13797.  Acrosorus exaltstue Copel, Hanging clumps 
from the sides and nether side of deep moas covered 
inelining tree trunks on the summit of the highest of the 
wesay group or 6500 feet; rhizome pendent, flexible, 
ghort, oceasionally branched, 1/2 inch thick; fronds 
eoriacéous, shining dark green above, perfectly fist 
pinnee much paler green beneath, the o14 fronés persistent; 
Himaerima” in Manobo, Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13799. Drimye piperita Hook. Shrube from 1 to 10 
feet high, on the summit mossy and windeowept peaks of 
the Zesay group at 6000 fo 6500 feet; larger stew 2 
inches thick, terete, occasionally more than one from 
the game cluster, terete, branched from below the middle; 
wood soft, whitish, odorless and quite tasteless, bark 
brown, thin; branches epreading, sparingly rebranched, 
the leaf bearing twige ascendingly curved; leaves ecoriae 
eeous, light green, subglaucous beneath, ascending and 
horizontal, only tips recurved; twin green fruits upon 
elender ascending pale green pedicels; "“Bawafi¢” in 
Menobo,. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13800, Diplycosia urdanetensis Sim, n. sp. 
@piphytic shrub upon the inclining and deeply moss 
covered tree ##m trunks at 6500 feet or the highest 
summit peak of Nasay; stems few from the mm game cluster, 
descending mostly, a yard long at least, rather eperingly 
branched; wood white, rigid and covered with smooth 
dark brown bark; leaves horizontel or descending, 
gradually recurved, shining dark green above, mach paler 
beneath; flewere upon recurved whitish pedicels, calyx 
of the same color or greenieh white, corolla pure white 
and deciduous; flowers odorless. "Ninamol”® in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, Sevtember, 1912. 
13801. ‘Geratostylée latisepsalsa Ames. "Ducafig— 
dugatg” in Manobo, Stem solitary from small tree trunks 
10 feet above the moss covered ground of a wind-owept 
ridge at 5750 of Magay; roots fibrous, greyieh hairy; 
stem descending but ascendingly curved toward apex, 
bendable, covered with dull brown bracts; leaves al ter- 
nating, descending, rigid and thick, a trifle paler 
green beneath, flat above; odorless flowers solitary 
from the leaf axils, subpendant, subtended by brown 
rather thin bracts, the outer spreading floral organs 
miniatus, the inner ones whitish;  Cabadbaran, Septeme 
ber, 1912. 
13804, Phraetia ameeti Kr2z1, “Ambabacol” in 
Menobo. Tufts upon limbs of large trees along » wind 
swept ridge at 3500 feet between Duros end Cawilanan 
peaks; roots ample whitish green, the individual tufts 
much flettened; leaves very thick & limp recurved, deeply 
erooved slong the entire upper side, the basal imbricate 
sheath portion yellowish; spikes terete, yellowish green, 
bractented, curved but ascending, arising from the leaf 
axile, also flexible; ovary green but turning yellow, the 
white floral organs erect; flowera odorless. Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
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