14167,  Denneteaeitia Hooveri Christ, Mere or less 
scattering tufte or tuesecks in wet humus overleid seil in 
humid woots berdering the legeon at 5000 feet; rhizome ereep- 
ing, 11/2 inch thiek, subterete, crooked and short branched, 
severed with brown hairs, the lower side profusely rooted; 
stipes several, erect, terete, 5 feet long, densely covered 
with easteneus heixe especially toward the base; frond as 
long, escending end recurved toward top; Segments largest 
along the aiddle, alternstingly seattered, recurved, the 
ultimate Segments aleo recurved or descending, membranous, 
Similerly green on beth sidea; rachis fulvus, the larger ones 
with faint yellowish green sife streske; “"Mageyebod" in 
Menobo; Gabadbaran, October, 1912. 
314168,  Keleastoma setosun Bim, ne B8p.e Spreading shrub 
in wet elluviel e011 of jungled forests nesr the husid lagoon 
at S000 feat; stem several inches thick, subterste, crooked, 
15 feet high or lese, branched from below the middle; wood 
sappy white, soft, witheut taste or odor,, with a lerge pith; 
berk @urface amoeth and grayish brown, eastaneus otherwise; 
nein trenches eacending, freely rebranched towerd the top; 
twige aseending green, bristig red hairy; leaves horizen~ 
tal or depeending, flet, submembranous, deep green above, 
aeh Lighter beneath, the, veins yellowish green; inflorepeance erect, 
terminal, covered with Simijler hairs, especially the esl yx; 
petals rose red or rether light pink; "Gerayan" in Menobo; 
vabadbaran, October, 1912, 
494169, <Ardisie evrtiflore “im ns Gp. Tree-Like 
shrub in wet alluvial seil of dense jungled woeds bordering 
the lagoon at S000 feet; stem 4 inches thick, terete but 
erooked, 16 fect high, bearing et the top a dense crown of 
branches, otherwise unbranched or only very seldom few 
branched: wood soft and pulpy, white, ederlese and entirely 
vasteless, with fine radial lines (e# character of Ardebin- 
eeous woods); bark yellowish brown, smooth or lighter brown 
exerescent, latericius otherwise; branches divariente and 
drooping, flexible, ebseurely angular, numerous, unbranched, 
moh redueed toward spex where they are rusty brown; leaves 
heavy and eoriececus, horizontal end recurved, conduplient@, 
dwll green, #lightly lishter beneath; bud inflorescence 
pendent, the #telks fulvus pubeseent, bude dull yellow, 
mostly clustered from the lowermost leef axils, o&4 or mature 
fruits dark wine red, Shining, vith a eonsoievous apex, 1/5 
inch seress, flattened on both sides, subtended by the 5 
rather small brownish calyx segments; "“@endifigan™ in Manobe. 
Cabadbaran, October, 1912. 
44170, Fieus urdanetensis Bim. n. Sp. Suberect 
tree«like shrnb in wet alluvial soil of jingled woods berder- 
ing the lagoon at 6000 fect; stem several ineh® thick, terete, 
erooked, 15 to 26 feet high, branched from the gee wood 
white, foft and pulpy, odorless and without taste, pith 
large; berk smooth, brown, es8ily Strinping on tho branches; 
branchlets numerous, lex, horisentally spreading, numerous; 
corieeeous leaves Similarly disposed, flat, tips aburptly 
reeurved, lighter green beneath, petiole brown pubescent; 
fige solitary or in axillery peire®, ascending, obovoidly 
globose, uvon short stelks, shining pale green and sprinkled 
. With brownish lentieels, 1/2 ineh long; young leaves red and 
suberect (giving the appesrance of flowers from a distance); 
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