13818. Hymeno lepis platythynchos (7. Sm.) Kee. 
*“Dan¢edan” in Manobo. Cabadharan, Sevtember, 1912. 
13619. Begonia urdeanetensis fhm. n. ap. Bi or 
perennial herve in black wet and humue covered soil of 
dense woods &x in the fiat about Ilsgoon Danao at 8000 
feet; stemSnumerous from the seme cluster, terete as thick 
ae an ordinary lead pencil, reclining and quite rigid at 
base, 1 to 3 or even more feet long, branched, reddish 
brown; branchlete ascending, rather short and similer in 
color; lesves horizontal or deseending sepmkk especially 
toward the tips, very rugose sand quite rigid, dark green 
above, much paler beneath, main veins reddish beneath; 
bracte very pale or yellowish green; the short tigeag 
flower etalk ascending, the pedicel and pendant flowers 
or bude of flowers pink; “Madamo” in Manobo. Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912, 
136206, Desmodium laxum DC, Woody perennials from 
the root, in wet humus covered bleck soil around layoon Danso 
at 65000 feet; stem solitary or few, ascending, terete, green, 
tough, 2+ the woody base covered with yellowish brown bark; 
roote woody, rigid and tough; stem 1 to 3 feet high, few 
branched sbove the middle; green petioles secending, bledes 
horizonteal, flat with recurved tips, membranous, much paler 
green benesth; inflorescence aseending, upon slender dark 
@reen etalke, flowers pink, pods creen, somewhat deercending~ 
ly recurved, much flattened, incieely segmented slong the 
lower side (2 or 3); "Pamekit"® in Manobo. Gabadberan, 
September, 1912, 
1382]. Saurauis erythrothriecs ®lm. n. sp. Lax 
wk guberect shrub in very humid more or less atony slopes 
of dense woods at 65250 feet, or some shove lagoon Danao; 
etem 2 inches thick, 10 feet high, branched from below te 
middle; wood rather soft, sappy white, odorless and tastes 
lese; bark smooth and yellowish gray, more yellow on the 
inner side; main branches few, epreading, lexly rebranched, 
the twigs descending; leaves horizontal, subwembranous, 
flat, tips slightly recurved, deep green above, much lighter 
benesth; young leaves, bud bracts, pedicele and eslyx and 
the petioles usually beset with purplish heirs, flowers 
deseending, corolle white, stamens yellow (filement yellow- 
ish, anthers deep yellow), upper part of atyle pink, 
minute stigma whitish; "Malakoays” in Manbbo. Cabadbaren, 
Septembdar, 1912, 
13822, Calliearps epiphytics Bim. n. sp. 
Large epiphytic shrub upon the or rather lower lerce moss 
covered limbs of large trees above legoon Danae at &% 5250 
feet, in humid forests; main stem few inches thick, aseend- 
ing 15 feet long, crookedly rebranched; wood rather hard 
whitish, a trifle ewdet, odorless; bark gray, minutely 
cheeked and sesling, teetaceus except the epidermis; 
branchlete aseending or horizontal, yellowish brown seurfy:; 
leaves subcoriaceous, horizontal or deseendine, flat, tips 
Slightly veeurved, deep @reen above, beautifully yellov- 
ish tawny beneath; inflorescence of the mum eame color, 
exeept the whitish corolla, and red berries; "Hadolau” 
in Mando; Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
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