15764. Glochidion weberi Ce Bs Rob. Low lax and 
Buberect Shrub, in wet moses govered Stony Soil of dense 
fores8tS in the vicinity of jake or lagcoam Danae at 5000 
feet; stem 1/3 inch thiek a yard high or less, terete, 
Somewhat crooked, rather tough, covered with Smooth yellowish 
gray berk, the wood soft and whitish; branches alternating, 
toward the top oniy, a foot or 2 leng, inbranched, descending, 
ov recurved, greenish; leaves descending, Submembranous, 
rugose by the nerves, much lighter green beneath, flat er 
only the tip® Slightly recurved; but qlustexs axiliery, 
green, subpendent; fruits strictly erect upon yellowish 
white Stalks, oboveid, and deeply funnel shaped at apex, 
reguler terete, 1 inch across, whitish at the shaded base, 
otherwise pleasing red or light purpureous and the Segments 
or carpels marked with faint whitish longitudinal Lines; 
"Pasogonon" in Manobo.  Uabadbaran, September, 1912. 
1o765.% Vaccinium agu®@anense Himes Me SDs Epiphytic 
Shrub upon a mossy wind-swept peak of the Masay group at 
5760 feet; stems few, widely seattering, crooked, Sparingly 
rebranched, 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick, terete; wood tough and 
hard, dingy white; bark smooth, light gray on the Stem, 
deep brown om the branchlets, dull brewn except the epidermis; 
ascending petioles reddish brown; leave heavy and rigidly 
coriaceous, ascending or deScending, folded, apex resurved, 
paler benesth; infrutescence sScending, green except the 
exposed side which turns brownish; "Dulingagan” in iManobo. 
Gabadbaran, September, 1912. 
15767.  Txore Ghartacea membranaces Elm. Hs. Var, 
Slender erect shrub in well drained humus covered Soil of 
dense woods at S000 feet along the mm Dalahion river; stem 
terete, crooked, strict otherwise, 11/2 inch thiek, 1o 
feet high, few branched toward the top only; wood rather 
hard, the thin outer portion white or nearly 80, otherwise 
yellowish, odorless and tasteless; bark brown and Smooth 
or minutely checked, latericious otherwise; branches 8pread- 
ing, oceaSionally rebranched, the ultimate ones descending; 
leaves GubmembrencuS also adescending, the marginal sides 
Slightly curved upon the much paler nether Side; peduncle 
dull inearnatus, pendant and terminal, flexible, descending 
Stalks and calyx of the Same color; the odorless and 
pendant flowers white except the roseus outer corolla ; 
Segments, stigma greenish tinged; "Bagobodon"; in Manobo. 
Cabsdbaran, September, 1912, 
15768. Piper chaba (a) ©. DO. A Flexible climber 
along Small tree atems up to 15 feet above the wet more or 
less Stony and humus covered soil of a steep wooded ravine 
elong the Dalahion river at 3000 feet; stem 1/2 inch thick, 
terete, crooked and conspicuously nodulose, at the top 
forming tangled masses; woody tissue dingy white and 
marked with radial lines, pith brown; bark thick, brown 
and Lenticelle@: branches rebranched, green, very flexible 
and drooping, nitimate tops ascendingly curved; leaves 
aleo descending, Subcoriaceous, flet, paler green beneath; 
Spikes erect, from the oppoSite side of the terminal 
leaves, green when young, d@ull1 cremeus when in anthesis; 
"Alapapan" in Manobo. CGabadbaran, September, 1912. 

