14069.  Oypholophus brunneolus Hlm. Suberect or 
Sprawling shrubs in wet black alluvial seil of a densely 
wooded flat near the alpine lagoon at 4500 feet; stem 11/2 . 
inches thick, Subterete, the soft wood and large pith 
greenish white, odorless and tasteless, bark smooth and 
greenish brown on the surface, otherwise green; the 6 to 
10 feet long Stems repeatedly rebranched, the ultimate 
greenish twigs suberect; leaves horizontally Spreading, 
gradually curved upon the nether paler atest side, ebihins 
above, Subchartaceous and easily breaking, the green 
flowers in dense axillary clusters; "Magsaifig" in Manobo. 
Cabadbaran, october, 1912, 
14071.  Nothothixos curranii. Merr, | Parasitic shrub 
upon limbs of medium Sized trees of humid forests above the 
lagoon at 4750 feet altitude; stem solitary or few grafted 
in the Same place, 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick, terete, branched 
from the base, rigid and breaking with a snap, the woody 
tiseve yellowish green, the Surface Gull green and longi- 
Gudinally streaked with light gray; branchlets flexible, 
dull green and Smooth; leaves ascending and horizontal, 
Sickly green, glaucous or pale Sulphureous beneath, curvingly 
folded on the upper side, margins wavy toward the recurved 
apex; Spikes erect, the green fruits covered with a 
 Sulphureous bloom; "“Anucnumpay™ in Manobo. Gabadbaran, 
Odtober, 1912. 
14072.  ‘Yerminalia merrilli Wim. Large tree in 
dense forests above the lagoon baSin at 4750 feet, in more 
or less stony Soil; trunk 4 feet across, subterete or 
wadded and at base buttressed, 60 feet high, branched 
maiiniy from above the middle; main branches crooked and 
widely Spreading, ultimately freely rebranched; twigs 
relatively Short, ascending, gray and terete; leaves 
coriaceous and horizontal or aScending, Smooth and iueid, 
deeply folded upon the upper side and with recurved apex, . 
light or relatively yellowish green beneath; midyein 
yellow from beneath, rotately Spreading and crowded at 
end of twigs; fruits divaricate from the lower leaf axils, 
Stalk 1 to 4 inches long, yellowish; nut ovoidiy pointed, 
hard and Shining, green or yellowish So; wood quite odorless 
and tasteless, yellowish tinged, moderately hard but 
burly, bark thiek, brown and covered with numerous large 
exereScences, hypodermis dull red, otherwise isabel inus; 
Cananaupolig" in Manobo. Gabadbaran, October, 1912. 
14073. Symplocos apoensis Him. Small tree in a 
huwaid forested incline of moist more or less Stony Soil 
at 4750 or Some distance above the lagoon; Stem 6 inches 
thiek, terete but crooked, branched from near the middle, 
25 feet high, wood Sappy white, rather soft and wet, quite 
edorless and tasteless; bark thiek brown and smoothish 
on the Surface, otherwise white; main branches Spreading, 
freely rebranched; the green twigs ascending and usually 
in Subwhorls; leaves ascending or horizontal, strongly 
folded and reeurved toward apex, shining Steel blue or 
green above, beneath much paler, coriaceous; infrutescence 
erect, the fruits darker green, oveidly elongated, less 
than 1/2 inch long, 2-celled and 1 or 2-Seeded; "Magobalogo" 
in Menobo. Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 
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