12830, Pieus copelandii ©. B. Rob. Slender shrub 
upon stony or gravelly seil of river banks densely covered 
with forests alothed with vines at 750 feet; stem © inches 
thick, 10 to 15 feet long, reclining or subereat, occasional- 
ly few from the same root cluster, branched #11 along, the 
Slender flexible twigs suberect, wood whitish, odorless 
end tasteless, finely yet distinetly ringed, moderately 
soft; bark also whitish beneath the smooth yellowish brown 
epidermis, the inner portion with «a trifle latex: leaves 
horizontal or descending, flat, tips reeurved, very much 
paler green beneath, chartaceous; fige clustered along 
the branchlets, globose, 1/3 inch in diameter, dark creen 
and with Lenticelled pale green or yellowish white epots, 
when mature soft and aurantieus: the flowers deep red; 
Puerto Princesa, Mareh, 1911. 
12831. Ficus antoniana “lm. mn. esp. Rpiphytie and 
gubecandent, near the base of a large tree trunk growing 
in stony soil of wooded river banke at 750 feet; stem 
fiattish, & inches thick, irregulerly branched toward the 
baee, usually giving rise to few thick main branches from 
near the base; main branches long, horizontally spreading, 
branches a1] @lonst, the ultimate ones lax and somewhat 
drooping; stems or rather the branches few inches thick 
and 15 feet long; bark yellowish brown, or greenish, smooth, 
green beneath the epidermis, the inner portion whitish and 
nearly without latex; wood sappy white, soft, porous, without 
odor or taste; leaves quite rigid, easily breaking, fiat 
with recurved tips, muah paler green beneath, horizontally 
spreading, fige erect from the lea? axile, solitary or few 
clustered, globose except the truncate apex, 3/8 inch across 
hard, emooth, luntens, the flowers duller or peler vellow; 
Puerto Princesa, “arch, 1911. 
12632, SLadium philippinense wverr, Tussocke in 
wet earth upon ledges at 1000 feet near the river and on) 
wooded gteep slopes: stems pale green toward the base and 
at the bage covered with light straw colored sheaths, 
more or lees compressed, dark green otherwise, very numerous, 
hanging down over the ground or ledges: rootstock elender, 
covered with reddish bracts; panicle 10 inches lone, 
rather slender, 911 the rachis triangular and green, the 
epikelet bearing branchlets virgate, the bracts and glumes 
neerly umber brown; steme 5 feet long, soft; Puerto 
Princesa, sereh, 1911. 
12833, Picus ecragsitara “im, Slender erect tree 
in @reavelly soil of wooded river banks at 1000 feet; stem . 
6 inches thick, terete, 168 feet high or higher, with main 
branches arising Brom belew the middle; wood moderately 
hard, dingy white, ringed, without odor or taste; main 
branches numerously rebrenched, the asecendingly curved 
twige lax, and quite slender; bark emooth, whitish mottled, 
the inner whitish surface almost without latex; petiole 
brownieh dark green, leaves ascending or horizontal, fiat, 
dark green above, much lighter or yellowish green beneath, 
coriaceous; the slenderliy acuminate bud bract occasionally 
purple tinged; figs solitary or in paire from the leaf 
axile, suberect, in the young state shining and purplish 
sprinkled; when old soft, obovoidly ¢lobose 3/4 inch long, 
green yet 9 trifle tinged with red; Puerto Princesa, 
Mareh, 1911. 
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