bearing 9 number of fronds; central fronds suberect, 
the outer ones spreading, up to 20 feet long including 
the 2 yards long stipe, stipes green, herbaceous, covered 
towerd the base with Lateticius sesles, 2 to 5 inches 
thick, ascending; pinnae recurved, heavy, leathery, 
Lucid dark areen above, much paler green, bvenesth; 
“Giafigan" in Manobo. September, 1912, 
13737. Picus pslawanensis Merr, An epiphyte upon 
large trees and forming s tree-lLike trunk toward the top, 
in a humid depression between Duros and Sawilanan peaks; 
main branches widely spreading and overerowhing the 
host, repeatedly branched; twigs tough, aseendingly 
curved; leaves rigidly coriaceous, horizonts] or des- 
¢ending, shining deep green on the upper shallowly 
curved side, paler beneath, apices strongly recurved; 
figs in divaricate axillary pairs, hard and ruber red 
except the yellowish umbilicus, the subtending bracts 
yellowish green; “Halet@® in Manobo, Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
13736. Medinilia rotundifolia Mim. mn. ep. A 
tree-trunk climber up to 30 feet sbove the very humid 
@oil of a deeply forested depression at 3500 feet, 
between Duros and Cawilenan; stem bendable, 1 inch thick, 
subterete, twistingly circling. .x2bout the tree trunk, 
repeatedly branched toward the top; wood white on the 
outside, dark Llatericiue in the center; bark very thiek, 
dirty yellowish gray and smoothish, deep latericius but 
the epidermis; branches divaricate, horizontal or des- 
gending, 19x, rebranched, lignt «ray, twigs suberect; 
Leaves horizontal, leathery, only the tips recurved, 
wuch paler or yellowish green benesth; fruite lateral, 
few, upon 1 to 3 inches long stalke, occasionally branched, 
nard, glaucous green, 3/4 inch long or high, stalks 9180 
green; "Sodufig" in Manobo. (September, 1912. Cabadbaran) 
Siar ian eninstams ater 
13739. Pinangs speciosa Becc. Small erect tree 
in etony humus covered soil of = steep ravine densely 
covered with woods at 3500 feet between Duros and 
' Gawilenan; stem 4 inches thick, terete, 20 feet high, 
ringed, gray at base, ereen toward top; sheath slightly 
thicker, a yard long, dark green; fronds spreading, — 
10 feet long or lonzer, the basal one fourth leafless, 
atrongly recurved; leaflets aleo recurved, dark 
green above, much gx¥ psler beneath, chartaceous, each 
gide ridged slong the upper side, the terminal or wider 
Leaflets irregularly cut at distal end; petiole emooth 
and green, @ inches wide at base, shallowly grooved upon 
the upper side toword base; infrutescence arising from 
below the sheath, pendant, 1 1/2 foot long, dense, the 
main reechie green, the hanging and alternating unbranched 
branchlets flavue; fruits in distichous rows, dull 
fx flavus, subtended by blackish brown bracts; “Sacolong® 
in Manobo. wood fibers dense on the outside, pulpy in 
the center, prle white; Cawadbaran, August, 1912. 

