11413, Vctarrhens ameiana Schltr. Small tufts upon 
moss covered Llimbe of large trees in woods at 6750 feet of 
mount Apo; stems ascending, Tlattened, usually curved; 
leaves succulent, also ascending; inflorescence ascendingly 
curved, the stalk and bracts yellowish green; the flowers 
pale yellow and odorless; "Gbla-aco." . Todays, June, 1909, 
11414, Elaeocarpus bagleyeanensis Zim. n. ep. A 75 
foot high tree with a 3 foot thick stem, in moist forests 
at 5500 feet of mount Apo; main branches arising from near 
the middle, ascending, crooked and widely spreading; wood 
white and with a dingy yellow color, soft and nice to work, 
odorless and tasteless; bark brown, cuite thick, yellowish 
beneath the epidermis; twice comparstively short, ascending; 
leaves thinly coriaceous, aseending, conduplieate on the 
upper darker green eurface, toward the tip recurved, the 
main nerves yellowish green: spikes a few inches long, or 
mush less greayieh green; the pedicel 1/2 inch long, green; 
fruit herd, wash-blue when mature and 3/4 inch in diameter 
or some less, glebose; “lingeangad;" Todays, August, 1909. 
11415, Kedinills ramiflora Uerr, Spiphytic shrub 
upon moes covered tree trunks six feet from the moist 
humus covered ground at 5756 feet of mount Apo; steme terete, 
1/2 inch thick; lexly branched; wood sappy white, quite 
rigid, covered with browWn thinly checked burk; leaves coria- 
_@eous, sublucid on both sides, descending, shallowly concave 
on the lighter green lower surface, tips recurved; flowers 
eluetered along thw the stems and branches, the calyx and 
pedicels red, the corolla pinkigh white; stamens also 
purplish; "Cayaupong;" Todays, August, 1909, 
11416, Ophiogioseum pendulum Linn. lusters upon 
dense moses covered tree trunks (usually from the sides or 
sheltered plecee 10 feet km from the ground); roots fleshy, 
terete, smooth, yellowish; stem whitish toward the base, 
and subterete, gradually becoming flattened into the blade; 
frends entire, widest toward the apex and usually forked, 
similarly dark green on both sides, coriaceous, the morgins 
coarsely wavy and more or less curved upon the lower side; 
peduncles usually in pairs, arising from the upper surface 
of the blade at about the middle, 3 te 5 inehes long, dark 
green, half flattened; spikes 3 to 7 inches long or longer, 
fiattened snd grooved along the creen receptsle, the spore 
cages yellowish; “Able-ag-ta-cayo;" ‘Todaya, Aucust, 1909. 
11417. Piper pseudochavies (C) ¢. DO. n. form, 
Climbing upon a tree fern in moist woods at 8780 feet of 
mo Apo; stem 3/4 inch thick, round, crooked and nodulose; 
bark yellowish and covered with coarse Lenticells; branches 
mogtly at the top and forming a dense bush, slender, emnooth, 
green, much thickened at the %k joints, the ultimate ones 
half drooping; leaves horizontally descending, thinly coria- 
ceous, flat, much lighter green beneath; peduncle green, 
spike ¢ylindrie, reddish brown when young; the young fruite 
yellowish green, 2 inches long; “Manicatapoi;" Todaya, 
August, 1909. 
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