15956.  ‘Tecteria menyanthidis (#ree#l) Copel, Small 
terrestrial tufts in loose eegh upon howlders of a densely 
wooded bench along «© Sireamlet at S000 feat; rhizome 1/2 ine: 
thick, few to several inches longs, ¢ereeping, net very rigid, 
nsualiy curved, green and brown Beale covered, ccesnsionally 
orenched; roots profuse, fibeous, ell ealeng; fronds few tewerd 
the end of the #tem, senttered slong the upper side; stipes 
erect, brownish, smooth, shining, soft in texture, flatten 
along the upper Bile; eegments secending and reeurved, #ub- 
mhOnoranous, Sides xugulose, derker areen above; “Aarocampo" 
iM SenObG,  Osbedberan, September, 1912, 
13959,  Pisenia umbellifera (FPorst.) Seem. Tree in 
wet humme govered earth auong bowlders ef huaid woeds at 2000 
feet altitude; trunk 11/2 foot thick, subereet and subterste, 
£5 feet high, with few main branches trom the middle; wood 
white, pulpy and weter heavy, withowYodor or taste; bark emooth, 
brown with gray bletehss, rather thin, the hypodermis vellow- 
ish green; brenehes ereckedly rebFanched th twigs easily breake 
ing with a Snep; leaves leathery, descending, paier beneath, 
divers¢ in Size opposite er in subwhoris, young infratescence 
suberect, very pele green, alse easily brewking; “Obod~-obod" 
in Maviobe; Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 
13961, Liteeea bisclor Kims me Sp. “mall ereet tree 
in humus ¢overed S011 among S@tonee of deep woods at S000 feet; 
Stem eroeked but terete, 6 inchs thick, 25 fect high, branehed 
at the top; wood rather soft, slightly bittey, odorless, yellow- 
ish; berk testeaceus exeept the smceth and grayish mottled zx 
Suctaee; branches few, sparingly rebranehed, long, very slender, 
pre@ading; leaves in whorle 6 te 16 inches apart, mottly horizon- 
tel or deseending, diverse in size, flat, subcharteaceous, chalky 
white beneath exeept the dull yellow er frivos midrib and later- 
aL nerves; fruits eluatered along the brenehlets, upen short 
woody tubercles, ellipsoid, 1/2 to $/4 inch long, Upon green« 
ish roundly riamed eups, tarning from ercen to yellowish and 
finally deep vermillion red; "Heannace” in Manobo. Ceabadhbarean, 
October, 1918, 
18962, Fergee philippinensis Merr. smal), ereet tree 
ou a densely wooded bench at Soc feet eltitude, in stony soil 
of a Steep Slope; atem 4 inche thick, 16 feet high, branched 
from below the middle, subterete; wood soft, white only on the 
gheide, otherwise yellows; bitterieh in taste and ofor, with a 
crown pith; berk leteric us exeept the yellowish grey more or 
less exerescent surface; main branches aseending, crookedly 
rebranched; the twins lax end seecndingly curved; leaves as- 
Sending, retately spresding, nesrly fist but recurved, corta- 
coous, “laucous greeybeneath; inflerescence spreading but ascending, 
ligst @resmy yellow thoughout, odorless; "Magyan-tewan” in 
“ENODG » Gabadbaren, October, 191Z, 

