
into a slender reeurved spiny tip; cluster strongly recurved, 
ite brenches green and smooth, 1 to 2 feet long, the branches 
i to 3 inehee long, ascendingly curved along the upper side; 
nuts 3/4 inch long, ellipsoid, the prominent apex bleck, as 
are also the tips of the greenish breets: involiral brects 
dark green; leaves 10 feet long, horizontally recurved; 
*Pabox;" Todays, May, 1909. 
11237. Parinerium mindansense Perk. Tree 20 feet 
high with an 6 inch thick stem, in fertile soil of light woods 
at £000 feet; branches arising from below the midé@le, divari- 
cate, rather long and freely rebranched; bark smooth, brown 
end white mottled; thin sapwood white, reddish brow toward 
the center, tasteless, with a faint sweet-milk odor, herd; 
twigs quite rigid; cherteccous leaves flat with only the tips 
reeurved, secending, horizontel or descending, similerly 
green on both sides; inflorescence erect, axillery, spicate, 
6 to 6 inchee long, yellowish green; corolla or petale ereemy 
white; purplish filaments; yellow anthers; young infrutes- 
gence erect, pendulous altimetely with the ellipsoid yellow- 
ish russet brown 3 inches long fruits: their exocarp thick, 
woody, quite brittle; the "nut-meg" like rather large seed 
is used by the Begobos as a black waxy paint to cover ower 
such erticles as sheaths of verions kinds. "“Tabumtenon"; 
It. protects the sheaths and their hendles from the rottening 
influence of raing, &e. Tedeya, July, 1909. 
11228.  <Aetinorhytie calleperia Yendl. A 40 foot 
high tree in fertile g011 of open lends at 1750 feet, in ecom- 
peny of "eocoa-nute"” and "beetle-nuts"; stem strict, 8 
inches thick, grayish white or whitish mottled, amoothish, 
more plainly ringed towerd the top; leaves forming a rather 
dense orown, 10 feet long or longer, horizontal, the distal 
helf etrongly recurved and drooping, leafy within a foot or 
two from the bese: petiole end rachie flattened, eovered 
with ea hoary white "bloom", the former much thickened and 
abruptly so at the base; sheaths 3 to 5 feet long, green, very 
lightly imbricate and almost stem-like in size; inflores- 
eonse ascending, 2 feet long, paniculately branching the . 
in a brenched stelk 
base, creamy white yellow 
flowers; perianth braets and stemens about 
inflorescence end above the branching er horizontal 
fruiting clusters; fruite hard, yellowigh and finally red, 
smooth hard, heangins inches long, ovoid or ellipsoidigh 
out; "Tengelo." Todeye, May, 1909. 
11239. Fieus candeatifolia Wert. <A straggling elimber 
along the lower portion of ea 5 feet thick tree trunk of fertile 
#0i1 in woods at S500 feet; stem 6 inches thiek, branched all 
slong; branches divericately spreading, reaching 25 feet in 
lengkh, freely branched and ultimately numerously branched; 
twige lax, half drooping; bark smooth, mottled; wood rather. 
tough, odorleas, whitish, with s faint sweet taste; leaves 
ehartaceous, descending, flat with on the tips slightly 
recurved, smooth end eublucid above, rough beneath; figs 
axillery, solitery or in pairs, pendulous from the whitish 
Slender peduncles, greenish white with numerous minute milk- 
white spots or lentiecels, fletly globose, 1/2 inch thick, 
occesionally beset with vestiges of bracts; the peduncles 
likewise beset; and at the base subtended by minute thin 
brown colored bracts; “Megamomoo.” Todaya, July, 1909. 
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