12399, Phyllanthue greenei Slim. nn, Sp. Very 
lax undershrub in stony soil of » eteep wooded slope 
at 1500 feet of mount } stem woody, single or 
few from the same root, 1 to 3 feet high, terete, brown, 
very flexible; the longer stems occasionally branch ed; 
Lesvee horizontally spreading, more or lees crowded 
toward the top, leafletea membranous, dull green above, 
glauceseent beneath, flat, horizontally spreading; 
flowers pendulous, yellowish green, from the leaf axils; 
“Ritis;* Wageailenes, Bay, 1910. 
12400, Adiantum cupreum Copel. n. *p, Small 
terrestriel tufte in fertile soil amongst rocke of 
deeply shaded declivity, at 1500 feet of mount 
rootstock suberect, very short, occasionally fer branched, 
giving rise to several stipes, densely clothed with 
maroon eolered haire; stipes nearly black, few to several. 
inches high, erect, ewooth except at the very bage; 
fronda atroarly reeurvei or nearly fist, pointing down 
hill; pinnee fiat, subcharteceous, dull and deep green 
above, 2 trifle paler benesth, the younr ones light green 
gori a rigid dull brown lid folded up; the lower side of 
the pinnules end hinged from the upper edge of it, closed 
before maturity, wide open when the Lighter brown spores 
ate te be shed; "“Maetum;" Magallanes, May, 1910. 
1244. "Ladium philipoinense werr. Denese tussocks 
in wet clayey #011 or in seepage places well shaded by 
woods and usually along embankments, cuts, slides ete., 
at 750 feet; reotstecks ahort, branching, with ample 
roots, giving rise to a profusion of stems; steme terete, 
very flexible and soft in temture, smooth, dull green, 
at the base provided with marcescent shenths, 3 to 7 
feet long, teclining and forming dense masses; inflores- 
eence few branched, the branches crookedly rebranched; 
branchiets green, triangular, sheathing bracts brown, 
fruite green, in emall cineenieian bal "“Kumpai;" Magallanes, 
May, 1919, 
12402, Melaetoma congestea Bim. n. 8p. Rrect 
ghrub in well drained compact soil of thickets mixed with 
erasses of hille at 750 feet; stem 2 inches thick, 10 
feet hich, branched from near the ground; wood odorless 
and tasteless, greenish white, with quite 2 large similar. 
ly colored pith, soft; bark emooth, brownish; main 
branches slender, sscending, few branched toward the end; _ 
Lesves descending, chartaceous, folded upon the upper 
deeper green surface, veins greenish white beneath; 
inflorescence terminal, erect, rather congested, several 
in 2 cluster; calyx covered with grayish green scales 
the segments pinkish; the 5 petale rose red, early falling 
thee Exexe 1 inch long, obovate, bearing a smell heard at ws 
the apex; filaments and lower anthers bright yellow, the 
upper ones purplim red: style red, besring 4 green 
stigma; “Sogas-de-Japon;* Magallanes, May, 1910. 
12403. Fieus heteropodsa wig. Rather short tree 
in dry grass bude of open more or lees thicked flats at 
600 feet: stem 6 inches thick, nesrly 15 feet high, widely 

