Rig Eight Bits Ne BPs Seandent and 
led woods of wet stony banke along 
tae € 1006 feet; stem or aain branches 3/4 
inch thick, Pos ity oxesivie or at least bendable, repeatedly 
prenched, the white snd soft wooly tissue with a brown pith, 
coversd with saooth and brown pith or no bark; tWwige tough, 
green, herigental or tax drooping: leaves ghartaceoua, Bint-~ 
lerly spreeding, shellewly foldea end recurred, margin® wevy, 
a trifle paler ‘eon benesth; the hansing infrutee agenee upon 
% inches long and green stele, japminals the Tlattish green 
receptacle x inches BOCOSRs pedioels slender, green, terete, 
recurved, @preading R11 "Qivectiona 4 ‘eom the receptacles 
fruite green, sug i¢, CY more elongated and ellipsoid 
in general shape; “Hugauate an” in Manobo, Gabadibaran, Sep- 
tember, 1912, 
19881,  ‘Sclanum minéensense Blmy ne Bp. “uite rigid 
shrubs for their size in demp esteny 6011 ef a densel yphaded 
steap Slope near the Gatengen creek at BOO00 feet; stem round, 
the thigkness of e lead p pap og erest and few branched, @ yard 
high; branches divurieste, green, horisentelly spre nding; 
leaves OLD TETO Ue, horisontel main nearly flat, velvety 
ayeen above, much lighter or relatively yellowish green be- 
neath, the theese veine livi¢us; flowers pendant, the pedicels 
on lyx- groen, gorella white, anthers light yellow, fruits 
ugeanbeftican” in Yenobo. veabadbaran, ceptember, LYLE. 
19882,  Syrtendra uréanetenei® Elim. ny Sp. Lew and 
saffrutescent plants, in leose dry or husne covered earth snong 
Stones ox densely shadad steep Blepes along the Gatangen ereer 
8, stene numerens from the seme root eluster, as- 
i ones descending, ranging up to a yard in 
rebrane shed, somewhet erecked, greenish or gré yieh 
“the base: Jeever descending er recurved flat, 
coriaceous, Ae h lighter areen beneath; fruits chiefly at the 
ie ‘4 pores it, pon’ant down hill, terete, 1 inch long, 
1/3 te? /4 inch thik; "Pegumpufigan” in Manobo; Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
15883. Phaieria axilleri® Elms Me BPs Low seeping 
undersheub, in humvs covered rether ary soil ef decp wood 
alona e ridge of the Gatangan ereek at S000 feet; stem; sini 
terete but ercoked, quite rigid an? tough, 1/2 inch thiek, 
a yerad high or jess, oppositely brenched a ge the top; wood 
whitish, with a whiter eolored pith, teetelese, 111 smelling; 
bark smooth, yellowish grey on the surface ‘'» Greenish otherwise; 
branches horisontel, unbranched; leaves Similarly @preading, 
thinly ecriaeeous, much lighter «<reen beneath, only the tips 
reeeeyens fenite in axillary clusters, upon aveending ereen 
Sialke ovoid, less then 1/2 inch lone, yellowish end finally 
rel when mature, *nahifisyoyon” in Menobo; Cabndbaran, Sep- 
tember, 1912. 

