13670, Sratoxylon celebicum 51m. Small erect tree 
in fertile moist soil of secondary forests among the hemp. 
fielde along the Sinuesuang river at 600 feet or lease in 
altitude; stem 6 inehes thick, terete, 25 feet high, straight, 
chiefly branched toward the top; wood light, soft, odorless 
and without taste, white; berk gray and longitudinally 
cheeked on the surfece, otherwise yellowish brown, relatively 
thin; main branches numerously branched, forming 2 denee 
roundish erown; lax thigs drooping; leaves descending, 
thinly charteceous, conduplieste and reeurved toward apex, 
paler benesth; inflorescence likewise drooping, stalks pale 
green, buds corolla amu and young erect fruits dull purpu- 
reuse; "OGlifigon” in Manobe. Plowere odorless;  Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912, 
13871. Homalanthue macradeniuse vax « Hoffm, Low 
tree in geod hemp soil of secondary woods along the Minu- 
gueng river flat at 500 feet or lower; stem subtterete, 10 
inches thick, 20 feet high, suberect, branched at the top 
only; wood white or yellowish tinged, light, eoft, tastee 
lesa, with a slight bad oder; bark aray, only winutely 
eracked longitudinally, yellow on the inner side; main 
branches epreading, repeatedly and numerously crookedly 
rebranched, the quite rigid green twigs ascending; leaves 
erowded toward the ende of the twige, mainly horizontal, 
the petiole yellowish green, the blades thinly corisceous, 
deseending, paler beneath; bracts pale or yellowish green, 
the doresal exposed portion often reddish tinged; infrutes- 
cence erect, dork gteen, the old carpele fumosus, the seed 
cagtaneus, the earuncle flavue; "Selanti® in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, September, 1912. 
12672, Slaoxylon grandhfolium “lm. n, ap. Srect 
tree in rich soil of eecondary forested Slate amone hemp 
fielde slong Minueuang river at nearly 500 feet altitude; 
stem tefete, 1 foot thick, terete, straight, 25 feet high; 
wood soft and pulpy, slightly odorous, tasteless, white; 
bark gray, with horigontal or traneversely kan rinc-Like 
warkings, hgpodermis green, the inner one half sappy white; 
brenches divaricate, from the middle, long, few rebranched; 
twies heavy, 1 ineh thick, slightly curved aseendingly, 
conspicuously marked by the old lesf @eors; leaves sanscende 
ing, coriaceous, flat but sides twistingly curved toward 
apex, very shining and deep green above, paler beneath; 
spikes ascending, the terete rachis deep green, the odor- 
leas pale yel}ow er greenish yellow flowers caducous; 
“Salong-sagay” in Sanebo.  CGabadbaran, September, 1912. 
13873, Ferotis indies (L.) Merr. Small tufter in 
dry soil mixed with sand, among the cogon flats of the 
iinueueng river at 600 feet; steme several, radially spread- 
ing and reclining toward base, and dry bract or rather 
sheath covered, ultimately strictly erect; leaves ascending, 
soft, membranous, more or less twieting and curved upon 
the upper side, the margiis of the old blades reddish or 
purplish tinged, the green sheaths sleo reddish toward 
base; rachis dark green, the divaricate spikelets pale or 
yellowieh green, the eetee purplish brown, “Hangat” in 
“anobe, fabsdbaran, September, 1912, 
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