covered with smooth light gray bark; branches descending, . 
rather Long and freely revranched; twigs sscendingly 
curved; leaves orizontal or descending, leathery, lucid 
and dark gteen above, much lighter exmifa green beneath, 
tipa slenderly recurved, leaves coarsely dentate between 
the middle and the apex; the creamy white male inflores~- 
eence hanging from the leaf axile or from the branchlets, 
the green pistillate ones in dense flattich clusters in 
the upper leaf axils; “Cawittgecawifig” in Manobo. 
tabadbaren, September, 1912. 
£3793. Polyoenms urdanetensio Sim. n. ep. Crooked 
tree in a sheltered depression near the summit ridge at 
6250 feet of Masay; etewm 2 feet thick, irregulerly round, 
erooked, 35 feet high, branched toward the top; wood 
dingy white, edorless and tasteless, not hard out very 
teugh; bark very thick, latericius an¢ more or less 
ahecked on the @urfece, the outer helf beneath the epider- 
mis yellowieh, the inner half whitish, easily peeling 
from the wood; main branches fer, crocked, rebranched; 
twigs aseending, @ull green, long, sparingly rebranched; 
the thick leathery leaves aseending sides coareely wavy 
toward the recurved apex, lucid dark green and shallowly 
folded on the upper side, peler areen beneath; apike erect, 
green 28 is alse the calyx, corolla nearly ochroleucue; 
the fragrant fleweres rigid, divaricate, the partes in four, 
fruit hard, green, cvoidly ellipsoid, rugosely sngied 
toward the bleckish brown apical point, at least 1/2 inch 
long; "Ystgiteeen" in Manobo.  Cabadbaran, Septewber, 1912. 
13794. Gyrtandra davacensia Zn. Seandent along 
amali etems in a humid woody depression at 6250 feet of 
Measay; stem 1/2 inch thick, terete but crooked, tightly 
cleaving to ita support; the whitian weed surreunding 
the large green pith, and covered vy the amooth light 
gray bark, up to 20 feet abore ground; branches scattered 
toward the top, very ®lender, drooping, sparingly rebranched, 
the terminel leaf bearing pertion asecendingly curved; 
leathery and heavy leaves horizontal or descending, 
much lighter areen beneath, midrib whitish, side coarsely 
wavy toward the recurved apex; the green succulent fruitea 
hanging from the leaf axile, oveidly fusiform, 3/4 inoh 
long, subtended by purpligh tinged green bracts; °Tonan” 
in Manobo, Cabeadbaran, September, 1912. 
137965. Davalloder grammatieorum Copel. *Ampau” in 
Manobo, Gabadbaran, September, 1912, 
13796.  Hymenophyllum obtueuwn H & A. Dense masees 
only slong the under dry and sheltered places of tree 
ttunke of the mosey wooded sumit peak of Mesay at 6500 
feet; rhizomes musk numerous, fibrous; descending stipes 
similar; soft brown or when young greenish gray fronds — 
hanging, forming dense mesees; "Gabunon® in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, September, 1912. ag 

