13710.  Dichrotrichum urdanetense Elm. ns Sp. 
Trailing or Sub@eandent along small streams up to.a few 
feet only from the very humid moss covered rigidly wooded 
ridge at 6000 feet of mount Masay; stem 1/4 inch thick, 
very flexible, terete, branched and much curved toward 
the top, forming Small intertwining masses; leaves leathery, 
Succulent peticles reddish brown, descending or subpendant, 
much paler green beneath; flower cluster axillary, peduncle 
divaricate and green, pedicels suberect and reddish tinged, 
bracts and calyx Segments green aS is also the style, 
anthers yellow, corolla dark miniatus; "Balibadon" in 
Manobo. Gabacharan, September, 1912. 
13711. Gyrtandra greandifolia Elms Re Sp. Shrub 
& yards high in very damp more oy less stony 801] of steep | 
weeded Slopes in a humid Selaginella depression at 3500 
feet between Yures and Cawilanan; stem selitary or few 
from short prop reots, & to & feet high, 1 to 2 inehes 
thick, terete, unbranched, erect and Straight; wood very 
Bott, Bappy white, with a very large greenish pith;. bark 
characteristically cheeked longitudinally, nearly eaeseous, 
the middle portion green, the inner Side brown; leaves 
opposite and in severe] of fewer pairs toward the ends, 
deaves horizontal or descending, heavy and leathery, dark 
velvety green above, much paler green beneath, veins. 
yellowish beneath, £ to & feet long, 7 to 10 inches wide; 
twigs 1 inch thick, obscurely angular, brown; inflorescence 
ascending from the leat axils, upon thiek Short and fulvous 
heiry Stalks, bracts greenish the outer ones Similarly 
hairy; flowers several in a cluster, erect, only a few in 
anthesis at a time; calyx white and greenish tinged on 
the upper or expoSed side; corolla tube whitish, the upper 
& Segments yellowish, the tube on the lower ins ide deeper 
yellow, the lower 3 lobes purplish, style with stigma 
green, the Stamens yellowish white, odorless and sucoulent; 
"TIntay" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912, 
13712. Cyrtendre mirabilis yrfinzl. Erect or 
Suberect Shrub in black 8011 deeply eovered with humus 
and Selaginelia upon a Steep densely wooded depression 
at S500 feet or between Duros and Gawilanan; stem usually 
few from the Same root erewn, crooked and angular at 
most a few inches thick 5 feet high, branched from the 
base; woody tissue odorless and tasteless greenish and 
pith-like or subherbaceous, turning yellowish upon exposure; 
bark yellowish green, that on the branches longitudinally 
checked and cattanesous brown; branche® laxly rebranched, 
the ultimate ones drooping; leaves flat, drooping, paler 
een beneath, the veins yellowish, leathery; odorless 
flowers ascending from very flexible brown 1 to 2 feet 
jong branched Stalks arising from the base of the Stem 
and extending down hill along the groan pertiy eovered 
with hums; ¢alyx whitish with reddish tinged Segments; 
eorolla pure white; "Yodan" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, — 
September, 1912. 
‘18713, Piper urdanetanum ¢. DG. n, Sp. Climbi 
slong Stems of looping lofty tree climbers, in moist soil 
of a steep densely wooded depression at 3500 feet or 
between Dure® and Cawilanan; stems few, pale or glaucous, 
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