11715. Sria lamellata Ames Ny BPs Several stemmed 
clumps, descending from moss covered lerge trees in a very 
humid forested flat along the Mainit creek at 4000 feet, 
stem flattened somewhat, inbricately covered by the leaf 
bases: leaves horizontal or descending, twisted, folded 
toward the base, a trifle paler green beneath, Sublucid on 
the upper side; the unbranched 3 feet long stem terminated 
by a Several spiked inflorescence; spikes terete, 1 foot 
‘long at least, ascending toward the tips, otherwise descending 
as the stem, yellowish, provided with persistent light yellow 
reflexed bracts; flowers odorless, soft in texture, dirty 
yellowish on the outeide, yellow on the inner with purple 
@pote and streake; "“Dalumampe;" “odaya, July, L909. 
11716. Gleisostoma expansum Reichb., Epiphytes upon 
lavge mess covered trees in very humid forests along the 
Weinit eres: at 4000 feet; stem hanging and gradually ascend- 
ingly curved, rigidy 5 feet long flattened, unbranched, the 
basal 1/3 leafless and covered with marcescent bracts; 
leaflets. alternete, twistingly reeurved, thick and rigid, 
aark @ull green above, paler beneath; peduncle axiliary, 
5 to 7 inches long, subterete, purplish green and covered 
with light green bracts; inflorescence cone-shaped, 5 
inches long, flowering from base to apex; oderlesa flowers 
numerous and dente, subtended by greenish bracts, ascending, 
light purple red exeept the very tips of the segments; 
wrunigel ;* Yodaya, June, 1909s 
1L717. Saecoloma moluceanum (Bis) Mott.  Perrestrial 
glumps in moist fertile huaus covered. soil of deep forests 
of flate along the Mainit creek at 4000 feet; roctatock 
suberect, an inch thick, several inches long, bearing slender 
nearly black numerously branched roots; stipes several, 
strictly escending, averaging 3 feet long; shallowly grooved 
upon the upper green flettish side, brown along the lower side 
and towards the base; frond as long as the stipe, ascendingly 
recurved; pinnae alse recurved, the apical portion drooping; 
 pinules flat, descending, sublucia@ above, lighter green 
and dullexy beneath; "Somangal;" Todaya, September, 1909. 
11716. Yadeure apoensic Blm, Ns SPs. Glimbing about 
a lerge tree trunk and reaching the main limbs, in humid 
forested flats along the Mainit creek at 4000 feet; stem 
11/2 ineh thick, terete, divericately branched toward the 
top; wood porous, flexible, reddish, odorless and tasteless; 
bark comparatively thick, coarsely checked longitudinally, 
reddish beneath the epidermis; branchlets smooth, half 
drooping and reourved, forming tangled masses, yellowish 
brown of on the twigs greenish; leaves descending thickly 
ecoriaceow, dull re green above, much lighter green beneath 
shallowly conduplicate on the upper side, slightly reourved, 
tips more strongly so; flowers odorless, 1 to S-clustered 
from the leef axils or from the axils of fallen leaves, 
upon terete 3/4 inch long green bracteate pedicels; perianth 
segments greenish on the outer exposed sides, otherwise 
bright apple-red@, all ascending and imbricate, their tips 
bluntly recurved; the pistillate cone soon turning reddish; 
apparently young fruits evoidly globose, & inches across; 
hard, green except the inner sides of the carpels which is 
deep red; “lomabag."  Vodayn, September, 1909. 
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