ascending, shallowly folded on the upper very dark green 
surface, apex much recurved, corisceous; infrutescent etalke 
dark green, erect, rigid, flowere early falling, the tube 
reddish, the apex or segmented portion yellowish; Vagrellanes 
April, 191°. 
12379. Plosecopea seandens Lour. Subscuatic herbe 
inhabiting muddy earth alone streamlets at 750 feet; stems 
decumbent, branched toward the base, taking roote at the 
nodes, the ultimate ones suberect, terete, green, more or 
less nodulose; leaves divsricately spreading, membranous, 
nearly flat, paler green benesth, their sheathe very pale 
green; inflorescence erect, the branches fastigiate, the 
prle blue flowers odorless; forming dense masses; "Kumpsi;" 
Magalianee, April, 1910. 
12380, Mapania humilis Nav. et Vil. Perennial 
herbe in wet alluvial soil along streamlets at 750 feet, 
in light woods or amongst thickets; stew erect, few inches 
to 9 foot long, sheathed with the leaf bares, roots sub« 
aerial, terete, brown, 1/4 inch thick st most, wiry; leaves 
ample, ascending, the upper one half gracefully recurved, 
be-broadly sheathed toward the base, the lower 1/3 thied 
abruptly conetrieted and deeply greoved on the upper side, 
in 3 rows; blade chartaceous, nearly flat, paler green beneath, 
abruptly constricted and extended into = slender sesbrous 
point: infrutescence upon green, flexible more or less 
flattened, 3 to 7 inches lanc, nearly erect pedunelss which 
arise from the lowermost leaf axile; heade ovoid, 1/2 to an 
inch long, the bracts soon becoming marcese ent: *Lubigan, * 
Bagellanes, April, 1910, 
12381. Cleistanthus magacarps C, B. Rob, Small 
shrub like tree in wet alluvial soil slone etreemlets of 
light woode at 756 feet; stem terete, 15 feet hich, erect, 
4 inehes thick; branches copious, srisine from below the. 
middle, divericate, slenderly rebranched the ultimate ones 
lax, #11 more or lese horizontally epreading; bark smooth, 
gray and brown mottled; wood cuite heavy and hard, whitieh 
except the reddish centres] portion, odorless and tastelegs; 
leaves horizontal or descending, subwembranoue, flat with 
Teourved tips, lisht green sbove, whitish or elaucent beneath 
variable in size{ infruteseence suberect, Along the branche 
lets, mostly solitary, or occasionally 2 or S3«clustered, 
upon very short stalks; fruits subclabosely trilobed, hard, 
eveen, 1 inch across, 3-celled snd S«seeded; *Cacao;” 
Magallanes, April, 1919, 
12382. Chara gymnopitys Braun. MAdming dense masses 
in muddy earth along a slow flowing stream bordered with 
thiekets and light woods, stems numerously brenched, pele 
green, submerged but helf foating; branchletea and leaf 
Posetts darker green; the 4rehegonia Yellowish brown; #.— 
"Lomot"; altitude 7650 feet; egallanes, April, 1910, 

