ascending; leaves coriaceous, nearly flat but Strongly. 
rugose by the underneath ridged and Upper depressed veins, 
velvety dark green above, much lighter green beneath; 
horizontally Spreading: bracts very pale green; male heads 
upon greenish ascending or erect stalks, flowers pale 
white; female heads in sessile axillary clusters; 
"Namancoyofig" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13832. Prosaptie contigua (Porst.) Presl. % Ps 
alata (Bl.) Christ. (This is the plant left) &% Polypodium 
obliquatum? Upon moss covered tree trunks 20 fect off 
the very hamid ground in dense forests about lagoon Danao 
at 5000 feet; tufts small, rhizome short and ereepinga, 
flexible; stipe brownish and quite rigid toward the base; 
fronds soft membranous, pendant, pale green on both Sides, 
the Segments usually curved upon the nether Side. 
"Wahipan” in Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912, 
13835, Thrix®permum robinsonii ames. _ Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912, . 
(No description) 
18635, lLinociera urdanetensis Bim, Me Spe Rather 
Small tree in humid forests of roeky 8011 sbove lagoon 
Danao at 525¢ feet; stem 19 inches thick, 25 feet high, 
Subterete, somewhat ercoked, mostly branched above the 
middle or toward the top; wood quite odorless and tasteless, 
white and yellowish tinged in the center, moderately hard; 
bark smoothish, yellowish @ray, testaceus except the 
epidermis; branches slender, divaricate, repeatedly 
rebranched, the twigs grayish white; leaves descending, . 
Goriaceous, lighter green beneath, folded on the upper 
Side and tips strongly recurved; fruiting stalks ascending 
or horizontal, chiefly lateral, 1/2 to 3 inches long, 
greenish; fruits obovoidly globose, 1/2 inch long, 1-8eeded, 
dark green and with minute whitish Spots; seed surrounded 
by a yellowish crust longitudinally streaked on the 
outside with atropurpureus; “Gobol™ in Manobo. Gabadbaran, 
September, 1912, 
16857, Piper interruptum oOpiz. Herbaceous climber 
along an old rotten snag, in a wet gulch Surrounded by 
heavy forests in the Danao Lagoon region at 5000 feet; 
stem Slender, 1/3 inch thick, subterete, greenish, very 
flexible at the top forming interlaced masses {lo feet 
above ground); branchlets Sstem-like, drooping; leaves 
descending, thickly coriaceous, tips recurved, veins 
ridged beneath, depressed above, flat or the sides sSome- 
what curved upon the nether subglaucous green surface; 
Spike axillary green, drooping (the spikes arise from 
opposite the leaves instead of axillary as Stated); 
"Nenencaling" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
15640,. Combretum Squamosum Roxb, Large tree 
climber on a densely forested ridge at $500 feet in the 
depression between Duros and Cawilanan peaks, on a steep 
ingline; stem looping, heavy, eurved, 4 inches thick, 
 ivregulerly round and twisted, branched all along toward 
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