13769. Redinilla bagobo #lm. twining slong 
emall steme in «a very humid forested depression at 3000 
feet along the Balahion river; stem 1 ineh thick, terete 
put crooked, up to 20 feat above the moist humus covered 
soil; branches above the middle, divaricate, rebranched, 
the ultimate ones deseending; wood soft sappy white; 
bark thick yellowieh gray, longitudinally checked, len- 
ticelled en the branched; brownish etherwise; leaves 
coriaceous, shellowly curved on the upper darker green 
gurface, tips strongly recurved, paler green beneath ; 
flowers odorless, the young greeniah white ealyx turning 
4te rim deep ved with age, filamenta whitieh, anther 
_ wages pale yellow; "“Liwayosan” in Manobo. éabodbaran, 
Beptemoer, 1912. 
13771.  Meliosma sumatrana (Jack.) Yalp. Small 
tree in humus covered more or less etony but well drained 
soil of a dteep wooded slope near the Dalahion river 
at 3000 feet; stem & inches thick, terete, nearly 
etraignt, branched from above the middle; wood soft, 
oderlesa and tasteless, reddish brown throughout; bark 
amooth, yellowieh gray, latericius but the epidermis; 
main branches spreading, rebranched; leaves few and 
alternatingly crowded toward end of aseendingly curved 
twigs; leaves heavy, horizontal petiole much thickened 
at base, vetiolule ascending lise thickened; leaflets 
leathery recurved or descending, shining on both sides 
but paler beneath; twisted and strongly reeurved toward 
er at apex; infrutescence ascending, terminal, 6 to 16 
inches long, green, the obovoidly Mlobose fruite lees 
then 1/2 inoh saeroes; “Yagabogen" in Manobo.  CGabade 
baran, September, 1912. 
3772, Arytera litoralie Fim. Suberect and 
pather emall tree in a very humid forested depression 
‘gear the Ualahion river at 3000 feet; stem subterete, 
10 inehes thick, 30 feet high, erooked, mainly branched 
toward the top; wood soft, white, odorless and tasteless , 
Light; bark smoothiah, grayish mottled, latericius 
except the epidermis; main branches spreading «nd 
rebranched, the ultimate ones ascending, leaves horizon- 
telly spreading, alternatingly seatterei; Leaflets 
chertaceous, a trifle greener on the upper shallowly 
curved surface; inflorescence terminal and erect; the 
bud«Like flowers greentsh; Cabadbaran, September, 1912. © 
, 13773. Loranthus eauliflorus Merr. Seandent 
epiphytes, in a humid steep densely forested slope at 
S000 feet near the Dalshion, river: stem slightly clesev- 
ing and turning about the limbe of ite aupport, lese 
than 1/2 inch thick, compressed, rigid, covered with 
lenticelled yellowish gray bark, oecasionally giving 
off a branch or a group of branches: branchlets droop 
ing, lax, terete, ereen; leaves very heavy, hanging, 
paler beneath, usually twisted toward apex, fiat, thick 
and leathery; fruite in mall eubsessile clusters, along 
the branchlets, ellipsoid, 1/4 ineh long; “Tagdoan” 
in Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
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