green, crooked, nodulose, 1/2 inch thick, loosely climbing 
up to 10 feet above the ground; branches descending, 2 
feet, unbranched, tough ae is aleo the stem; leaves coria- 
eeous flat, tips recurved, subglaucous or very much lighter 
green beneath; spikes ascending upon green stalke arising 
from opposite the leaves, the green or reddish fruit bear- 
ing portion also ase ending and gracefully recurved, terete, 
6 inehes long; “Sauedan” in Manobo. Cabeadbaran, September, 
1912. 
13714. Medinilia myrtiformis ‘Tri. Bpiphytie shrub 
upon the upper side of inclining large tree trunke of 4 
densely forested ridge between Duros and Cawilenan at 
S500 feet; etems several, gecending, 2 yarde long, branched 
from the base, terete, 1 ineh thick; wood hard, reddish 
brown in the center, whitish on the out@ide; bark thick, 
brown, longitudinally checked; twige numerous, crooked, 
ageending; leaves flat but strongly reeurved, lucid above, 
much paler green beneath; fruits wxeim axillary or lateral, 
upon slender and green pedicels, miniatue finally chenging 
to dull vinorus; redanon" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, Sep. 
tember, 1912. 
137215. Gymnacranthers laxa “im. n. sp. Kiddie 
ize tree in 4 humid foreeted depression at 3560 feet or 
between the peake of Durog and Cawilanan; stem 1 foot 
thick, terete, nearly straight, branched sbove the middle, 
$5 feet hish; woed soft, whitish and streaked with red 
veesela, odorless and tasteless; bark yellowieh grey 
mottled, smooth, deep latericius except the epidermis, 
with a molageal colored juice; main branchee spreading, 
freely rebranched; twige lax, dull green, subpendant, 
tips aseendingly curved; leaves descending, corisceous, 
whallowly curved upon the upper very deep green surface, 
@lauceus green beneath, spex recurved, inflorescence moatly 
lateral, laxly spreading, dull green in the bud state, 
the subpendant and odorless flowers citrinus; "Magandau" 
in Manobo. Gabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13716, Gyrtandra copelandii Sim. n. ep. Lax 
undershrub or subherbaceous in very humid humus covered 
eoll of a densely forested depression at 3500 feet between 
Duros and Cawilanan peake; eteme few to several from the 
game root cluster, reclining and rigid toward the base, 
finally ascending, unbrenched, or sparingly so, terete, 
erooked or curved, less than 1/2 inoh thick, 3 to 5 feet 
high; reots rigid; leaves of few opposite pairs, leathery 
horizontal but strongly recurved or even hanging, teep 
green above, much paler beneath: flowers in eoft clusters 
from stem, stalks reddish brown, pedicels and calyx base 
whitish, segment tips Lilscinus: corolla filaments and 
atyle white, anthers bright yellow, flowers pendant and 
am odorless; *Panabdog” in Manobe. Cabadbaran, September, 
1912. 
“P377e. liex epiphytica Blm. n. sp. Shrub upon 
the upper mnt moss and vine covered large limbs of massive 
trees in a forested depression at 3500 feet, between 
peake Duroe and Cawilanan; wood soft, white odorless and 
quite tasteless pith large: bark smooth and whitish, dull 
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