16162.  Leca menilleneis WaPs Slender erect Shrubs 
or Ghrub-like tree on wooded ridges or among ledges at 1600 
foot. Gtem 16 te 20 feot high, few te several inches thick, 
Subterete, cooxed, ususliy few branched; wood fibers pulpy, 
the lérge pith white: bark yellewieh eray, Saoothishy leaves 
alternating, ehiefiy tex ra the end ad the ater oF branohes, 
2 to & feet long, 2 : : 
gurved, folded and Anlated ‘See ard the LPs coh green artery 
triengular in outline, the peticle ge pe thickenef at 
the base; inflorescence terminal and ecreot, brig ant red even 
in the wad Btate; fruits much eonpressed, even thedz Stalks 
red; Irosin, May, i916, 
16167. Alpinia jJongipetiolatea Elm, tse Sp. Tn Loose 
wet earth anong stones of very Oteep ani éensely woeded gule 
hes e% 2009 feet, Cinsters: & or Pgiibdgians ereat or ase 
sending; qalnone 1/2 ineh thiek, short, oocesionelly branched, 
terete, covered with brown bracta: atem green, penne — 
at the base, leas then 1/2 4: | thick, 6 feet 
bearing above the middle, re We 
horizontal or weeerved a awe 1 z 
curved &tpeyepale green cap beneath, 
thlaly GOria¢esus, Sheath ine. son iieh ether 
the sucending petiole i green and samen peck above: inflerens« 
cenee ery ge | ourved, nen, ocensionally short prenenet 
the aseending buds and. i cic re a@yemeus execpt the yellowish 
green avery: young fruite aneld, deop green, glebose, the 
Size of peas; Irowin, May, 1916. 
L6L5B, Alpini& vuleaniee Rims ne SP. rmMell @lwaps 
apon the oreck bed rocks at the upper efce of high fable 
in humid weeded gulehes at 2000 fact oteme 4, olosely 
Gonnected and enlarged st the hase, 5 te & feat long, an~ 
Geading end recurved, i/f tO 3/4 inch thiek, very pale green 
end covers: with shredded o1/ sheaths, subcoupressed toward 
the top; roots profune, terete, rigid, 1 to & feet long, 
yollowish brown, arising fron the Stem betes; leaves from 
the middle er townré the tep only; the green neBeonding petioles 
Sroeved end gompressed, tightiy folding the eteme; blades 
submembrenous, nearly z at, areocetully reeurved, pleasing 
green but lish beneath ipe reenry fis infloreseence. tar~ 
minsl, eseendingiy ourved, ‘igi, the terete etalk pale or 
yellowish green; Tlovars brranged Bleng the under or outer 
eine, frou the middle; the thick flower basen isabellinus, 
Reflowersd but of very different agees Calyx? | lig rigid, 
* 3 
the Gorclia leo rigid and cremens exeept the greenish tip; 
Irosgin, May... 1916. 
16171.  Vichrotrichpm chorisepaium Clarke, Climbing 
long tree trunks of dense woods at the uppers edge of & pre 
Gipioa, at ROOd fect. Stem yellowish pray, very flexible, 
rebranghed and fording mate; petioles pale green, asceniing; 
blades coriaceous, anch lighter arcen beneath, fist; pedunel of 
deseending, green or browniich ebove; cedorless flowers ae- 
eending ani reaurved, ealyx aren, the corolla purpureue; 
Troein, Hay, 1916. 

