12500. ‘YTeetaria irregularis (Presl1) Copel. 
ferrestrial cluaps in compact red 8011 covered with grasses 
and shruberries on hill slopes at 750 feet; rhizome short, 
herisontally branched, 1 to 2 inches thick, or less, densely 
covered with Slender brown Sceles; stipes ascending, Scale 
covered toward the base, varying from 1 to 3 feet long, brown 
or the upper flattened side green; fronds a® long, recurved, 
triangular elongate in outline; pinnae Similarly pale green 
on both sides, strongly recurved, ®ubmembranous, the centrel 
fertile fronds, more erect, a trifle longer, heevier and 
with coriaceous pinnae with its cirevlar brown sori Strung 
along the margin; "Paco." Magallanes, May, 1910. 
12501. Diospyroe rvrosenblunthii Elms. Mm. 8p. large 
tree in moist Zertile alluvial soil of dense woods along 
the Patos river at 750 feet; stem 21/2 feet thick, 40 feet 
high, terete; branches scattering above the middle, reletively 
short and forming a thin elongated erown, rigid, crookedly 
rebrenched; wood white, moderately hard, odorless and 
tasteless; bark thick, reddish brown beneath the dull brown 
epidermis which Scales in thin irregular plate®; leaves 
coriaceous, deseending, Shining rich green above, Slightly 
paler green bencath, shallowly folded upon the upper side 
especially so toward the recurved apex; inflorescence 
axillary, the calyx a® well as the recurved Stalks green; 
corolla creamy white pendulous, thick, deciduous, including 
the stamens; "Hinla-bata.” Magallanes, May, 19106 
12505. Bris vulpine Reichb. Small dense tufts upon 
the larger limbs of trees in weods along the Patos river 
-penks at 760 fo 1000 feet; stems terete, less than.1/z inch 
thick, green, ascending toward the apex, varying from 1 to 
3 feet long, more or less thickened at the bave and covered 
with light brown hairs; leaves descending, leathery; paler 
green benesth, sides wavy and apex much recurved, much 
reduced toward the base; inflerescence descending, leat- 
opposed, yellowish green as are also the thick bracts; the 
odorless flowers pendulous, dull flesh red, the perianth 
tips yellowish green, and ‘he blunt spur purplish black. 
Magallanes, Mey, 1910. 
12504.  umata heterophylla (Sm.) Desv. On 6 large 
Diospyros tree, stending in humid forested flats of elluvial 
soil near the Patos river at 750 feet; reotstocks very 
flexible, blanehed, forming interlaced masses closely about 
the larger branches, green, terete, covered with reddish 
brown Ssetose-like haire; fronds rigidly coriacecus, a 
tvifle paler green bencath, usually twisted and the sides 
more or ket less curved upon the under side, the sterile 
ones much broader than the linear ones which usually develope 
at the growing tips of aPC. Magallanes, 

