14163, Begonie pelteta Blm, ns ps Upon the nether 
Side of cliffs slong the deoply wooded Catangan creck at 
S500 fect sltitude; stem 1/2 ineh thick curved, short, very 
Seldom branched; herbaceous, deep. red; petiole aseending, 
deep red, Soft, terete, sour; bledes descending, leathery, 
much paler green beneeth, diverse in size; pedunele esgending, 
Smoother than the petioles; flewers with subtending bracts 
Light pink, the anthers light yellow; capsule 1/2 to 3/4 ineh 
oore'rt pale green; “Sappot" in Manobe; Ceabadbaran, October, 
191 he ; 
14164,  Witrephora viridifolia Fla, ns. ap. Smal 
Sized tree at the base of high e1iffs alone the weeded Ca~ 
tangen areck nt 3500 fect altitude; stem 1 foot thick, 
etraight, terete, 25 feet high, branched from the middle; 
wood nearly odorless, testelesa, yellowish or yellowish 
brown, moderstely herd; bark relatively thick, @mooth and 
éull brown with ooessional era yleh bletehes, issbellinus 
otherwise; branehss divaricate, @lender, freely rabranched; 
the lax twige alee horizontally branched, the leaf bearing 
portion fulvee brown; leaves think: coriaceous, flat and 
only apex reeurved, dull green but peler somewhat beneath, 
the veing beneath yellowish; flovers in small groups along 
the bren¢hlets and ocertionmliy in the lief axils, the 
Stalks a8 the petioles felvus, the 6 segments very thick, 
easily Separsting, deflexed, mclleus, stamens and pistils 
brighter yellow, calyx yellowish green, "Pamohagan" in 
“anobes  Cnahadberan, Oetober, 1912, 
14165, Sehefflera simplisifolia Merr, Epiphytie and 
suffrutescent upon limbe of trees in forested ridges at S500 
feet altitude; steme several from the same denee root eluster, 
i to 3 yards long, terete, 1/2 inch thick, very sparingly 
rebrenched, Pioniggee ustally descending but aseending toward 
ig. 
di@tal end; the thiek leathery leaves descending, al ternatingly 
Beattered, more toward end, recurved and foldeti, paler or 
yellowish areen beneath; infrutesecence asbeending, green, 
the few Stalks aivergentiy Spreading; “Tumecos” in Menobo, 
Cabadbaran, Cotober, 1912, 
14167, Ites mecrophylla Yell. A rather omalil tree along 
the wooded ridge between Dures and Cewilanan peaks at 3500 
feet, in hums covered reddish soil; atem 1 foot thick, sub« 
terete and subereot, brenehed from below the middle, at least 
£5 feet high: wood moderately seft but tough, white exsept 
the reddish tinged central helf, without odor er teste: berk 
Sneoth, grayish white and rether finely mottled; isahellinus 
on the inner side; main branches ascending, not numerously 
rebranched towaré the top; Leaves descending, corlaesous or 
Subchartaseous, shallowly folded on the upper Surfece,e shade 
lighter green beneath, spikes eteending, pele green except 
the nearly odorless light creamy white flower8; Cabadbaran, 
Octeber, 1912, - 






