16364. Dendrobium spuriun Js J. Sm Banging on #mali- 
tree trunks, £0 feet above the very damp ground ef dense forests 
at £000 feet, Stems rigid, branched and ereaping, forming 
@lusicrs, yellowifh green; the leafy stems deseending, thin 
and wiry toward the hase, dull sreen though eevered with mar~ 
eescent Sheath®, «sich thickened toward the leaf hearing tips, 
descending though outwardly curved teward the leaves; blades 
Geseending, lucid on the upper much darker sreen side, rigidly 
eorieceous flat, tips reeurred; flewers eremeus except the 
inner rigid organ which is surentinens exeept the deep purple 
apieal portion, ari@ing from the Side or base] leaf portion; 
Trotin, June, 1926. 
16393, theixspermum wenzelil Ames, Forsing leese 
Ciumpe upon trees at 750 feet, “tens yellowish green, wiry, 
subtercte, Sprawling or pendant; lesve® rigidly corieceous, 
horizontal, flat with recurved tips; roote numerous, grayish 
white and wiry; peduneles diverieste or ascending, yellowish, 
breets greenish; flowers yellowish sreen, the sreen fluted 
descending pod® rigid; Irosin, June, 1916. 
16409. Agenthophifpum mantissianum Lind, & Goan, 
Huecuient herbe in very wet bleck humus covered eoil of dense 
forested dapres#ions st £260 feet; Steme few to several in 
& eontiguous cluster erect, Subterete, dark green, 1 inch 
thick at the beae, with few longa yellowish coarse reots which 
are flexible; leaves few, sscending from the folded bere, 
otherwise Strongly reeurved, gorisececus, Slightly paler 
beneath; the atropurpurens peduncle suberest and arising from 
the interal basal portion of the younger etem$ . breete ei- 
mijexr in eolor; flover erect, heavy, voon a rigid’ fluted 
Staik of a atropurpnrens eolory; heod yellow below the aiddle, 
deep purple ahove, the inner versatile organ® yellowish; oder- 
ieee; the closed bud Similer in eeclex te the Hood whieh faces 
isteraily; Iresin, June, 1915, 
16450. Pteris decussate dy im, ‘Seattering elwape 
in wet stony groumi, ason¢ 
at 1750 feat. 
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