twige desemding or drooping and usually curved; corisceous. 
Leaves horizontal or deseending, flat, much Lighter green 
beneath; fruits very dark green, in emall lateral clusterg, 
upon short ascending pedicels, obovoidly globose, 1/3 
inch across, the S-segmented ealyx pale green; seeds 
numerous in @ juicy puly; oe, in Menobo. Cabadbae 
ren, September, 1912. 
15813. Polypodium validium Copel. Small tufts 
hanging upon emell eteme 10 feet sbove the densely humus 
covered moist soil among lerge rocks slong the Dalshion 
river at 3000 feet; rhizome short, rigid, less than 1/2 
ineh thick, glaucous green; etipes descending, pale green 
and flattened on the upper side, turning brom expr exes 
especially beneath, very rigid; leathery fronds similarly 
disposed, pale or dull green and eubclaucous benesth, the 
sides coarsely wavy and somewhat curved upon the nether 
eide; out of the dense mass or root cluster 6 inches across 
a brown species of medium sized ante exeavated their 
cane in » honéy+combed fashion! “beooh” in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, September, L912. 
13614, Areea Caliso Beee. n. ap. Slender erect 
tree in wet deeply covered with humus among ierge stones 
of woods along the Dalahion river at 3000 feet; stem 4 
inohee thick, 15 feet high, terete; wood fibers harder on 
the outside, white and pulpy in the center; bark grayish» 
green and the grayish rings 6 inches spert toward the top; 
sheaths 5 feet long or less, yellowish, slightly thicker 
than the stem; fronds several, 10 feet lene, ascending 
and recurved; petiole proper Sxbixsex 11/2 foot lone, 
1 1/2 inch across, dark green, deeply grooved slong the 
upper side; pinnse gracefully redark green above, paler 
benesth, midvein or midveine ridged sbove; fruit clusters 
ascending, below the sheath, short. panieculately branched 
clear from the base ricid, se 6 inches long; branches 
uN Also ascending; nuts ellipsoid, 1 ineh lene, 3/4 inch 
aoross the middle, smooth and hard, turning yellowieh 
when vipe. it is used by the mountain Manobo tribe as 2. 
substitute for beetle-nuts; the branches a@ well as the 
nuts are chiefly arranged along the outer or lower side; 
"Sacolen” in Manobo. The natives also tald me that the 
juieg at certain geasons ia being use for drinks? 
Cabadbaran, August, 1912. : 
13815, Maleaxie atropurpureus Ames. n. ep. 
Succulent herbe upon deesyed lore lying some few feet off 
the very damp and humus covered soil among bow ldere of a 
wooded fiat at 3000 @long the Daleahion river; stemea several, 
agcending, more or less covered with pale green angular 
sheaths; leaves ascending and reeurved, leathery, riex 
vibe ridged beneath, and depreaged above, much lighter 
green beneath; the green and angular peduncle erect, the 
recurved flower bearing portion atropurpureus; bracts 
bude and odorless flowers deep atropurpureus or appesring 
nearly black, the central lower orgen yellow; “Pepi” in 
Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
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