14309. Rourea imbricata Blm n, Spe <A tough 
Scandent and Sprawling shrub in a moist wooded depression 
at 3750 feet or near the summit of Duros peak; Stem crooked 
or curved, 3/4 inch thiek, rigid, branched 15 feet above 
the moist humus eovered Soil; the thin sapwood white, 
otherwise reddish tinged, quite odorless and tasteless; 
bark relatively thick, smooth and brown and gray mixed, 
green hypodermis, otherwise teStaceous; branchlets short 
upon the longer and subdrooping main ones, more or less 
clustered; leaves descending, chartaceous, with recurved 
apex, Slightly paler beneath; inflorescence Suberect, 
Stalks green, pedicels and perianth Segments brick red; 
young fruit ovoidly ellipsoid, dark green, a® i68 also the 
Galyx; "Dakolay"” in Manobo. Cabadbaran, September, 1912, 
i411.  Galophyllum flavo-cortica Bim ns BDe 
Middle Sized tree in dense woods of a Steep depression of 
more OF 1e8S Stony humus covered soil at 6500 feet, between 
Duros and Cewilanan; stem 2 feet thick, erocked, Subterete, 
o5 feet high, chiefly branched toward the top; main branches 
Widely Spreading and crookedly rebranched; the twigs 
descending and with subereet. tips, nearly 1/2 inch thick, 
yellow, leaves horizontal or deseending, coriaceous, 
Gonduplicate, much paler or yellowish green beneath, 
tips Strongly recurved, the very Stout midvein beneath, 
yellow; wood moderately soft, white on the outside, reddish 
tinged or nearly roseus toward the center; odorless and 
quite tasteless; bark 3/4 inch thick, Scaling in thin 
yellowish plate, otherwise teStaceous, with a yellowish 
green juice, Spikes ascending, tertiinel, 1 to 6 inchea 
long, yellowish; fruits globose, 3/4 inch in diameter, 
herd and glaucous green; "Bileog" in Menobo. Gabadbaran, 
September, 1912, . . 
- 44612.  Selaginella usteri Hieron, Dense masses 
in rich moist humus covered soil of deep woods in flats 
-8t 500 feet; Stems rigid, at the base curved and rooted, 
nearly avellaneous or reddish on the exposed Side, otherwise 
greenish, branched toward the somewhat recurved top only, 
the branches below the middle meh reduced; branchlets 
sscending, leaflets membranows, flat, greener above, the 
young ones much paler green, fruiting tips light or yellowish 
green; Stems and branches provided with distichous leaf- 
like bracts; “Degnay" in Menobo. Cabadbaran, July, 1912. 
- 146184 Dryopteris adenophora G. Chr. Erect or 
downwardly curved Short tree-ferns (7?) in wet humus covered 
Soil along the upper end of a densely forested guich at 
S000 feet of Viwantanan ridge; stem 2 to 2 inches thiek, 
®& feet long or high, bearing merous fronds, Stipe a yard 
ant erect or ascending, greenish except the brown base, 
flattened on the upper Side, always less than 1/2 ineh 
across, herbaceous; fronds proper longer that the stipes, 
Strongly recurved; the segments flat and horizontally | 
Spreading, a trifle paler beneath, easily breaking, thinly 
¢hartaceous; the central or more erect ones fartile and 
Somewhat narrower; the ka black appressed roots numerously 
Covering the outside of the stem as in or on regular tree- 
fern trunks; "Paco" in Manobo; Gabadbaran, october, 1912, 
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