yellow on the inside; branchlets erect, green; petioles 
yoddigh, mostly sacending; blades descending, subcoria- 
eeous, very Smooth, decp green ebove, muGh peler or gleucons 
green beneeth, eurving upon the upper Side; e@taninate 
Spike terminal ani ereet, the male flowers yellowish and 
sessile; the few female are noar the base and upon Bender 
aseending pedicele; fruits glanueous green exeept the 
yellowish greon stigma lobes, obovately subcomprasseds 
eecde £2, attached from the epex of the central placentae, 
pendent after the exeearp has fallen, brown, Slightly 
yugose, trigonons, the inner side amply covered with a 
juioy deep red moat; “Buntetoli"; Brooke Point, Feb« 
ruery, 19lle 
Smilax leneophylie Bim. Clivnbing over light 
Cetthehrubs, in dang eee soil of the Lare 
feet; stem less then 1/2 ineh thick, 
tough, tercte, Shinine green, looping, previded on &]1 
' gide® with sherp green spines slightly retrerte; wood 
toukh, white, odorless end tasteless; petioles yellow- 
teh green, subterete, twistingly ond seceniingly eurved, 
stipules dry end brittle; leave® Slightly deseending, 
rigidly coricceens, deep sreen en the upper shellowly 
folded surface, glaucous ereen beneath; young infru~ 
tegcence sxillery, few brenched, all the Stalks pale 
green, the glebowe fruite glieueous ereen, turing pur- 
pligh bleck when meture; the natives ext the green 
fruits end are said to be delichous when meture; “Be~ 
nage" Brooks Point, Pebrunry, 1911, 
12614, ~“Phaleenopais amabilis aphrodite Ames. On 
branches end Stems in weode along the Lere river flat st 
25 feet; roote flattened, flexible, ereyi®h; lest elus- 
teré horizontal; the les’ beee® pale green and imbricate-~ 
ly clasping; blsdes rigid end thick, shallowly felided 
on the upper nearly green surface, elliptic, never blotched; 
peduncle arieinege from the side of the stem near the root 
crown, brownish ani minutely spotted; flowers odorless, 
upon whitish peticels, nesrly S inches seross, all the part 
Snow white exeept the lower orgen; this lower organ is 
quite rigid end ite segments blent white with light yellow, 
the middle and Isteral segmente are purplish @tresked; 
"Pileuwag;" Broek®s Point, 7iiReho 2911. 
1E61 8. Lepidegnthis amarenthoides Elm, G. Bp,  Eract 
herbe in damp ox moiat soll of fertile weeded Tlate at 10 
feet altitude, Stem deep purple red with greenish Strize, 
tereteg Solitery, or few from the tame root, sparingly 
brenehed above the middle usually; 1 te 3 feet high; 
leaves ®lizhtiy aseendinz, subcoriaceous, dull depp green 
above, whitf/ish #0 beneath; petioles purple; inflores- 
sence Suberéet, short branehed, the numerous flowers 
Becundly arranged; braets greenish with blackish tips, 
turning purplish when older, eventurily becoming dry 
and brown; flowers @ivaricate, white, the lower Seg- 
ment purple blotehed, anthers yellowish; “Tisgeng." 
brooks Point, Pebruary, 1°11. 

