevistiamum %. [¢C. n. #p. CLimbing 
along middle sized tree stems up to 20 feet high, in 
molet good seil of dense foreste near th an open ridge 
at 3500 feet between Buroee and Cawilanan; stem bendable, 
l ineh thick terete, nodulose, branched all along except 
toward the ground; wood eweetiah, yellowish white, with 
very marked radiations, pith large; bark smooth, #ratix 
blotched; branches a few feet to a few yardd long, des- 
ecending, rebranched, the ultimate twigs secendingly curved; 
lesvee descending or at most horizontal, coriaceous, 
nearly flat, p»sler green beneath spikes arising from 
opposite the leaves,pendant, the rachis ususlly curved 
and glaucous green, young fruite dull creen, turning 
inearnatus or roseue when ripe; “Ianshon” in Manobo. 
Gabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13684, tmilax reticulsts #lm, n, ap. SprewlLing 
and climbing vines upon woeded jungles at 3500 feet in 
* humid depression between Duros and Sawilanan peake; 
stem 1/3 inch thick, greenish, rigid and wiry, oceasion- 
ally branched, the free portion hanging, sendant leaves 
descending, the dull red petiole ascendingly eurved and 
usually with a pair of tendrils, felded and stronely 
recurved, veine beneath dull yellow; the axillary fruits 
hanging, 211 nearly sulphureus, hard and shining, hanging; 
*Simbanag” in ¥anobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13685, Astronia rolfei Vid, Smell tree in a 
densely wooded steep depression st 3800 feet between 
Duvog and Cewilenan, in moist rich soil; stem 8 inches 
thiek, 20 feet high, subterete, branched toward the top; 
wood rather hard, odorless and taetelese, whitieh on the 
outeide, duller or even avellaneus in the center; bark 
of the eame heartwood color, sealing in thin plates; 
main branches spreading, rebranched; leaves coriaceous, 
flat with recurved pointe, much paler green beneath; 
infrutescence erect, reddigh brown; “Gatufigan” in Manobo,. 
Sabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13686. Lentinus javanicue Lev. Upon nearly 
decayed limbs lying on moist ground in 2 forested depres- 
sion at 3500 feet, between the peaks of Duros and Cawilanan; 
stem spongy, fumosus, terete, strict, enlarged somewhat 
at base, and apex; head limo and @ry, very deeply sunken 
at apex, margins reeurved, avelianeue sbeve, ochrolencus 
beneath, edges recurved and wavy; "“Decausen” in Hanobo, 
Sabadbarean, September, 1912. 
13687. Piper costulatum ¢. DC, Lew and lax suf. 
frutescent plant climbing few feet along the ground portion 
of small stems, in a very humid densely forested steep 
Slope at 5000 feet of Masay; stem lax or flexible, terete 
and nodulese, ac thiek as = slate pencil, covered by 2 
stemineus cortex+like bark, branches horizontal, green, 
rebranched, newrly herbaceous; leeves similarly epreadinc, 
flat, membranous, much paler green beneath, margins rurcose; 
fruit ageending, leaf opposed, upon @reen staike, surane 
tiacus when mature; “Pegetan" in Wanobo. Cabadberan, 
augumky September, 1912. 

