14014.  Pothos rumphii (Pres1) Schott. A middle 
Sized tree trunk climber in wet soil of a humid forested 
flat at 500 feet altitude; branches 1 inch thick, dark 
green, terete, forming interlaced masses, 30 feet above 
ground; leaves alternatingly scattered, upon green ascending 
and whose margins are imbricately closed petioles, diverse 
in Size; the chartaceous blades horizontel or descending, 
Shallowly curved upon the nether much lighter or relatively 
yellowish green surface, tips abruptly recurved: stem 
and branches where in contact with the trunk produce a 
beard of roots, flowering spike at least 6 inches long, 
erect, upon a few inches long green peduncle, terete, 
terminal, atropurpureus as is also the deflexed Sheath 
or Spathe, fruits yellow, nearly 1/2 inch long, ovately 
ellipsoid; "Bislig" in Manobo.,  Cabadbaran, october, 1912. 
14016. iletostema brongniartianum Wedd. Small 
tufts upon moist rocks or roéky beds along a very humid and 
- deeply Shaded stream at 500 feet; Stems usually few, from 
1 to 6 inches high, ascending or subdecumbent, soft herbaceous, 
terete, dull green; leaves membranous, horizontal, lighter 
green beneath, flat, veins conspicuous beneath, depressed 
above; flower clusters pale green or greenish white in 
- anthesis, densely clustered in the leaf axils upon the 
Upper Side of the stem; "Imbis" in Manobo. Gabadbaran, 
August, 1912. 
14018. ‘Stemonurus agusanensis Elm, ns. sp, Erect 
tree in wet more or less Stony Soil along a densely wooded 
cut near a Streamlet at 760 feet; stem 1 foot thick, 
Subterete but straight, 25 feet high, branched from below 
the middle; wood soft, dingy or Slightly yellowish white, 
odorless and tasteless, with conspicuous whitish radial 
dines; bark rather thin and smooth, yellowish brown, 
teataccous otherwise; main branches divaricate, rather 
long and crookedly rebranched; twigs areen, Slender and 
flexible; leaves horizontal or descending, flat, apices 
reourved, Submembranous, much paler green beneath; 
_ dnfrutescence along the brenchlets, in 8mall divaricate 
Glusters, the Stalks dark green; fruits elongate ellipsoid, 
1/2 to 3/4 inch long, salmon colored, hard and 1-seeded, 
the Stalks are cacaSionally branched and flexibly pendant; 
"Lambuan" in Manobos Gabadbaran, October, 1912, 
14019.  Laportea agusanensis Bim, n. sp,  Shrub- 
like tree in wet gravelly or stony loose soil along the 
densely Shaded or wooded deep ravine near the stream at 
750 feet; Stem 5 inches thick at least, suberect, terete, 
15 to 25 feet high, branched from near the middie; wood 
very Soft and pulpy, quite odorless and tasteless, 
yellowish tinged; bark Smooth, yellowish brown and 
gray mottled, the inner portion wood color; branches 
divaricate, freely rebranched; the twigs and branchlets 
Slender and curved, ascending toward the leaf bearing 
tips; leaves horizontal, Slightly recurved, diverse in 
Size, the young ones very pale or light green, coriaceous, 
midvein Kmuakk beneath toward the base 

