dull gray coarsely checked surface; branchlets few, the 
erooked twigs aScendingly curved toward the leaf bearing 
portion; coriaceous leaves recurved and folded, heavy 
and easily breaking, pale beneath, the midvein still paler 
green; inflorescence odorless, usually in olusters from 
Stem and branchlets, the Subglaucous green rachis from 1 
to 5 inches long and ascendingly curved; flowers also 
ascending an@ Slightly curved; 3 inches long, below the 
middle light ruber red, the middle portion citrinous, 
toward the & Segments and including them greenish yellow, 
filaments atropurpureous, others yellowish brown, ovary 
top Style and Stigma pale areon; "Pisawan" in Manobo. 
Gabadbaran, October, 1912, 
14055, Plectronia viridis Merr. Small erect or 
rather Slender tree in red 8011 of a wooded embankment 
in the’ humid saddle at 3500 feet between Duros and 
Cawilanan peaks; stem 6 inches thick, mot round, 25 feet 
high, branched from near the middle; wood rather hard, 
dingy or yellowish white, quite without odor or taste; 
bark Smoothish and grayish brown blotched on the surface, 
otherwise teStaceous; main branches spreading, ultimately 
numerousiy and laxly rebranched, the greenish twig portion 
drooping or aScending, heavy leathery leaves descending, 
flat or only tips recurved, much paler green beneath, the 
young ones very light green; fruits ascending, sclitary 
“orf in pairs, upon dark green pedicels, axillary, lese than 
1/2 inh long, obovoidly globose or rather obovoid only, 
obscurely angular, luteus, with 2 brown trigonous Seeds; 
*Loblobon" in Manobe. Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 
14056, Nauclea philippinensis (Vid.) fav. Small 
and erect tree in red compact soil of a humid wooded ridge 
at S500 feet, between puros and cawilanan peaks; stem 
terete, 5 to 4 inches thick, 15 feet high or higher, 
branched from the middle; wood quite hard and heavy, 
Sappy white except the brownish heartwood, without odor 
or taste; bark smooth and mottled on the surface, brown 
otherwise; main branches divaricately Spreading, rebranched; 
leaves coriaceous, horizontal or descending, recurved 
eSpecially toward the apex, much lighter green beneath; 
heads Solitary or in pairs or in three's, upon erect green 
Stalks, dark green except the dirty brown floral remnants ; 
"Qbodobod" in Manobo.  Cabadbaran, october, 1912. 
14057. ssterina opposita Syd. n. sp. Upon the 
upper Side only of Meliaceae (7?) number 14054 collected 
in a humid depression at 3500 feet altitude between pDuros 
and Cawilanan peaks; spots circular, rather small but 
numerous and often contiguous, black, the fruiting 
receptacles few and seattering; "Alap-lap" in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, October, 1918. 

