11757.  #$Daemonorops oligolepis Beee. n. sp. Seandent 
and looping in dense jungles and upon trees on 2 ridge near 
the junctionof the Colon creek with the Baruring river at 
3750 feet; o1d stem 1/2 inch thick sc orbe green, soon however 
covered with the thick dry rather brittle persistent sheathe; 
leaves scattered every & inches toward the top, alternate; 
leaves horizontally reeurved, 6 feet long, or shorter, termi- 
nated inte 2 3 feet long hooked rachis: petiole proper 1 
foot long, usually ascending, flattish, 1 inch wide at the 
‘pase, densely spinescent slong the upper side, less so 
toward the (apex) distal ende; leaflets papyraceous, descend- 
ing, rather strict, similarly dull green on both sides, 
the sides folded or deecending on the lower surface; sheaths 
densely covered with 11/4 inch long needle-like brown spines, 
dull green otherwise, infrutescence opvosite the leaves and 
a trifle below them (or a trifle above them and in their 
axils), recurved or subpendulous, 3 feet long: the rachis 
sheath at .the base only spinescent, otherwise elabrous, the 
more or lea: angular ultimate etelke covered with » brown 
integument; fruits globose, with * prominent tip, at least 
1/2 inch in diameter, glosay pale green or turning to a 
deathly white when fully mature, the minute apical seales 
grayish, the others with brownish tips; the ripe fruits 
very ineipid., "Rogman;” Todays, “Way, 1909, 
11758. Pilea robineOnii Zim. Succulent herbs amongst 
bowlders below the Colan creek falle and at ite junction 
with the Baruring river at 3750 feet, encircling heavy warm 
epringe in dense woode; stem reclining, obeecurely ancular, 
gradually awollen between the joints, succulent, derk green, 
sparingly branched toward the base; branches erect or sub- 
erect, bearing leaves toward the top; leaves ascending, flat, 
coriaceous, olive green above, much lighter or yellowish eo 
beneath: inflorescence ascendingly spreading, greenish, the 
small flower clusters arranged upon the upper side of the 
adivarigate branches, turning reddish when old or exposed to 
the Sunelight; "Salimbengun." Todays, September, 1909. 
11761, Orophea eumingiana Vid. Small erect tree 
20 feet high with oa 7 inch thick stem, in humid fertile 
forested flat at 4u00 feet; branches from the middle, 
divaricate, freely rebranched, the ultimate ones lax; wood 
soft, maple white, without odor or taste; bark -brownigh 
,88ay, smooth or obscurely checked on the stem; leaves 
"slightly deseending, submembranous, flat with recurved 
tips, dull green above slightly paler beneath; inflorescence 
leaf opposed, 1 to Secluetered, the ereenish pedicels erect 
or ascending; flowers pvstianatche green; "Lobanti." Todaya, 
September, 1909. 
11762. Polypodium oodes Kze. Upon seepage moss and 
ee¢laginella covered ledges at the bottom of the Colon creek 
Rex falis at 3750 feet at the junction of the Baruring. 
river: stems or rootstock branched, ereeping, slender, 
green, covered with light yellowish seales; stipe filiform 
deseendingly curved, greenish, shining; blades descending, 
fiat, rather thick and rigid, paler erges baneath; 
Todays, & September, 1909. 

