13674. FPithecolobium scutiferum (Hieco.) Benth. 
Small erect tree in fertile e011 of secondary foreste among 
the hemp fields along the “inusuang river at 250 feet; my 
etem & inehes thick, terete, 25 feet high, branched from the 
middle; wood white, moderately soft, odorous, tasteless; 
bark emooth and light gray, with = green hypodermia, dull 
yellow in the middle, sappy white in or on the inner side; 
main branches ascending, repeatedly branched toward the 
top, twigs quite brittle, crooked, descending or ascending 
toward tops; leaves pendant, condupliaate, dull or dark 
green on both sides, tips sbruptly recurved; pode mostly 
lateral, oceasionally axillary, pendant, flexible, duli 
green or bean portion yellowish red, beans completely 
constricted end twietingly arranged in an alternating 
divericate fashion; “Tabeg’ in Manobo, Cabadbaran, Septem- 
ber, 1912. 
13875, Pinangs copelandii Seec, rect tree in rich 
mnolet humus covered soil of secondary forests among the 
hemp fielde along the *inusuang river at 280 feet; stem 
terete, 4 inches thick, 16 feet high, gray or grayish brown, 
conspicucuely ringed every = inches, the white central 
meee of the woody tigeue pulpy, the outer fibers brownish 
ang heard or st least dense; sheath 7 inehes thick, 4 feet 
long, dull green or ater colored; fronds several, 10 feet 
long, ascending and recurved; petiole 1 foot long, green, 
1 1/2 inches across, at the base expanded and broadly 
iwbrieate, exeavated slong the upper side; segmenta ascend+ 
ing from plaited bese, strongly recurved, narrower and 
reduced toward the base, much paler green benesth, rather 
limp fer chartaceous, the parallel veine green and ridged 
above, dull yellow benesth, much broader toward the incised 
and subpendant eegmente; the several fruiting clusters from 
below the sheath, 11/2 foot lone, branched 211 along the 
yellowish, green rachie which at the base is much flattendd 
and 472 inches across or wide; fruits obovoidly ellipsoid, 
1/2 ineh long, green to yellow and finally purpureue; * 
“Bagtoan” in Manoto.  Cabadbaran, August, 1922. 
A@87Gs  $Giechidion leytense Mim,  Brect shrub like trac 
in bleck moist @oi1 ef secondary forests among heap Zields at 
e609 feet along the Stax Minusueng river at 250 fee}; stem 3 
inches thiok, terete, 10 feet high, branched from below the 
mid@le; wood moderately soft, brownish toward the center, guite 
odorless and tasteless; bark aray, finely checked, testaceous 
stherwise; the few mein brenehes ascending: secondary branches 
alternatingly crowded toward the top, ascending mostly, green, 

