12447, wLygodium japonicum (Thunb,) Swtz. Climbing upon 
gmall stems in shruberries bordering meadows at sea level ; 
stem emooth, straw brown, twining, numerously branched and 
forming tangled masses the whole length; leaves chartaceous, 
similarly licht green on both sides, the segments more or 
lese curved and twisted; fertile fronds always at the top; 
"“nito"; Magallanes, May, 1910. 
12448,  Lygodium cirecinnatwa (Burm) Swtz, Seanitent 
upon small trees and emongst shruberries, extending from the 
eoast to about 2000 feet altitude: stem numerous from the 
game root cluster, bendable, very tough and stout, the baeal 
several feet atraicht, the internodal portion usually inclined 
to twine and twisted, terete, hard, smooth, pale yellowi nh 
green or when exposed turning shining beown and ultimately 
nearly black, 1/4 ineh thick, at the base covered with dense 
short bleck haire or sesles; fronds horizontally spresding, 
2 to 3 dichetemously branched, usually in pairs from the stem 
with the middle one represented by 2 mere vestiae of a acale, 
alternating, the lower ones 9 Tew feet spart the upper ones 
a few inches only; segments pleasing green on both sides, 
fiat or the margins above the middle more or legs wavy, and 
apex slightly recurved, subchartac cous; frutescent’ fronds 
toward or at the top only; old stene turning straw eolor; 
young fronds or rather etems, soft, terete, dark green, 
growing up in between the older ones for support; rhizome 
1/3 ineh thick, bendable, short branched, covered with dense 
nearly bliack heirs; roote 1/8 inch thick or less, blackish, 
very flexible, sparingly rebranched, numerous, svereging 
6 inehes leng; “nito;* Magallanes, May, 1910, 
12449, Unona merrittii Lerr. Stunted tree in thickets 
or light woods along the sen-coast; stem 6 inches thick, 15 
feet high: branches divaricately spreading, 211 along the 
stem from near the base, rebranched the ultimate ones sscend~ 
ing and yellowish green; wood rather soft, odorless and 
tasteless, yellowish; bark smooth, grayish white; branches 
Slender ond lax; leaves descending, coriaceous, deep sublucia 
green above, flat or shallowlyy folded, glaucous beneath; 
infruteseence clustered slong the branchlets, upon very 
short grayish white tubercles; peduncle pendulous, reddish 
as are also the short divaricately spreading pedicels; fruits 
globose, 1/2 inch thick, dark green, apparently leseeded; 
"Dogen;” Magallanes, May, 19109, . 
; 12450, Wieus hauili Dleo. treet or aseending shrub 
in light woods near the sea-coast; stem 4 inches thick, 10 
feet high, branched from below the middle; wood soft, sappy 
white or yellowish tinged toward the center, odorless and 
tasteless; bark emooth, grayish white; branches spreading, 
quite numerously rebranched, tough; petioles seurfy brown, 
ascendingly curved; blades limp, deep ¢reen snd usually 
folded upon the upper side, paler green beneath, main veins 
whitish; figs solitary or in axillary pairs, flattish globose, 
3/4 inch serose, more or less ridged especially toward the 
apex, densely covered with trownish white lenticels, hard, 
deep green towmrd the sunken umbilicus, whitish toward the 
base, upon stout triangular stalke lese than 1/2 inch in 
length; “Labnog."” Hagallanes, May, 1910, 
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