14163, .. Phylianthus urdanetensis Hlm nm. 8p... In 
deep forested depressions near the lageon at 5000 feet 
altitude and in moist or wet humus and mo®s covered stony 
ground; Stem erect, few inches thiek, 15 feet high, branched 
from the middle or below it;. wood rather soft, odorless 
and also tasteless, sappy white; bark dull brown, nearly 
Smooth, iseabeliinus but the epidermis; main branches 
ascending, ultimately rebranched but not numerously so; 
twigs horizontal, green, flexible, angularly compressed; 
ieaves horizontel] and Strongly recurved, paler green or 
glaucous beneath, Subcoriaceous; the mall yellowish 
fiowers in rather dense axillary clusters; "Halofig-halofig" 
in Manobo. Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 
14164. Quereus. monticola King. Rather Small. trees 
in the very wet densely forested lagoon basing at 5000. feet 
and in most and humus covered more or less rocky soil; 
stem 11/2 feet thick, terete, nearly straight, 35 fect 
high; wood whitish, odorless, Slightly bitter, moderately 
hard; bark yellowish gray, covered with brown excrescences, 
testaceous otherwise; main branches Spreading, erooked, 
ultimately numerously rebranched; twigs quite lax, ascending; 
Jieaves Subchartacecus, Shining and deep green on the upper 
Shallowly folded Side, tips strongly reeurved, paler and 
duller green beneath; spikes terminal, 1 te 3 inehes. long, 
yellowish green, erect; acorn also yellowish green, the 
rugose cup dark or dull green; "Lipacofig", in Manobo,. 
Gabadbaran, October, 1912. 
14165+  lycopodium Squarrosum Forst. Hanging from 
mo8s covered horizontal limbs 15 feet above the swampy 
ground bordering the lagoon at 5000 feet; largest stems 
5 feet long, chiefly branched toward the base, very flexible 
and dull green, terete; the root cluster dense and also 
rigid; leaves soft, descending, bright green, when old 
yellowish and the basal persistent ones brown; the ripe 
Spore cases yellow, in the region 1] to 2 inches from the 
tig end; "Bohoc-idoe" in Manobo.  Cabadbaran, October, 
pes 
_. 14166, Celamus elmerianus Beec. nu, sp, Seandent 
and Sprawling over the jungled weeds bordering the lageon 
at 5000 feet, in wet alluvial soil; stem tig gg 
flexible, a8 thick aS an ordinary leadpeneil, 1/2 to 3/4 
inch thick along the leaf bearing portion, joints very 
fine; leaves alternatingly Sseattered every 6 inches, recurved, 
their rachis extended into a much reeurved hooked tail; 
leaflets about 5 pairs, 3 inches apart, the basal pair 
nweually Smaller and near the base, parchment-like, dull 
green on both Sides, apex Strongly recurved, concave on 
the nether surface, the petiole Bhoulder smooth but ite 
Sides Spiny; Sheath dark green, provided with 1/2 ineh 
long Sharp yellowish green divaricate spines; infrutescence 
88 long a8 the leaf, ascending from the spiny peduncle, the 
‘2 to 3 branched portion smooth from above the middle and 
recurved; mature fruit nearly sulphurcous, subgiobose, 
1/8 ineh long, the bract margins reddish brown; "Salabay" 
in Manobos peduncle erising from the Side of the leaf and 
_fecurved or Subpendant. dGabadbaran, October, 1912. 
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