14043. Connarus urdanetensis Blms. ns Spe A Spreading 
or reclining Shrub in humus covered well drained end more 
or less rocky Soil of a forested ridge at S500 feet between 
Duro’ and GaWilanan peaks; rather Smali reclining or 
Sprawling Shrubs; stem 3/4 inch thick, terete, branched 
@1ll along; wood quite hard and tough, white, covered with 
Smooth brown bark; twigs horizontally spreading, quite 
rigid; leaves Similarly Spreading, subchartaceous, flat 
or only the apex Slightiy recurved, much lighter green 
beneath; inflorescence divaricate or ascending, the inner 
floral organs cremeus, the ealyx and stalks green, odorless, 
young capSules Strongly recurved, trigonous, and hairy; 
"Pefigalamag" in Manobo. Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 
14044, Flacourtia Sulcata Rlm, mn. 8p. A Shrub-like 
tree in more or less rocky well drained #011 of a wooded 
ridge between Juros and Cawilanan peaks at 35500 feet; stem 
4 inches thick, 15 feet high, branched from below the middle, 
terete; wood moderately hard, heavy, turning yellowish 
after being exposed, quite odorless and tasteless; bark 
Smocth and brown on.the surface, yellowish white otherwise; 
main branches long, rebranched; the twigs rigid and brown 
covered with numerous lighter brown lenticels; leaves 
thinly chartaceous, recurved, dull green above, much lighter 
green beneath, the young ones very light green; fruits 
less than 1/2 inch in diameter, hard, globose or nearly 
80, Pale green, 4 or 5-ovuled and seeded; "Aropag" in 
Mamobo.  Cabadbaran, october, 1912. 
14045.  Homalanthus surigaoense Elm. ns Sp,  Yrooked 
Shrub-like tree in dry Soil near the summit of a wooded 
ridge between Dures and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet; stem 
6 inches thick, terete, 20 feet high, chiefly branched 
toward the tep, crooked; wood pulpy, white, nearly odorless 
and tetteless, bark grayish white blotehed, smooth; main 
branches crockedly rebranched and forming an umbrélla~lLike 
crown, twigs numerous, green, also erooked, ascending; 
leaves descending, upon yellowish green petioles, the blades 
pendant, pale green above, glaucous beneath, Subcoriaceous; 
infrutescence erect, Subglaucous green, infloreseent bracts 
erect and pale green or yellowish tinged and early falling; 
 *Bilante”™ in Manobo. Cabadbaran, october, 1912. 
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14046. Hydnophytum orbiculatum Elm. ne. Sp. 
Epiphytie and inseativorous, upon the limbs of large trees 
‘Blong a forested ridge at 2000 feet on Giwantanan; bulb 8 
inches thiek, rugose or obscurely lobed, grayish brown, 
rather Smooth, Soft in texture, coarsely honey~-combed; 
Stems Several from the upper end, ascending, 1 1/2 feet 
long, the larger ones rebranched, terete, very flexible, 
the joints roughened by the old leaf scars; leaves 
Goriaceous, pale green, easily breaking; the margins 
Somewhat curved upon the lower or Slightly paler green 
Surface; fruits Solitary or few in the leaf axiis, . 
ascending, dark green, ovoidly elongated; "“Cayambato 
in Manobo, Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 
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