darker green; carpels dehiseing from apex but persistent; 
seeds yellow at first, sSubpersistent after the carpels 
are Separated finally dull miniatus red; "Balau-Balanu" 
in Manobo. Gabadbaran, September, 1912, 
13863.  Blumes chinensis (L,) DO. In rich soil of 
old clearing on the ridge between Dures and Cawilanan 
peaks at 3500 feet; stem 3/4 inch thiek at base repeatedly 
branched from near the ground, the branches.long and likewise 
repeatedly rebranched, forming densely Sprawling masses; 
epidermis of old stem® brownish, of. the branchlets green; 
infloreBeence ascending, Seattered along the terminal portion 
of the branchlets, the stalks pale or yellowish green, 
invelucre pale green, corelle tips eltrinouws, turning 
brown with age; flowers odorless and pendant; coriaceous 
leaves recurved, paler green beneath; "Laneat" in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, “eptember, 1912. 
13864, Gynura agusanense Elm. Ne Sp. Widely ®#prawl- 
ing. herbs, in fertile soil. of ebandoned clearingson the 
ridgeway. between “uros and Vawilenan, at 3500 feet; main 
branches long, repeatedly rebranched, less than 1/2 inch 
thick, terete, green and densely mottled along the upper 
or exposed Sides with atro-violsaceous; branchlets green, 
erect, leaf bearing; leaves ascending, limp, pale green on 
both #@ides, odorous when crushed, Slightly paler beneath, 
Shallowly folded, epex recurved; inflorescence ascending, 
Stalks. and calyx green, involucre green below the middie, 
atropurpureus. otherwise, exerted corolla dark ruber red, 
pappus Silky white; "Menungbagay" in Manobo. .. Cabadbaran, 
. 18865. . Bugenia banicag Blm. Ne. Sp. . Large trees 
along the stony or, gravelly flats of the Minusuang river 
and along the Smaller creek beds up to 1500 feet altitude, 
trunk terete, 3 to 5 fect in diameter, 45 to 80 feet high, 
mostly branched toward the top; wood hard, heavy, burly, 
odorless, Slightly bitter, the onter portion white and abruptly 
changing to a testaceous brown which becomes darker toward 
the center; bark greenish, peeling in elongated thin plates 
twistingly about the Stem, usually one end Separating and 
eurved from the surface leaving the brown nether 8ide 
exposed, the plates piling up around the base of the old 
trees in large heapS; main branches divaricate, rebranched; 
the greenish and angled twigs Slender, lax, usually ascendingly 
eurved; inflorescence erect, the Stalks greenish, buds 
yellowish green, petals and stamens stramineus, flowers 
_ odorless; subchartaceous leaves pendant, Shallowly conduplicate, 
recurved at apex, SideS coarsely wavy; "“Banicag" in Manobo. 
Gabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13866. Alpinia haenkei Presi. pense clunps in rich 
moist soil of secondary forests along ee river at 
5000 feet; stems numerous, erect, 1 inch thick, & feet high, 
terete, green; leaves ascending, alternatingly scattered from 
below the middle, the basal ones much reduced, Submembranous, 
much deeper green above, and somewhat folded on the upper Side, 
marginal sides rugosely wavy, the terminal blade alSo Smaller; 
Spikes terminal and suberect, green as are also the pedicels; i 
corolla whitish except the apical margins of the yellow lower lip, 
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