12342, Timoniue veletonii film. n. ap. 2 Small 
tree or shrub-like in moist reddish soil witha gravelly 
subsoil of the wooded banks along the Pauala river at 
750 feet; etem 6 inches thick, 15 feet high, branched 
from the middle; wood moderately soft, yellowish white, 
odorless, 2 trifle bitter; bark smoothish, gray and brown 
mottled, green beneath the epidermis; branches numeroutly 
rebranched, the twige quite rigid and subereat; leaves 
several at the ends of the twigs, weending, coriaceous, 
light green but somewhat psler beneath, flat or nearly 
$0, Spex recurved; green fruits ovoidly globose, 1/2 to 
3/4 inch long, about 40=seeded, arranged in 6 groups; 
Hagelbanes, April, 1910, if 
12344, Hydnophytum ancuetifolium Herr. Spiphytic 
symbiotic shrub, upon amall stems and branches of trees 
along the wooded banks of the Pauala river at 1000 feet; 
the honey-combed tuber 1 1/2 foot through, gray, smooth, 
more or less lumpy; steme eeverel, 1 to 3 feet lenge, 
branched from near the base, terete, flexible; lesves 
ascending or horigontal, flat, slightly recurved, paler green 
beneath, quite brittle; flowers in sessile axillary clusters, 
calyx pale green, the other partes white, deciduous: fruits 
1/3 ineh long, ellipsoid, bright orange red, sweet, juicy, 
with & flattened straw-colored seede; Magallanes, April, 
1910, 
122346. Vendlendia glabrate DO, Tree-lLike shrub 
on moist gravelly so0i1 of wooded banks slong the Pauala 
river at 1000 feet; stem 5 inches thick, 15 feet high, 
branched from the middle; wood bitter, hard, heavy, odorless, 
reddish brown except the thin white sapwood; bark brown, 
more or less checked; branched spreading, repeatedly branched, 
the twige suberect; leavee horizontal mostly, nearly flat, 
recurved toward the apex, % trifle paler green beneath, 
subcorisaceoue; inflorescence erect; slightly fragrant, 
all the stolke calyx and stigmas pale @reen, the other 
partes of the flowers white; Magallanes, April, 1910. 
12346.  Odontosoria retuss (Cav.}) J. Sm. Tufte 
in moist esrth upen gravelly subsoil slong the bakks of: 
the Pauala river at 1000 feet: rootstock short, horizonts1, 
few branched, rigid, 3/4 inch thick, sovered with dark 
brown hairs or seales; stipes several, 2% feet lone or 
longer, erect, mubwewx subterete, 1/2 inch thick #t the 
bage, glaucous brown especially on the lower half toward - 
the base; frond as long ae the etipe or longer, gracefully 
recurved; pinnae flat, pleasing green above, subglauces~ 
sent so beneath; sori dark brown; "Loedo." Magallanes, © 
April, 1910. 
12547, Taenitis blechnoides (7illd.) wtz. Running 
tufts in fertile well drained humus covered soil of forested 
Yidges at 1000 feet or higher, rhizome ereeping, few branched 
quite rigid,1/3 to 1/4 inch thick, covered with short 
hearly black seales or hairs; roots ample, covered with fine 
Srownieh hairs; stipes subterete, 1/4 inch thick, erect, 6 
to 16 inches high, shining dark brown or nearly black; 
fronds ascending, usually shorter, its Vv guk pinnae 
baler and duller beneath, margins more er lease wavy, sori 
brown, “Lecdo." Magallanes, April, 1910. 
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