the top; wood slightly bitter, yellow, porous, soft, odor 
Lese; bark longitudinally deeply creased, avellaneus on 
the surface, deeper brown otherwise; branches long, spraw le 
ing and drooping, minutely shredded, tough; twigs r@latively — 
short; leaves horizontal, shallowly folded snd yecurved, 
much Lighter green beneath infrutescence terminal, short, 
or long, ascending usually; fruits yellowish green with 4 
reddish colored wings; “Libati¢-bibafic” in Manobo: 
Gabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13842, Argostemma soleniflorum “1m. Suberect suc- 
eulent herb, in compact wet snd humus covered soil of 4 
densely wooded steep slope at 4500 feet of Cawilanan; stem 
terete, dark green, 1/4 inch thick, oceasionslly few branched 
toward the top, vancing from an inch to 6 inches in height; 
Leaves descending down hill, thinly coriseeeus, dark metalic 
areen above except the light green zone along the midrib, 
very pale green beneath, flet or apex gradually recurved; 
flowers terminal,, in emell clustere, pendent, green except 
the white corelie dnd yellow enthere, odorless; infrutes- 
cence guberect, pale green; “Anonapofig" in Manobo; 
Cabadkearnan, Geptember, 191%. 
13843. Btaurogyne ciliats Slam, n. ep. Suceulent 
herb, in compact humue covered soil of a densely wooded 
steep slope at 4500 feet of Cawileansn; stem 1/4 inch thick, 
reclining at base, terete, erect, up to 6 inehes high, 
occasionally short branched at top; leaves thinly coria- 
ceous, very pale green beneath, deep green sbove, horigonts. 
ov desea@nding down hill, flet, margins rugose, apex recurved; 
inflorpecence sseending or horizontal, the slender stalks 
nearly castenéus, calyx green, corolla white, flowers asecend= 
ing and, odorless; “Saghot” in Manobo, tabadbsran, 
September, 1912. 
13844, Melicope mindanaensis “Lm. n. op. Suberect 
tree~like shrub on a vew steep wooded and more or less 
stony slope of Cawilansan at 4500 feet; stem 6 inches 
thick, 20 feet long or high, mostly branched toward the 
top, crooked, subterete; wood white or yellowish tinged, 
Light, soft, tasteless, weetly odorous especially in 
the branchlets; bark yellowish gray, sand smooth on the 
surface, yellow otherwise except the msreen layer under 
the epidermie; mein branches spreading, crookedly rebranched, 
the lax subdrooping twige with ascending tips; leaves 
coriaceous, secending, paler green beneath shallowly 
conduplicate, smooth and ehining on both sides; inflo- 
rescence erect, green except the white cerolls and 
other inner organs; fruite derk green; “Liwaan” in Manobo 
Sabadbaran, September, 1912. 
23845. Athyrium cordifolium (21.) Copel. 
*errestrial tufte in moist compact humus covered soii of 
very steep wooded slopes of Cawilanan peak at 4500 feet; 
vhizome 1/2 ineh thick, one to few inehes high, brown 
seale covered, stipes erect or ssecendinzg, tough, blacke 
ish except the upper side toward the wa blade which is 
dull green; black roots long and numerous; fronda as- 
cending but atrongly recurved toward the apex, metalic 
g@rean above, much lighter beneath, coriaceous but soon 
wilting, the wavy sides somewhat eurved upon ghe nether 
side or surface; "Pinefigotoban” in Manobo. Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 1094 

