139504 Pinancea infignis Beee, Rather large or coarse 
trees in humid oll of wooted depressions or on the eumait of 
wees peak at 400° fect altitude; stem 8 inches thiek, 20 te 
36 feot high, ringed toward ~~ top; wood Libers dense and mare 
on the outs ide, few and pulpy in the center, bark @ull gray 
fyonds Several, ascending, onky Slightly recurved toward their 
tips, £0 <eet long er lenger, sheath 5 fect long, thieker than 
the Stem, purplish brown; potipie 1 1/2 foot Long, very stout, 
| inchs ecross at the base, grooved above, Similarly purplish. 
beown on whe Lower ai Ass reinjggien 4 extended into the whos th: 
cy goarse, only ®lightly reeurved toward 
tk ing, " shudeaeanine paler. or yellowish green benesth, the 
ia ge Sites deseending upon the nether Bide, plicate at base, 
he £ mldveins ridged above; iniruteseenece arising from below 
the Sheath, pendant, nearly a yerd long, the glaucous green 
rechisa terete in generals the reourved pedunele flat, 3 inehes 
wide; branches alternating feos al] sides of the rachia, 8186 
glaucous green, flexible 1 1/2 : foot Longs nuts erranged in 2 
rows, Velvety purple red, less than 3/4 ingh Long, ellipeeid 
with a Bip; Le Shaped point, "Ss aa" in Nanobce; the nute ar 
used by the mountain tribes as a substitute for boetle-nut, 
Cabadburan, Oetober, 1918. 
1s968, Vernonia urdenetenee Wie, Micdle Sized tres. in 
t 9611 among stones of denreseions at 2760 feet or near the 
walt of Snroe; weed pulpy, @ingy white; bark thick, yellowish 
own and sheeked longitudina ly, Geeper brown or nearly cae- 
taneus otherwises trank 2 yo foot thiek, etubterete, 25 feet high, 
i ieennted xd a i; Ghin branches Bpreading, rebranched 
ni forming flange nbi " s @ubereet, areen; leaves eubuen~ 
oneus, pale areen ea; wy eth, midrib whitish, folded 
i. regurved + latleveasant: stalks eat invelucre grecnish, pappus 
dingy or yellowieh white; “Astabon” in Manebo, Cabedbarsen, 
septemuer, 191LEs 
lieolsa cenptriate, Ames, Ystally one stemmed 
from @nell inelining eteme or from the larger 
9 wc, ly wooded depression at 3750 ft, 
G i of Duroes peak, roots areenich and creeping; 
stem a trifle sigzag, subtercte, ver, dnlj, or dark green smaller 
| toward the base which is usie lily covered With asreescent sheaths, 
vesgending and ascendingly eurved; leaves thiekly coriageous, 
‘lgo very dark green above, slightly paler beneath; spikes sreen- 
ish, descending, the rigid and odorless flowers diveficste vellow- 
ith exeept the ‘laterteiue spotted upper end jateral organs, 
"Bagahon" in Manobo, Guba@baran, feptenter, 1918. 

