11896, Paemonorops pedicellatia beee, n. sp. A 
medium sized climber in dense juncles of woods on a ridge 
at 36500 feet, on the Talon side of the mountsin range; 
old stem less than 1/2 ineh thick, green but usually covered 
with the old dry sheaths, the leafy portion 1 1/2 inches 
thick; leaves ascendingly recurved, slternating every & 
inches or so, 4 to 5 feet lone, exterided into half as long 
recurved hooked rachis; petiole 8 inches lone, Slattened, 
spiny, 1/2 ineh wide ot the base; leaflets gradually reduced 
toward the apex, norizontsally epreading, or only 
slightly recurved subpapyraceours, deep green and sublucid 
on both eides; rachis spinulese on the upper surface, 
hooked beneath; stem terminslLing abruptly: sheaths dull 
green, densely covered with flattened yellowish brown 
spines, the Longer ones 1 inch in length; infruteescence 
subpendulous, rising = few inches sbove the leaf sxile, 
emooth except the flattened very dark green spiny peduncle, 
2 to 3 feet leng; the branches 3 to 5 inches apart, 6 
inches lenge at the base, freely md divoricately rebranched, 
fruite yellowish, subglobose or » trifle longer, the brown 
apex quite prominent, lees than 1/2 inch long; Rogman. 
Todaya, vay, 1909. 
11897. Lysimechia capillipes iemel. Yorming dense 
Loose patches amongst moss covered rocke along etreams 
of woods at S000 feet on the Talon side of the mountain 
range; eteme pele green, terete, succulent, numerously 
branched; branches ascending; Leaves alternate, upon ascend- 
ing pale green petioles, flat, submembrenous, paler green 
benesth; flowers axillary, bluish white, seeending; young 
fruits green, 9180 ascendint; “Tasig-te-wiig;" Todays, 
September, 1999. 
11898. Areca caliso Beee. n. ap. Tree 18 feet 
high or less; stem 4 inches thick; sheath 4 (inches) feet 
long, 6 inches thick, yeliowish, smooth; in very moist 
soil on densely wooded slopes near «4 stream at 3000 feet, 
on the Talon side of the mountain range; leaves horizone 
tally spresding, several, slightly curved, bout 10 feet 
long; leaflets descendingly curved, sublucid on both sides, 
paler green beneath, the 2 prominent nerves strongly 
keeled on the upper very deep gteen surface, extending 
nearly to the base; infruteseence hanging from below the 
ehesths, 10 inchee long, somewhat curved upon the under 
side, the entire cluster ovoid in shape; #x rachis green, 
rigid, 11/2 inches at the base, numerously rebranched 
from the base; branches 1 to 3 inches long, descending, 
flattened as is aleo the rachis, rigid; fruits elongated 
ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth and shinine ereen, 1 inch long, 
fully 1/2 inch acrose the middle or just below this, spex 
blunt, numerous and forming dense clusters; the young inflo- 
rescence at lesst 1 foot long, the terminal 3/4 @taminate, 
the basal 1/4 pistillate, cetany yellow or axam creamy white; 
"Calieo.”  Todaya, May, 1904. 
11899, Gyrtandra talonensis “1m, n, ap, Lax shrub 
7 feet high, in very mist fertile humus covered soil of a 
densely wooded steep glope at 2000 feet, on the Talon side 
of the mountain range; stems and branches covered with 
emooth or thinly ehredded bark yellowish in color; inflo- 
rescence terminal, axillary or latersl, pendulous; flowers 
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