long; calyx or perisnth tube subterete, greenish, 5 inches 
long: segments 2 inches long, white; filsmernte snd style 
red; flowers slichtly but eweetly fragrant; “Bacong"; fruit 
flattish 11/2 inch across, smooth, dull brown; Todays, 
September, 1909. 
11788. Tropidia mindansensis Ames n. #p. in rich 
humus covered well drained scil of 2 wooded ridge at 2750 
feet, between the junction of the @x Parsk creek ond the 
Sibulen river; stems neually in paire from the fleshy roots, 
deeply seated, terete, dark green, leaves ascending, slightly 
recurved, similarly dull green on both sides, thinly charta.- 
eeous, much reduced toward the base; veduncles, bracts and 
pedicels green, the latter are recurved; flowers soft in 
texture, persistent, pale or yellowish green; “Owag," 
Todays, June, 1909, 
11786.  $Odontoesoria chinensis (L.) 7. Sm. "Lumigal"; 
tufts in damp earth or upon bowlder sider slong the Sibulen 
viver at 2600 feet; rootstock short, quite rigid, branched, 
covered with dense brown scales; stipes dull brown, terete, 
also rigid, ascending; frond ascending, recurved: pinnze 
flat, dork green, paler beneath, subcoriaceous; Todays, 
September, 1909, 
11787, Begonia longisesaps Varb. Creeping wpon 
damp ledges in the vicinity of the junction of the Parak 
ereek with the Sibulan river at 2500 feet; stems 1/2 inch 
thick, terete, succulent, reddish; petioles and peduncles 
terete, reddish brown, ascending; blades descending, limp, 
descending, velvety deep green above, much paler green or 
even red beneath; ealyx greenish, vetsls pink, stamens 
Light yellow; °“Tasiktapanc-pang," Todaya, september, 1909, 
11786, stenochlaena ‘eorbifolis {L.) 7. Sm." Climb. 
ing upon email trees in humid foreste at 4000 feet; stem 
tightly attached to ite support, irregularly flattened, hard, 
rigid, branched, covered with yellowish brown seales; stipes 
scattered, divericate, subterete, green sbove, brown beneath, 
quite rigid; pinnae descending, dull green above, paler 
beneath, coriaceous; the fertile fronds ascending, chiefly 
at the top, ites pinnae linear; and fragile; “Libagod”; 
quite rare! Todays, September, 1909. 
11789. Quercus cyrtorhyncha Mid. luomensely Large 
tree in humid forested flate at 4000 feet, south of the 
Baruring river; stem buttressed at the bose, 5 feet thick 
above the buttresses, terete, straight, 76 feet high or 
higher; branches mainly toward the top, widely spreading; 
grayish brown, covered with minute yellowish brown lenticelis; 
twige smooth, yellowish green; leaves submembreanous, horizone 
tal or aseendinely reeurved, deep green on the upper condu- 
plicate surface, grayish green bénesath; infrutescence ascend- 
ing, terminal, the stalke grayish green, and only sparingly 
branched, 5 to 6 inches long; scorns more or less clustered, 
ovoid, 3/4 inch long, nearly mature, hard, emooth, green or a 
trifle slightly glaucescent; cup ashy grey, shallow, quite 
smooth; “Ulayan. Todays, September, 1909, 
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