13932. Pieus mepacerpea Sorts Liantelike @limber | 
upon forest trees along a dry wind-swept ridge at 3500 feet 
altitude ef Duroes peak; stem 8 Gnehe thick, dreoked and ir- 
veaulerly round, bendeble; branehed abeve the middle; wood 
soft, porcus, reddish tinged, quite oderlese end tasteless, pith 
large, bark @meoth or finely lenticelled, chalky white mottled; 
main branches few and long, relatively shert rebranched; twigs 
numerous, wixy, usuelly curved ond forming tangled masses; 
leaves rigidly chartaceous, horizontel or descending, recurved 
upon the lower paler green sije; figs hanging in @mall elueters 
from the stem, 2 inches in diameter, globose or nearly se, 
russet brow ani with numerove bright red blotehes or spots, 
upon a brown bracteste short woody tubercie; “Cataupi* in 
Menobo, Gabadbaran, September, 19128. . 
14935. Gonlothsiamas elmeri Merr, Kreet shrub in damp 
geil of @teep hucid forested slopes or ravines of Duro® peak 
at S500 feet altitude; etem 3 inch® thick, terete, 10 feet high, 
ehiefly brenched towerd the top; wooed rather soft, tough, dingy 
white, bitterish, odorless; radially marked; bark relatively 
thiek, brown and smooth on the surfece, latericius otherwise; 
pranehes spresding, rebrenched, quite rigid; coriaceous leaves 
horizontal or descending she llowly foléed ané tips slightly : 
recurved, much Lichter green benenth than the derk gresn upper 
eurfaee; flowers mainly @ingle, pendant, upon reddish flexible 
stelks, the & thiek outer petals earnogue or incarnatus except 
at the yellowish white base, the inner 3 seemens and very thiex, 
o¢erless, anlyx wed, flowers oderless; “Tanotan" in Manobo. 
Gabadbaran, September, 1912s 
LB9S4. Astronia willinmeli Uerr. imall tree in damp 
humus eovered soil of a eteep humid forested slope toward tire 
Summit of Dares af 3500 fect; stem burly, irregularly round, 7 
inches thick, 20 feet high or higher; wood sappy white, rather 
wort, quite wighent odor or taste; bork avellaneus and mere or 
less scaling, testacent but the epidermis; main brenches arleing 
from the middle, seeending, tltinetely nusereusly branched ond 
forming a flattisch crown, twice lex, ascendingiy apresding, the 
tips derk fulvue; leaves mowtiy deseending, coriaceous nearly filet, 
tips abruptly reourved, oohrolevew bencath exeept the fulvus 
veins and nerves, petiole dork fulvas; infruteseence Suberest, 
flexible, of the sameholor: loaves velvety @ark arcen above; 
"Senbolewan" in Meanobo,  Gabeadberan, September, 1912. 
2935,  <Athyrins propinqaus Copel. Me Spe Small tufts 
in damp humus eovered earth eaong etenes ef a steep censely 
wooded revine at 2600 feet or nour the swanit of Durcs poak; 
vhigome apeending, 1/2 inch thick, few inches long, becring 
an abundanee of blaek wiry coote; stipes seeending, blackish, 
Beft in texture, fronds reaurved, diverse in 6ise but usually 
a8 long ee their stipes; segments clso recurved, lighter green 
heneath, shinint above, subcoriaceous; the rachis bleak or 
nearly So beneath, more green om the uppir; "Gateo™ in MAnohos 
Gabadbaran, Neptember, 19126 

