green otherwise; stems few to seversl, ascending, a few 
inohes thick terete, 10 feet long, repeatedly branched: 
twigs green, erect or suberect; leaves descending, thiekly 
coriaceous, conduplieste and apieces strongly recurved, 
paler green beneath; the suberect spikes axillary or 
lateral, dull green ae are the pedicels and hard glebose 
fruits; "Catagyo” or Gatagdo” in Manobo, Cabadbaran, 
Septerber, 1912. 
13719. Yieus eibuyanensis “lm, A rather small 
suberect tree in good soil of 9 densely wood steep depres- 
sion st 3500 feet and between Duros and Tawilanan; stem 
6 inches thick, terete but crooked, 25 feet high, branched 
above the middle; bark smooth and brown, grayish mottled 
on the branches; yellowish white except the epidermis; 
wood quite soft, heavy, yellowish tinged throughout, 
eoncentrically ringed, odorless and tasteless or nearly 
80; main kxask branches epresding, very numerously re~ 
branched, the short twigs suberect; leaves ascending, fiat 
but tips strongly reeurved, paler green beneath; figs 
axillary, subpendant, selitary or in pairs, rough end 
flavus on the under eide, red on the upper, soft smooth 
end vinosus when fully mature on the tree; “Hagapitan” 
in Banobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912, 
13720, Ardisia sibulanensis “im, Low erect suf. 
fruteseent plant, in woist humus covered soil of steep 
densely forested depression at 3800 feet, between Duros 
and Cawilanan; stem terete, 1/5 ineh thick, greenish, 
arising from rather rigid roote, 1 to 2 feet high; leaves 
horizontally spreading, flat but margins wavy and tips 
recurved, dark velvety green sbove, much paler sxuen 
beneath, subcoriaceous; green peduncle divaricate from 
the leaf exile, pedicels light purpureus, a6 is alee the 
base of the calyx, the finely punctate segments green, 
eorolla white, anthers light yellow, the odorless flowers 
pendant; fruite globose, less than 1/2 inch in diameter, 
soft, meat white, shining light cherry red; ""elac-telac” 
in Vanobe. Cabadberan, September, 1912. 
iS721. Santhophytum fruticulosum Reinw, Low eub- 
erect. and unbranched suffruteecent plant in moist humus 
covered soil of densely forested steep depressions at 3500 
feet, between the peaks of Duros aid Cawilenan; stem dull 
green or brownish, crooked, 1 to 2 feet high, reote rigid 
and erookedly rebranched; leaves opposite, descending, 
thinly eoriaceous, flat, dull green above, much lighter 
green beneath, midrib yellowish; infrutescence in dense 
Clusters green, from similarly colored descending short 
axillary stelke, calyx green, corolla white, fruits 
YoLserAmny "Lood-Lood" in Manobo,  Cabadbaran, September, 
12, 
13722. Shefflera albido-bracteata Bim. n. sp. 
Spiphytes upon the large limbs of lofty trees in a forested 
depression at 3500 feet and between Duros and Cewilanan 
peaks; stem 1 1/2 inch thick, terete, ascending, 10 feet 
long, tepeatedly branched, crooked; woody tissue sappy 
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