11493, iteadaphne philippinense %1m. n. sp. Large 
forest tree on a ridge at 6000 feet of mount Apo; stem 60 
feet high, 3 1/2 feet thick, the main branches arising from 
* trifle above the middle; wood soft, yellowish, streaked 
with brown, odorless but with a slight bitter taste; bark 
brown on the stem, gray on the branches, thick, sealing in 
thin plates, reddish brown beneath the epidermis; branches 
orookedly rebranched; twigs numerous, bendable, erect, 
Comparatively short, roughened by the old leaf scars; Leaves 
ascending, vigidly coriaceous, pale green above, glaucous 
beneath, above the middle more or Lese twisted and with 
slightly recurved tips; inflorescence 1 to 3 inches lone, 
from the uppermost leaf axile, saseending; stalks reddish, 
@alyx greenish; the 3 petale more whitish on the inner side 
and yellowish on the outer; stamens 6, yellowish green; 
anthers introrsely dehiscing; ovary glands light yellow; 
fruit aseending, upon 1/2 inch long and 1/3 inch thick 
etslk, globose except for the tip which ie slightly pointed 
lucid purplish brown, 3/4 inch thiek; "Bogea;" Todaya, 
Auguet, 1909, 
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11494, Ceestichie Linesrifolia Anka n. ep. Dense 
Clusters upon the upper side of mOse covered limbe in dense 
forests along a ridge at 6000 feet of nous Apo; roots green, 
connected; peeudobulbs light green; stems secending or 
pendulous, sheathed, fisttieh; lesvee usually only one on 
a etem, gracefully recurved, similarly deep screen on both 
sides, smooth coriaceous; peduncle green, much flattened, 
ascendingly recurved; bracts of the buds greenish, closely 
imbricate, and much flattened; flowers divariesate, dull 
brown; "Palauway;"  Todaya, May, 1909, 
11495, Carex brunnes Thunb, Rather large dense 
tufts in moist stony soil on 4 steep wooded ravine along the 
Cati creek at 6000 feet of mount Apo; roots numerous, elender 
angular stems covered with brown sheaths at the base; foliage 
eresefully recurved on ali sides,dark green on both sides, 
the midvein deeply grooved on the upper side and keeled 
along the lower: inflorescent stalk aseendingly curved, 
angular and dark green: the subpendulous eft inflorescence 
strangly reaurved or subpendulous, Lighter evreen; "“Talayia;” 
Tedaya, August, 1909, 
12496, Medindlie umbrine fim, a, ep, Shrub 15 
feet high in very moist gravelly — of a densely wooded 
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Yavine along the Cati ereek of mo \¢ Apo at 6000 feet; stem 
& inches thick, crooked an4 branched from below the middle; 
wood soft, reddish white in the center, without odor or taste; 
branches widely spreading and laxly vebranched, the tips 
ascending; bark light yellowish gray, mote or lease rouchened 
with lenticells, on the terete branchlets minutely several 
winged or ridged; leaves horizontally epreading, slightly 
recurved, coriaceous, velvety dark ereen above, much paler 
beneath; infloresceme chiefly pendulous from the branches; 
stalks and calyx green, covered with fine ruety brown seurfy 
seales,petals 5, white, rotately twigted; filaments atyle 
and pistil whitish; basal portion of the anthere yellow, 
otherwise blue; "Calayan"; fruite hard green, globose, less 
than 1/2 inch in diameter; Todaya, August, 1909, 
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