22058. Lan Pinatubensis Elm. n. sp. Spreading clumps with few 
stems in damp ground of jungles along creek beds; stems ascending 2 to 3 
yards long, 1/2 inch thick, green, the lower one thiru leafless, swollen at 
the base; rhizome short, yellowish white; leaflets paler beneath, tips ~ 
twistingly recurved, descending, the lower ones widely scattering and much 
reduced; infrutescence few branched, 10 inches long, the suberect stalks 
green, the hard subglobose fruits 1/3 inch across and luteus and ruber red, 
the few fruit bearing branches ascendingly curved. Mt. Pinatubo, April to 
June, 1927. Zingib. : 
22059. Pithecolobium prainianum Merr. Sprawling shrubs in dense 
jungles of limestones; wood soft white, the brown bark covered with len- 
ticels and excrescences; leaf segments descending, glaucous beneath, the 
midrib and rachis yellowish on the under sides; pod hanging, curved, yellowish 
to red. Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Legun. : 
22061. Vittaria elongata Sw. Masses hanging from moss and vine covered 
inclining tree trunks extending over stream beds along densely wooded moun- 
tain slopes; rhizomes flexible, crooked, branched; the stipe portion quite - 
rigid; the blades lighter beneath, pendent from the recurved stipes, the 
longer and broader forms ribbon-like and somewhat twisted, those of the short 
and narrow forms flat and recurved. Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Polypod. 
20062. [No name.] Upon dry twigs of a Vaccinium species along jungled 
fringes of grass patches; the loose bunches dry, gray and soft in texture. 
Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Crypt. 
22063. [No name.] A black fungus upon the upper side of a Weinmania? 
species along grassland bordering dense woods (the foliage of a second growth 
from an old stump). Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Crypt. 
22064. [No name.] Upon the younger blades of a grass species (originally 
burned) of a dry flat; spores mainly upon the under side, grayish black, and 
in small patches. Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Crypt. 
22065. Astronia zambalensis Elm. n. sp. Small tree on a steep wooded. 
Slope; wood soft, whitish, the bark gray to brown; twigs angled and brown, 
flexible; leaves ascending sublucid above, nearly flat; inflorescence short 
paniculate, erect, deep scurfy brown except the caducous dull yellow petals. 
Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Melast. . 

