13805, Bulbophyllum vanoverherghii Ameer. *Ayinge 
kifig"® in Manobo. Tufts upon emall tree trunks on a mossy 
windswept ridge at 5750 of Masay; stem terete, crooked, 
1/3 ineh thiek, branched and forming interlaced rather 
amall messes, covered tightly with brown bracts; leaves 
ascending or horizontal, the green and rigid petiole 
fluted along the upper side; bladee thickly corieceous, 
nearly fiat except the folded basal portion, midrib 
ridged beneath, depressed above; inflorescent spikes 
avieing from the basal side of the pétiole, arranged ae 
the leaves rachis yellowish green 96 are also the thin 
bracte at ite base, terete, striate; odorlees flowers 
soft in texture, cremeus, subpendant; Cabpadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
13806, ixora chartacea Elm. n. @p. Slender tree- 
like shrub in dry humus covered g0il of forested ridges 
at 3280 feet, in the depression of Puroe and Cawilanen” 
peake; stem terete, 2 inches thick, crooked, 10 feet high, 
few branched toward the top; wood dingy ot yellowish 
white, moderately hard, odovrlese snd tasteless; bark 
amooth and brown; main branches relatively short, divari+ 
eately spreading, few rebrenched, rigid; the subcharta- 
eeous leaves deecending, sides coarsely wavy and tips 
twistingly recurved, much Lighter or yellowish green 
beneath; inflorescence terminal or lateral, upon deep red 
flexible stelks, eslyx and pedicels similarly colored, 
corolla whitish, stigma greenish, flowers divaricstely 
epresading and odorless; fruite subglobose, light purple, 
less than 1/2 inch across; "Natigandate" in Manobo; 
Cabadbearan, September, 1912. 
13807, Polypodium heracleum Kze. Large clump 
encirtling middle sized tree trunks 25 feet above the 
humus covered well dreined soil of * wooded depression 
vetween Duros and Cawilanan; rootstock several inches 
thick, herbaceous, yellowish; fronds curved at hase, 
ariging from 911 sides of the humus filled 3 feet across 
clump, 5 to 8 feet long, ascending, quite rigid and dry; 
midrib brown at the bage, otherwise grean, sowewheat flat~ 
téned, the 2 sides beneath toward the base with ecremeus 
streaks or limes; pinnse chartaceous recurved, the sides 
wavy, reduced toward the baee to a bread irrerularly cut 
deeurrent blade; “Depa-dopa” in Manobo. Cabsdbaran, 
September, 1912. 
136808, Sehefflers salbidoebracteats Blm. n. sp. 
Rpiphytie shrub on 2 dry wind awept ridge at 3250 feet 
between the peaks of Duros snd Cawilsnan: main etems few 
upon an inelining tree trunk 15 feet above ground, 10 
feet long, spreading, rebranched; 1 ineh thick, terete, 
quite crooked or eurved; wood soft, light teetaceus, 
with a larme whitish pith; bark greenish gray,whitish 
except the epidermis, the white eap bitter; twige very 
slender, curved and drooping, sscending mu at the tips; 
petiole aseending and dark green; the coriaceous leaflets 
horizontally spreading, dull green tips strongly recurved, 
sides shallowly folded upon the upper darker green side; 
inflorescence ereet, pale yellowish green, odorless, sub- 
tended by grayish green bracts, stalks green; *Otonsliton” 
in Hanobe,. Cabadberan, September, 1912. 
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