16672,  Yorthaleia leciniosa Mert, ‘ree ¢limber in 
humid forested pesewrere faeing the Paeifie at 2000 feet. 
&tem 2 inch thick or lese, areen, nearly twice as thick elong 
the leaf bearing portion; gheathe green » donsely Bet with 
yellowieh areen or brown epines 5/4 4nch long; the long in- 
terexillary Stipules alec esinescent end Pa: eigen RS mMarces « 
cent mombranc®; petioe flattencé, 1/2 te 2/4 ineh wide at the 
base, Smooth ox ny, § inohes long, aitheat. the prominent 
shoulder where it ine the sheath proper; frencs descending- 
ly reourved, 3 to 6 or the Jarger ones 8 fect long end With «a 
hooked. flagelie lece in length; lesfletsa chertaceeus descend- 
ing or @uby ant, sugulose, subglanecous beneath; green rachis 
pda We th ander eido: pantale terminal, & yard long or 
Longer: ite ehes gpreading, curved, clothed with smoed 
dark green eheethe:s the Plower oF fratt pearing portion such 
eurved, terete, fulvus, 1/2 inch thick; Stemé ieoping and 
wlsely @preading, oeensionally eaters at right angles, the 
branches @le@o long; Tro@in, duly, 1916. 
16685. ‘olynodiua x rupes tre 71. On big limbs in forcptes 
et £000 feat. "he blackish brewn rootstock bendable, covered 
with grayish hair-like seslesa, eroocked and rebrangched, forming 
imterinced masses; stipes erect, yellowish green to brown; blades 
quite rigid, a trifle recurved and peler sreon beneath; some 
of the sterile ae ohtueely rountied while here and there i8 one 
suunsnately pointed, tresin, July, 1916, 
16697, myecesne he! gah wg Te Climbing along large 
dimce of foreat trea "6 frets Reotetoek bendable, 
orooked, ooossi ‘onally branched, epavich sreen or o&eeous,; 
ieaves ascending, rigi¢ly gorine saous, their 6ti2f green #talke 
erect, Raz a! Tresin, July, 1916. 
LETGls Galamua synphopipus Mart. Eoeondent in dense 
woods of a Stony oh at 1000 feet. Sten inch thick, green, 
@mooth, nearly twice as thick along the lest bearing portion; 
sheaths dork gyeon or the younger ones glaucous white, with 
1/2 te $/4 ineh long anil yellowish £3 spines erranged in 
Seanereres rings. Jeaver sing 1 foot apart, divaricete 
A Puliy roourved, 5 to & fect longa; vachis 1 inech wide 
be ‘16% on the upper aide for the petiole portion, 
spinaneant n@ the @i: yz i otherwige amooth, the 
atout dark grcen shoulder emocth; leeflets teugh, chartaceous, 
gleuccur white beneath, otherwise dull groan, reourved: flugelle 
arising aside the lest er laterally abowe it, longer and Hanging, 
hooked slong the lower side from the middle toward the tip; 
ingrutoseenge eg® leng a8 the fronde, leteral, the shesthe (long) 
und nearly Smooth; branches slternating, recurved, lax; tho 
infrutescence with a lone hooked flagelle; TIrosin, July, 
19164 

