24118, # Eugenia asu@anensis Filmy fs Sp. Small and 
@lender tree on # densely forested ineline at 4250 feet of | 
peak Cowilanan, in wed@ish seil mixed with stones and dense- 
ly huss covered; etem terete, nearly Straight, 4 inches 
thiek, 20 fest high, mostly branchet towerd the top; wood 
odorless and without teete, sappy white except the brownish 
heartwood; mocteretely soft or hard; bark very smooth and 
browa end yellowish gray blotched, otherwise testaceun; 
main branches relatively end sparingly but erookedly re-. 
branched ,leaves coriaceous, eecending or horizontal, re- 
eurved, velvety derk green aveve, reletively yellowish green 
beneath; bude globose and dark green, in Smell Sessile @lusters 
from the brenchlets only; flowers 1/2 inch eeross, spreading, 
Slightly frecrent, the deciduous petals end Stemene white or 
only 8lightly tinged with yellow; “Pagbsalayan" in Manobo. 
Gabedbaran, Getober, 1912. 
14119,  Cvreochiton diptera Tim, #Fpiphitie upon 
lerge Limbs of lefty trees along s forestexu ridge at 4250 
fect on Cawilanan peak; eten or stems 1/2 inch thick, 
terete but ereokedly eurved, very tough and forming inter- 
laced masses, repeatedly branched, the wood dingy white 
end eevered with smoothish yellowish brown bark or be~ 
coming shredded when olé, 1 to @ yards long; the tough 
twigs. ascending; leaves horisonts], shallewly folded and 
reeurved, paler green and yellowish veins benesth; infru- 
teseence seeonding, the stelke yellowish green, the flattened 
globose fruits less then 1/2 inch across and turning etro- 
Mer mm a | soft end juicy, vinosus end good to eat; Cebad- 
baran, Oeteober, 1912. 
141206 Daemonorop® ochrolepis Beee. Lofty anti 
looping tree climber on a forerted humid depression of 
Gewilenan at 4250 feet, in compact humus covered ¢lay; 
stem 1 inch thiek, green, ringed every foot; the leaty 
portion ® inches thick, derk green, with 6 transverse ring 
of spines every inch or 6o, Spines descending or the 
younger ones horisentel, 1 to 1 1/2 inch long inoluding 
the yellowish #:een solid cin, the young @pines purplish 
brown the old ener dirty 80, not Strong; leaves spreading 
and redurved, the rachis extende’ inte the dangling hocked 
Spine, 6 feet long ineluding the 1 foot petiole; petiole 
1 inch wide, flattened, short spiny slong the edges, other~ 
wise smooth, the basal shoulder else smooth; leaves every 
foot apart on the fruiting specimen; leaflet thiekly char- 
tageous, @hining and deep green on both sides, Slightly ree 
curved; infruteteensce Strongly reaurved, axillary, 5 feet 
long, @mcoth exeept for the few spines elong the edge of 
the peduncle proper, slternatingly brenehed; the fruiting 
branches diverieste, or descending, derk green; fruits flatty 
zlebese, between 1/2 and 3/4 inch long, sulphureus, except 
the brownish tips of the senles, apex brown by the numerous 
nell Besles, bese subten@ed by marcescent bracts; Pieyafigan" 
in Manobo,  Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 

