13850. Pagraea epiphytica Elm. ns. sp. Large and 
Soarse epiphytes upon the large moss covered limbs of hi 
massive trees along the steep incline of Cawilanan at 
4500 feet altitude; siems few, ascending or horizontal, 
Several inches thick, 10 to 20 feet long, terete, sparingly 
branched from below the middle; wood dingy white, finely 
concentric, moderately hard, the sapwood Slightly bitter, 
odorless; branchlets long, eurved or drooping, the leaf 
bearing tips ascending, 1 inch thiek, doubly ridged between 
the opposite leaves which are from 1/2 to 3 inches apart; 
blades descending thiekly coriaceous, paler green beneath, 
with vagosely lobed thick plates which are of a darker 
green, greatly varying in size, the longer ones 2 feet 
dong; flowers sweetly odorous, 6 to 8 inehes long, 1/2 
inch thick at base, and gradually becoming larger or thicker, 
the upper half 3 inches across, the 5 reeurved lobes 2 
inches long, cremeus and sweetly fragrant; calyx deep 
green and plate-like; old mature fruits on the ground 
measured nearly 6 inches Jong and 3 inches across below 
the middle, ovoid or rather ovoidly fusiform in shape; 
“Tumagas" in Manobo. | Gabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13851. Phreatia enSifolia Ames. More or less 
creeping clusters along the mossy upper Side of limbs of 
lofty trees on a wind-swept ridge of Cawilanan at 450¢ 
feet; stems compressed, ascendingly eurved; leaves in 
distichous ascending rows, dull green, thick and fleshy, 
the Sheaths more yellowish green, spikes terminal, erect, 
pale green, the odorless flowers yellowish green, bracts 
greenish tipped; "Menholay" in Manobo. . Gabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
1685S. Da@monorepsS pedicellari® Beec. nm. Sp, 
Woody climber on a wind-Swept ridge of Cawilanan at 4500 
feet on a forested steep ineline of more or less rosky 
Soil; old stem 1/2 inch thick, green and smooth, the leaf 
bearing portion 1 inch thick at least; leaves alternatingly 
Spreading every 6 inches, gracefully recurved, 5 feet long 
Without the hooked and pendant flagella or rachi8; petiole 
proper 10 inches long, compressed, green and spinescent 
especially along the sides and beneath, 1/2 inch wide at 
base; leaves pale green, Submembranous, recurved gratually; 
Spines of eR, brown appearing somewhat reddish 
in the younger ones 1/2 ineh long and quite densely set 
Yradially; infrutescence arising few inches above the leaf 
axils, recurved, the much flattened peduncle very spinescent, 
_ otherwise Smooth, 2 feet long, few to several alternating 
branches; nuts pale or yellowish green except the brown 
bract margins, ellipsoid, 1/2 ineh long; “Hiyod" in Menobo. 
‘Cabadbaran, august, 1912, 
13854, Plectronia cyanea Elm, ne 8p. Erect under- 
Shrub in humus covered moist soil of a Steep densely wooded 
Slope of Cawilanan at 4500 feet; stem terete, 1 inch thick, 
5 to 8 feet high, branched from below the middle; wood 
quite tough, yellowish white, bitterish and slightly 
odorous; bark grayish green and Smooth, deep benath 
the epidermis; branches divaricate, the lower or longer 
ones few rebranched, green, more numerous and much 

