15905.  Strychnos lanata Hill. Seandent shrub . 
along the jungled woods of the Dalahion river at 500 feet, 
in Stony Soil; stem terete, 1 1/2 inches thick, rigid, curved, 
branched from above the middle; wood porous, Sweet, odorless, 
yellowish tinged, with a lerge whiter colored pith; bark 
Smoothish, mottled, the hypedermis greenish, the inner side 
Sappy White; main branches long, Sprawling or the free 
portions drooping; twigs opposite, seattered, relatively 
Short, green, tough, occasionally rebranched and tendril 
bearing; leaves horizontal, folded and reeurved, paler 
_ beneath; inflorescence, erect, cdorless, the stelks with 
G@alyx pale green, the corolla Sulphureous, the throat 
hairs white, the filaments and style whitish, the anthers 
Fd alba "folanan" in Manobo; Cabadbaran, September, 
lee . 
46906. Acalypha Stipulacea Klotz. ax shrub i0 to 
15 feet high in wet gravelly soil along the pPalahion river 
at 500 feet altitude; stem Solitary or few from the same 
root cluster, terete, ascending and usually inclined over 
the creek bed; branches from below the middle, spreading, 
not mumerously rebranched; wood sappy or greenish white, 
itS pith large, very soft, without odor or taste; bark 
Smooth and brown, the hypodermis green; twigs lax and 
Suberect; leaves descending, reenurved and shallowly folded, 
pale green eSpeciaily beneath, submembranous; pistillate 
‘Spikes erect, groon except the reddish style and Stigma; 
the Staminate ones pendant; "Bogus" in Manobe. Gabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
13907.  DecaSpermum paniculatum Kurz. Erect shrub 
in moist gravelly 8011 of wooded banks along the palahion 
river at 250 feet; stem 4 inchs thick, 10 to 15 feet high, 
branched from below the middle; wood odorless or nearly 
80, tasteless, rather hard and brittle, the outer potion 
Sappy white, reddish tinged toward the center; bark brown, 
finely checked longitudinally; main brenches ascending, 
ecrookedly rebranched, the ultimate ones lax and numerous, 
eften drooping; leaves subshartaceous, ascending from 
the base, Strongly recurved, much paler green beneath; 
infrutescence subpendant, the stalks and bracts yellowish 
areen, the fruits dark and deeper green, soft and dark 
vinosus when fully ripe; “Halgus" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, 
September, 1912. 
13908. Bulbophyllum luzenense Ames, "“Camageig" 
in Menobo, ‘Small or Short creeper along smooth tree 
trunks along the Dalahion river at 1000 feet altitude; 
Stem bendable, brown Seale aovered, occasionally branched; 
the pSeudobulbs yellowish green, giving rise to a Single 
_ Suberect leaf which is flat and coriaceous in texture; 
roots fibrous whitish; pedunele arising from the rhizome 
or the basal portion of the bulbs, pale green, brown 
bracteate, erect and exceeding the foliage, buds yellowish, 
pedicels greenish, floral organs whitish; flowers odorless, 
pedicels umbellately Spreading, the buds and flowers 
ustally tipped; Cabadbaran, September, 1912, . 

