13007.  Artebotrya vidalians Elm. ne Sp. A looping 
Climber and sprewling over the weods fronting the river at 
500 fect in red gravelly 6011 wnderleid with river stones; 
nain branches long, repeatedly rebranched, hanging from 
the tops of trecs over the river, the ultimate branches 
relatively short and divericetely @isposed, very tough; 
leaves horisontal, recurved, subchartaceous, flat or 
folded on the upper darker groen surface, apices abrupt~ 
ly recurved: flowers arising from recurved dwarfed branch- 
lets beneath the foliage, pendant, the pedicel and calyx 
Similarly pele green, the 6 nesrly equal in size and Shape 
segments ochraleneus,. their tips regurved towerd the center 
of the flower; stem terete or nesrly 80, 2 inches thick, 
bendable,poreus with fine rays, cdorleps and tasteless; 
bark brown, @caling is very Smell seals deeper brown on 
the inner Side; Puerto Princesa, April, 1911. 
13008. Pious iwshigensis Elms. ne Spe A Strangling 
climber upon small trees extending ever the Iwehig river 
erevel bed at £250 feet, in noist red Seil with an unknown 
dépth of gravelly subseil; stem twingng and twisting, tight- 
ly cleaving to its support, Subterete, & inehes thick, Sud- 
denly branched 16 feet above ground; branches Spresding, 
very long Say 10 feet, repeatedly branchei, branchlets 
Slender somewhat Grecping; wood soft, porous, the greater 
outer portion melleus, the heartwood dingy white, congen- 
trie rings numerow and quits evident, odorless and taste- 
less; bark grayish brown, roughened with blunt lenticels, 
otherwise testaceous exsept the sappy white inner Side, 
letex abundant; twigs with ascending tips; leaves ho« 
rizental or descending, flat or only the apex recurved, 
subcorisceous, paler green beneath; figs in pairs usually, 
from the leaf axils, upen green reeurved peduncles, ovoidiy 
ellipsoid, subterete, 3/4 inch len, with dark brown 
outer uabilieal scales, otherwise, hard ond green more or 
lees spotted with lighter green milk blotches, calyx aise 
a@vreon; flowers dingy or yellowish white; Puerto Princote, 
Bpril, 1911.4. Ue a 
12009.  Wieus pelaweneneis Morr, An inclining tree 
in red gravelly soil> of a wooded bank along the Iwahig 
river at 250 feet; eiem usually solitary but ecessiontily 
few, extending over the river bed, 1 foot thick, 30 feet 
long, subterete, branched from neer the base; branchlets 
Slender, horizontally spreading, or drooping, only Spawing- 
ly rebyvanched, tips suberect; woot quite tough, the outer 
@ inches white which ebruptly chenges to the inesrnatua 
aveater central macs, odorless and without teste; bark 
thick, grayish white blotched on the surface, brown in 
the middle region, yellowish upon exposure on the inner 
side, with letex; lesves rigidly chartaceous, stightly 
sonduplicate on the upper and greener surface, ve int 
beneath whitish or relatively 80; figs in psire from the. 
leaf axile only, herd and ruber, 3/4 inch long when fully 
ripe on the twigs, io which state it is nearly purplish 
black but the basal braet protected portion ochraceous 
exactly on the outside, algo seft when mature; Calyx 
or whorl of bracts green with yellowish margins; Puerto 
Princesse, April, 1911. ; 

