LS9TO.s QOrenie deoiplens montana Bect.s ns ver. Soli- 
tory tree on & very Bteep more or lebe rocky densely wooded 
slope slong the Cetangan creek at B750 feet; trunk & inohs 
thiek, terete, 30 fees high, brown and with greyish white blotches, 
more o¢ lese ringed: the solid herd wood fibers more numerous 
on the outside, quite pulpy in the center and with & clear sweet 
liquid or eap;: fronés several, the central ones secending, the 
thers etronely rseurved, 15 fect long; petiole « yard long er 
ey Ly £4 ttened toward the broadly expanded and 
inbytente bas OS lete chertacecus, alec recurved, dull 
sreen above; subal aceus sroen henecth; inflorescence 2 yarte 
lone, the upper one half profusely penicule tes the @tout more 
¢ lees compressed pedunele ascending from thelower leaf axile, 
esecending hut the branghed portion tircoping; the emoeth wiry 
@talkes very ligh Yr pale green, the odorless and pendant flowers 
OF 
moe t pollen, the bese] flowers female, the others 
om a § z 8 O01 fail ine; fruit globose, dull green, neer~ 
in @ "Sange" in Manobo. Jabadbaren, Oo 
ore ne i 
rma 
ly z | eae hex 
tober, Li 12. 
LS97is Antidespma verlenetense Mims Ry BPs Small shrub- 
like tree in well draiged more or less stony but humue covered 
#011 of ao wind-swept eteep forested elope er ridze at 3760 feet 
or near the suumit of Yurob:; stem Bomewhat ercoked and irrogu- 
lerly voundg 5 inches thiek, 1 foot high, branched from the 
middle: wood heavy, herd, nesrly avellaneus, brittle, odorless 
nd tastelesa; ge very thin, aaooth and yellowish white; 
main branches aba copeatedly rebranched, twice lax, alse 
srouked, vel lowieh e + leaves horizontel, or descending, Tlat 
with reourved tips, sides wevy townrd apex, much Lighter ‘Aree 
beneath: egg reacense Buierest, the odorless ; flowers yellowish 
and 7 ond nfrutescence pendant, the flattish 
the rachis; “Melatihan" or 
Hatekhar, LY. 
18°98. Piper baccatum Bim, inbing around small tree 
trunks on a forested windeswaept rids er S760 fect of Durcs 
peak, in } aoe covered moiat stony setts stem 13/8 inch thiek, 
a bot more or lees noduloge, bendable, branched 
roune } wood soit, aikey white, penperi#h in édor 
pres ainent m diation#; berk grayish brown, end 
pmoothibah, nearly eB beneath; branohes laxly rebranche 
the desaendi: ¥ ariel wi; ereen, leaves BLBO descencing, 
ndually ree ~ qe’ apes Ra Stott Goran pape shining 
WOOUE Z. i : A flat or gondu- 
4 aes suite ca Gad. ge %o 
chos lon: , gollowieh, the iene “mO"e “greeny "Sanbanganays" 
in Manobos atacbaran, fetober, 1912. : 
13973. vetrastigne insmm Merk. Searmient and aprawling 
upon trees and other Jungl 8 on the sumait of Durce at 4000 fret; 
main branehes terete, “ae inch thiex, very flexible, repeatedly 
branche, the soft ar endeh #oo8 covered with brown ainutely 
Gheeked bark; twig ge “sland . green, heavy, drooping; leavet 
herizontal or deroending, Lae the: iP ourved upon the fiopexy mush 
eeper anc pal yeh green 1 Burface; tatrute waENnee pen ‘ant, axilla 
ihe sreen @telke aot nomerous; eeuite ellipeeid, lease than 1/2 inch 
long, green but turning reddish brown on the exposed side; 
*"Hecitnit® in Manobo. Cabadbaran, Oetober, 1912. 
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