140654 Popowia polyandra (Pr.) Merr. Small erect 
trec-like shrub in wet humus covered soil of a densely 
Woody rocky Slope along the Catangen Creek at 3500 feet; 
stem 21/2 inches thiek, terete, 15 feet high, branched 
above the middle; wood Soft, odorless and without taste, 
yellowish tinged; bark smooth brown mottled, dull yellow 
but the surface; main branches divaricate, relatively 
long, horizontally rebranched; leaves submembranous horizontal 
or descending, flat or only tips recurved, paler green 
beneath, the young ones light yellowish green; flowers 
Smell, Solitary or in pair® and pendant from the leaf 
axils, the Stalk yellowish green, the flower yellow, 
Subtended by a brown bract or two; fruit also pendant, pale 
or yellowi8Sh green, uSually 4 divaricate fruit maturing, 
ellipsoid, hard, 8mall, fully 1/3 inch long; "Bayobayobatofruta" 
in Manobo.  Cabadbaran, october, 1912, 
i 14038. Gelonium mindanaense Elm, n. Spy "Magaloput" 
in Manobo, rect Shrub on a ary wooded ridge at 500 feet 
altitude; stem 11/2 inches thiek, 10 feet high, terete, 
branched from the middle; wood white, quite hard, finely 
grained, odorless and without taste; bark yellowish gray, 
the hypodernmis green, Smoothish; branches divaricate, only 
Spariagly rebranched; leaves Subcoriaceous, descending, 
only apex Slightly recurved, much lighter green beneath; 
fruits erect from the leaf axils, (7) the young ones green 
and subtended by a yellowish green calyx, 3/4 te 1 ineh 
across, ruber red, the seeds covered with a white coat; 
Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 
14059.  Symploces agusanensis Elm, mn. 8p. Small 
erect tree on a Steep forested incline in the saddle between 
Duros and Sawilanan peaks at 3500 feet; stem 4 inches thick, 
terete, 15 feet high, branched from the middle; wood rather 
Soft, Sappy white, slightly bitter, edorless; bark smooth 
and gray and brown mottled, the inner side wood color, the 
middle portion greenish; main branches divaricate, laxly 
rebranched; leaves horizontal, tips recurved, vory Smooth; 
dark green above, Slightly paler beneath; flowers upon 
green descending spikes, cremeus, the old petals yellow, odorlees, 
Gaducous; "Talipsay" in Manobo.  Gabadbaran, October, 1912. 
14040« . Knema heterophylla (Vil.) Warbs Middle sisea 
tree on a Steep densely wooded ridge between puros and 
CaWilanan peaks at 3500 feet, in well drained humus covered 
geod Soil; Stem 1 foot thick, terete, 35 feet high and 
branched from the middle; wood soft, light, whitish, or 
dark brown in the center, without odor or taste; bark 
relatively thick, grayish brown mottled, smooth or Scaling 
in thin irregular plates, blood red otherwise and with a 
dark red juice; main branches divericate, long, rebranched, 
the Slender twigs rebranched or rather descending; leaves 
chartaceous, descending, light glaucous green beneath, 
midvein yellowish green; flowers scattered from the short 
Stalks mx or arising axillary, buds datericious, the 
S Segments divaricate, very 

