22034. Eugenia saligna (Miq.). Small trees in a wooded flat at the 
outlet of a deep cut; wood white or nearly so, soft in the branches which 
are numerously rebranched; leaves lighter green beneath, shallowly folded 
upon the upper sublucid side; twigs green, the infrutescence erect, the 
fruits nearly coal black, up to 3/4 inch across, deep purple and juicy 
under the soft skin. Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927, . Myrt. 
22035. Asplenium nidus Linn. "Bird's nest" fern upon cratalus[?] of 
small trees in a wooded flat of a stream bed; fronds ascending, sublucid, 
the old ones recurved and persistent in the dead state, the edges irregu- 
larly wavy, narrowed and inwardly curved toward the base, with a matrix of 
spongy rootlets in its axils; the rigid midrib nearly black and shining 
beneath. Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Polypod. : 
„Note: This species or a form of it is brought constantly in from the 
provinces to the city of Manila and in valley towns. It is quite a hardy 
ornamental blade-like fern. In British North Borneo I collected a similar 
species whose blades measured between 10 and 15 inches wide and 5 to 7 feet 
long. 
22036. Nephrolepis biserrata (Sw.) Schott. Hanging from around the 
basal portion of a "Bird's nest” fern of wooded ravines; rhizome rigid, 
crooked, blackish brown, branched; the rigid stipe greenish; fronds from a 
few feet to 15 feet in length; pinnae equally green, shining on both sides. 
Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Fern. 
22037. Polypodium subauriculatum Blm. Forming hanging clumps about 
other epiphytes in humid wooded flats; fronds hanging, from 2 to 10 feet 
long, the segments a trifle paler on their inner faces; sori sunken beneath, 
papillate above; the stipe dark brown; rhizome rigid, glaucous, crooked, 
branched. Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. Polypod. 
- 22038. Antrophyum. Hanging clumps from tree trunks in very wet flats 
r stream b 
of woods nea eds; fronds much lighter beneath, above often with a 
metallic hue; the short rhizome not rigid, yellow inside, forming a mass of R 
Spongy roots; stipes short but often twisted. Mt. Pinatubo, April to June, 1927. 
Polypod. 
22039. Ficus stipulosa Miq. A strangling fig tree in woods along a 
creek bed; main branches widely spreading; leaves conduplicate, lighter 
green beneath, the stipules dry and brown; figs ascending, nearly 1 inch 
thick, green, hard, in divaricate axillary pairs. Mt. Pinatubo, April- to 
June, 1927. Morac. 
22040. [No name.] On host number 22039: Ficus stipulosa. Mt. Pinatubo 
April to June, 1927. Crypt. Sa ene A 

