white, odorless and tasteless, pith exceedingly large and 
duller; bark relatively very thick, emooth and greyiah 
green on the surface, deep green beneath the epidermis, 
the inner and greater portion wood color, the whitish 
juice semiviseid; branches slender, sparingly rebranched, 
the 1/2 inch thick twigs suberect; petiole divaricate, 
deep green, terete, the heavy corieeeous leaves radially 
spreading, deep green but paler beneath; tips strongly 
recurved; inflorescence terminal, similarly spreading or 
more suberect, subtended by Light elaucous green bracts; 
apikes pedicels and eslyx base dark green, segments and 
stamens yellowish; “Mekinding” in Manobo,  Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
13723, Bugenia leptegyns °, 5. “ob, A rather 
small sized tree in dense woods of 2 humid eteep slope 
between the peaks of Duros and Cewilanan at $500 feet 
altitude; stem 1 fhet thick, 30 feet high, nearly straight, 
branched from above the middle, main branches ascending, 
ultimately numerously rebranched; twigs reddish brown and 
aecending; Leaves descending, coriaceous, folded and 
strongly recurved, shining above, paler green beneath; 
infrutesecence erect, dark green even the reflexed cal yx 
Lobes; wood hard and heavy, dull white the heart nearly 
eastaneue, even the sapwood with seattered linear 
eastaneue colored tissue, quite odorlese and tasteless; 
bark relatively thin, smoothieh, light esstaneus, gray 
on the surface; “Belibodon" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, 
September, 1L9iL2. 
15724, _ Diseooalyx eongestiflora “lm, n. sp. 
treet shrub in a very humid forested depression at 5500 
feet, between Duros and Cawilenan; stem terete, 1 1/2 
inches thick, 5 feet high, unbranched, more or less — 
erooked; wood soft, radially marked, the thin umm gap- 
wood whites, otherwise reddish tinged, pith large, without 
odor or taste; bark duli brown and emooth, isebellinus 
exeept the eridermie; leaves radially spreading in few 
mere or Lega whorls, alternatinglLy crowded, horizontel 
or descending, lenthery, shining deep sreen shove, paler 
beneath; inflorescences between the leaf whorls, upon 
divarieate stalke; stalke creen, compressed, 6 inches 
long at Least, bud brecte whitieh and early wilting; 
stalke and odorless flowers purpureus, very flexible and 
aoft in texture, the flowers pendant; "“Cetaas” in Banobo. 
Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13726, Piper kertheleii Mic. Glimbing along a 
smedth surfaced tree trunk up to 15 or 20 feet above the 
very humid soil of o dully wooded depression at 3500 feet 
altitude, between Duros and Cawilanan peske; stem very 
flexible, terete, crooked somewhat, greenish, lenticelled, 
the soft woody tissue in radial seetiona, bark relatively 
very thick, repeatedly branched toward the top; main 
branches descending, occasionally rebranched, 1/2 or even 
1 ineh thick, green, terete but sharply ancled; leaves 
leathery subpendant, fiat, paler green beneath; epikes 
green, aleo flexible, pendant, 4 to 15 inches long, crooked 
from opposite the leaves, fruits flavus but green in the 
young state, finelly red; “Dagoe* in Manobo. Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912, 
1070 

