12064. Gtenomeris cumingiana Beee.  Seandent upon 
Sasll trees ox shrubs in damp woods on the banks of the Potos 
river at 600 feet in moist fertile soil with Some Stones; 
etens twining, 1/3 inch thick, terete, green, tough, branched 
toward the top where it forms a tangled mass; leaves Scattering, 
dessending, from the suberect pale green petiole, whieh is 
usualiy foward the base and eanieulate Slong the 
upper side towards the epex, Slightly folded upon the upper 
deed and shining green surface, somewhat poler beneath but 
equally Shining; inflorescence exillery, pendvlows, sveraging 
1 foot long, green except the yellowish corelia tentecles; 
young fruit 6 inches leng, soft, triangular.  egellanes, 
Mareh, 19106 
12065.  Polypéa@ium sinvosum Yell, Climbing along 
amell shrub or tree steas in wooded banks of the fotos river 
at 500 feet, in wet graveliy S011; rootstock loosely attached, 
usually & or S running parallel ané interlaced at the top, 
soft, bollew, the inner surface brown, the outer shining green 
and flaked with brownish scales, 3/4 inch ecross, more or 
less flattoned, sparingly branched; stipes rigid, erect or 
ascending, terete, green, arising from e vonical portion of 
the rootstock uaually in two alternating rows; fronds numerous, 
only a trifle paler beneath; the first ones longer and more 
Goaxrsely wavy; Sori clreular well imbedded; sporangia 
eiunamon-brown when mature; the rootetoek serve neats for « 
viaeious email bleck and spices, which when more than one 
rectstoek lives together, plaster thea tegether and thereby 
jnoreepe their abode and double thelr gang,-waeys. Magallanes, 
Mareh, 1910. 
12066. Ovrenie philippinensis sibuyanensis BecG. ny Vare 
Erect tree, 16 feet high, with e 4 inch thiek stem, in moist 
alluvial soil of humid forests at 760 feat along the Potos 
river; outer wood hard, yellowish, the greater inner portion 
soft and gukg pulpy, of the same yellowish white eoler; 
park brown, Smooth, the vinge 1/2 inch apart toward the 
top; sheath none; leaves hevisentelly spreading, and only 
Hliaghtliy curved; terainal one helt leaf bearing; leaflets 
@lightly seattering, coriaceous, dark green above, slightly 
eurved, gxayish white beneath, neovly fiat; petiole about 
6 or 6 feet along the lower one half deeply grooved, the 
basal portion 5 inches wide, that portion beneath the 
leaves subterete an@ 1 inueh thick, bendable; the inner Tibere 
soft end pulpy; the convex lower rachis surface ferruginous 
brown, the @ angular upper sides 1ese Bo; infloreseence creamy 
white, arising from the lower lest axils, et least 4 feet 
long, ite 11/2 foot long peduncle terete and 1/2 inch thiek, 
the panicles somewhat drooping: fpange™; its sheath etild 
persisting as a & feet long inches wide hanging 
thiekly coriaceous — nigh; flowers odorless; fruit 
nearly 2 inches long, lemon yellow. Magallanes, March, 1910+ 
12067.  Hovefieldia ardisisefolia {pO.) Wards Medium 
gised trees, 30 feet high, with a foot thick atem, ia moist 
fertile soil of the densely forested Potos river bottom at 
7650 feet; wood moderately hard and brittle, odorless and 
tasteless, dull reddish brown throughout; bark smoothieh, dull 
veadish brown beneath the epidermie, with a simileriy colored 
sap; branches toward the top divericately spreading, slender, 
sparingly branched; the green twigs as well as the branchlets 
leaves ascending, corlaseous, shallowly folded upon 
the deep green and Shining upper side, much lighter green 
beneath; infrutescence alongs the branches benesth the foliage, 
upon 1 to S inches long Stalks; fruits orange red, 1 1/4 
inch long, 3/4 inch across « trifle below the middie; creased; 
Megellames, March, 1910+ 

