11467, Rurya scuminata DC, Slender tree in dense 
humid forests of moist flats at 6000 feet of mount Apo; 
stem 35 feet high, 10 inches thick, finely branched toward 
the top; wood soft, sappy white, without odor or taste; 
bark brown, lenticelled; branches laxly rebranched; the 
twigs very elender, flexible and half drooping; leaves 
ehartaceous, mostly descending, fiat, shining derk green 
above, much paler green beneath; flowers drooping, odorless, 
green except the creamy white petals and brownish stigmas; 
fruits also descending, turning purplish when mature; 
Marintek;" Todayn, August, 1909, 
11467 a, iliyrmephytum becesrii Blm. n. sp, insecti« 
vorous epiphytes upon shrubs or small trees of thickets on 
the gamd gravelly hot and dry Panala rive flate at 750 
feet; bulb 1 foot thick, more or less aes dull eray, 
obscurely papillese and spinescent, the rind green beneath 
the epidermis, mest rather soft and turnip white, honey« 
sombed, the inner walle brown; stems few to several 6 inches 
to 16 inches long, usually aseending, unbranched, bendable, 
terete, 1/2 inch thiek, the younger onee spinescent eepecial~ 
ly along the lower side, otherwise smooth exeept for the 
scare, brown! lesves ascendingly spreading, with whitish 
petioles: blades folded upon the upper slightly darker 
green surface, ridgidly coriaceous, the tips abruptly recurved , 
the margine coarsely undulate; infloreseent bracts very 
thick and rigid, especially the outer smooth ones, the 
smaller inner ones densely covered with brown hairs: flowers 
1 ineh long (ineluding the 6 segments) the baral portion 
a8 well as the calyx white, otherwise pele wk wash-blue 
even in the bud state; fruit elongete ellipsoid, leas than 
1/2 inch long, white except the pinkish base, soft, Geseeded; 
filements slso wash Blue; anthers style and stigma whitish; 
Tedaya, Hay, 1909, 
11468, Deecsespermum blancoi Yid. Slender tree in 
very dense forests of moiat flats at 6000 feet of mount Apo; 
stem 35 feet high, 8 inches thiek; wood moderately hard, 
sappy white, without oder or taste; bark brown, rather thin, 
longitudinally shecked; branches above the middle, sascend- 
ing crookedly rebranched; the ultimate ones very slender, 
lax and half drooping; twige smooth and brown; leaves maa 
ascendingly recurved, thinly coriaceous, lucid dark green 
above, much lighter green below; inflorescence ascending 
® trifle, ereen except the white petals snd pinkish filaments: 
Slobose fruite dark eveen, turning dull purplish when mature; 
“Baringoros-talatong;” Todays, August, 1909, 
11469,  ikedinilla confluentinervie Yin. nh. 8D, 
Epiphg¢tic shrub upon the main branches of large trees in 
humid forests of flat half swampy soil of mod Apo at 6000 
feet; stem crookedly rebranched, ascending or horizontal, 
7 to 10 feet long: the stem and main branches terete; wood 
modéPately hard, whitish or reddish tinged in the center, 
without odor or taste; bark yellotieh brown, checked; twigs 
suberect, purplish, angular but not winged; coriaceous 
Leaves ascendingly recurved, dull deep green above, much 
lighter green or even yellowish so beneath; inflorescence 
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