3727. Pheeanthue nigrescens “im. n. 3p. 3mah1 
tree in a very kRumid densely wooded depression at 3500 
feet ot between the peaks of Duroe and Cawilansan; stem 
6 inches thick, terete, 20 feet high, branched above 
the middle; wood soft, yellowish white, odorless, bitter. 
ish; bark smooth, dark brown, the middle portion yeliow, 
the inner side wood color; branches divaricate, slender, 
repeatedly branched; leaves subpendant, submembranous, 
very deep green above and appearing rugose, psler benesth , 
nearly flat except the Bex; fruite pendant from opposite 
the leaves, upon 1 to 3 inches Leng brown and flexible 
etelke; fruite allifeoid, 1/2 inch long, hard and green, 
turning luteus, then inearnatus finally shining black on 
the outside; “Degaus"* in Manobo. Cabsadbaran, September, 
1912. 
13728, Pomes melanoporue (Mont.) Cooke. Upon 
the lower sides of 2 nesrly decayed log lying on moist 
ground of deep woods in a depression at 3500 feet, between 
Duros and Carilenen peaks; Plates 4 to 10 inches wide, 
Lese than 1/2 ineh thick, nearly flat, marked snd black 
on the upper side, dark velvety bodiXa or black beneath, 
more or Lees rugose, forming colonies and occasionally 
few are grown together; “Ligpauan” in Manebo, Cabade 
baran, September, 1912. 
13729, Spipremnum truncatum “nel. et Krauere. 
Seandent slong amall steme of dense humid woods in a 
steep depression 2t 3800 feet between Duros and Cawilanan; 
etem 1 inch thick, somewhat compressed, ringed, green, 
tightly attached to ite support 15 feet above ground, 
erooked, speringly branched; leaves alternating, the 
areending etalke yellowish ereen; fronds horizontal, 
¢egments leathery, paler green beneath; etem curvingly 
flagellate at apex and bearing fruits; spikes yellowish 
in flower, brownih in fruit, 1 by 2 inches, terete, 
upon erect either trict or eurved green and terete 
stniks arising newly terminal end above the leaves; 
“Pasagyanit™ in Manobo. “abadbaran, September, 1912. 
13730, Spitidens longifeliue Lindl. Tufte along 
the lower side of emall stems, more or less horizontally 
exer encircling, up to 10 feet above the very humid seil 
of wooded slopes at 4500 feet of peak Cawilanan: basal 
portion of stems brown, green toward the end, terete, 
quite rigid, divaricately or descendingly spreading; 
Leaves with slender recurved tipe, green but when o14 
or toward the bese tarning yellowish to brown; capsule 
descending, along the lower side of stem; * omoy” in 
Manabe. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13731. “itrephors pictiflorsa “lm. n. sp. Small 
erect tree on a humus covered densely forested ridge of 
Giwantanan at 2000 feet; stem terete, 6 inches thick, 
20 Teet high, atraight, branched from the middhe; wood 
yellowish white, odorless and tasteless, moderately 
hard; bark smooth and greenish gray on the surface, 
otherwise wood color; main branches slender, divericately 
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