11408. llex apoensis Zim. n. sp. Crooked tree £5 
feet high with a1 foot thick stem, in moist wooded ravines 
along the Cerilan creek at 6750 feet of mount Apo; bark smooth- 
ish, dull brown, reddish beneath the epidermis except the 
yellowish inner portion; wood rather soft, some ye llowioh 
white, odorless, bitterish; branches mainly ot the top, 
ultimately numerously rebranched; twice ascending; Leaves 
coriaceous, gradually ascendingly recurved, shining and 
deeper green on the upper eide; infrutescence ascending, 
the stalks yellowish green; @lobose berries dark purplish 
red when mature, juicy and bitter; "Marintok;" Todaya, 
August, 1909, 
11409. Hypopterygium jovense Hpe. Forming dense 
mosses about emall eteme of shrubs near the damp soil of 
dense woods at 6750 feet of mount Apo; steme overlapping 
and descending; only the tips outwardly epreading; foliage 
soft, pale green; “Lomot.” Todays, Auguet, 1909, 
11419, Drimys piperita ook. Tree-like shrub in 
damp humus covered fertile soil of woods at 6750 feet of 
mount Apo; stem 3 to 5 inehes thick, erooked and usually 
vranched from below the middle; wood white, quite hard, 
odorleas, acrid to taste, heavy; bark dull brown, covered 
with wart«like excrescences; branches lax and droopingly 
curved, smooth, green but soon becoming brown; twige ascend 
ing; leaves coriaceous, horizontal, flat, tips recurved, 
a trifle paler beneath; pedicels green; sepals brown; petals 
white oblong, 3/8 inch long; pistil green; berries coal 
black, but with a deep purple bitter, juice, obovoidly 
ellipsoid, lese than-1/2 inch long, creased along the upper 
side (like coffee-beans); “Malague;" Todays, August, 1909, 
11411, Celastrus sapoengis Sim. n. sp. A lofty 
tree climber in dense woods st 6500 feet of mount Apo; stem 
1 to 3 inches thick, freely branched toward the top; 
branches looping and far reaching; wood soft and flexible, 
whitish toward the center, no odor or taste: old bark 
rugose and grayish brown, smooth and reddish brown on the 
branches; coriaceous lesvee smooth and lucid on both sides 
shallow ly conduplicste and with recurved tips, yellowieh 
green beneath; inflorescence greenish, odoriess, the vetala 
ereamy white, the style and calyx greenish, the ovary rim 
yellow; anthers also creamy white; capsule yellow, obovoid, 
the & persistent carpels strongly reflexed after dehiscence; 
the seede surrounded by on orenge =x red mealy coat; 
“Mangauwat;" Todaya, August, 1909. 
11412. Plates apoense Slim. n. 3p. Large tree 50 
feet high with a 3 foot ick stem; in woode of a steep 
slope at 6660 feet of mous Apo: branches widely spreading; 
Leaves chartaceous, dark olive green on the upper side, 
dull ashy gray beneath, the margins curved upon the under 
side (or the entire sides of the blade reeurved); fruit 
1 inch long, ovoidly ellipsoid, reddish, upon 1 inch long 
grayish brown pedicels arising from the leaf axils; bark 
smooth, mottled; wood soft, slightly fToetid, tasteless, 
white; "Calieau;" Todays, September, 1909. 
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