13659, Pipturus discolor ©, 5, Rob. Subseandent and 
eprewling shrub in rich humus covered soil of open jungles on 
@ forested depression between buros end Cawilanan peeke; stem — 
terete, long and looping, flexible; eweeticsh wood whitish, 
very soft, and with « Large pith; bark emooth, brown, thick, 
greenish otherwise; main branches rope-like, sprawling or 
drooping, repeatedly branched, twigs green and ascending; 
leathery leaves descending, flat, glaucous green benesth 
except the nerves; apikes axillery, aseending, green especislly 
the young heads, pistil or stigmas whitish; "Silisilis” in 
Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13660, Cyathes cineres Copel. n. sp. Tree«fern in 
rich humue-covered moist soil in jJungled woods of a guich 
between the pesks of Duroe and Cawilanen at 3500 feet; 
stem 5 inches thick, 15 feet high, dull brown and entirely 
covered by the spinescent cleaving and persistent stipe bages 
(toward the ground the humid rootlets have overgrown the spiny 
stipe bases); fronds numerous, ascending from the base where 
the etipes conepicuously overlap and cleave to the trunk 
proper; stipe’ or rachis 1 inch thick toward the base, terete 
except the lees spiny greenish and flattish impressed upper 
surface; spines black or brewnish black ae is also the lower 
and lateral sides 1/3 inch long, very sharp and rigid; fronds 
proper, 71/2 feet long, horizontsl and recurved; segments 
similarly spreading, submembranous, somewhat paler green 
beneath, more seattering and reduced toward but extending clear 
to it, the terminal ones also reduced but closer set; no 
sesle on the stipes or stipe bases along the trunk, only the ~ 
young bud covered with castaneus scales which however #xak 
fxn fall very eerly; “Paco” in Zanobo. Cabadbaran, 
13861. Sallicarpa epiphyties ®lm. n. sp. Small and 
Slender tree on a steep wooded slope of humus covered more or 
lees stony soil at 3600 feet between Duros and Cawilenan peake; 
stem terete, straight, 4 inehes thick, 20 or more feet high, 
branched toward the top only; wood very soft, light, white, 
oderless and without teste, the yellowieh brown pith large; 
bark emooth and yellowieh gray, brownish otherwise, the hypo- 
dermis greenish; main branches ascending, repeatedly branched, 
twigs horizontal and nearly lutens or more properly ferrugineus; 
leaves descending, coriaceous, fiat but tips reeurved, ferru- 
sineus beneath; inflorescence ascending, aleo ferrugineus 
exeept the whitish corelis #2 and red ripe fruits, flowers 
east *Pananatoe” in “anobe. Cabadbaran, September, 
» 4 P * 
1.3862, Tetracera oblicquinervisa “lm. n. sp. Seandent 
by twining and sprawling over jungles or over tree tops in a 
humid foreeted depression at 3500 feet or between Duros and 
Cawilanan; stem at the top 1/2 inch thick, flexible, terete 
very tough, the yellowish white wood slightly sweet and with 
distinet radial lines; bark gray, somkkeg sesling in thin 
Plates; branches *repestedly branched, the free ends droop- 
ing; the twigs divaricate, rigid and relatively short; stalke 
of infrutesecence similarly spreading, pele green, the 3 seeds 

