12729, Gymnostechyam eubeordetum Wim n. ap. Porm- 
ing dense messes upon wooded streem benke of more or less 
sandy soil at 250 feet; roots terete, dirty yellowieh, 
flexible; stems similar, creeping, brenched, their tips 
subereect and leaf bearing; bledes horisoutelly spreading, 
subcoriaceous, rether rugore and darker green on the upper 
eurfsee; peduncles and petioles lileeinus; flowers ascend- 
ing, arranged slong one side only; vreets and oalyx green; 
corolla £-lipped, the upper one much emsller, white, the 
lower one finely spotted in the throat; overy and anther 
gonneetivee green, the pollen eaecke and filements. dark 
Vinosus, the style creamy white; Puerto Princesa, Merch, 
191i. 
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L730. Paecinisa leochroma Syd. nov. spec. Upon 
the under side of the old leaves of Acanthsceae number 
12729; forming more or lese eirealar peatehes and causing 
the disessed portion of the green bledes to turn dirty 
yellow; the nucerous epore poekets badius brown. Hoet; 
Gymnostachyum subvcordatum lm. Puerto Prineesa, March, 
1911. 
12731. Pandanus reeclinegtus Mart. n. sp. Low, 1 
to 3 feet high only, in olay packed between smsll bowléere 
in s creek bed occassionally filled with stagnant smell 
poole, in woods at 250 feet; forming dense mésses all 
along, very similer to coarsely leaved Carex pstehes; 
stema bendable, 6 to 12 inches long, oceasionally branched, 
1/2 to 1 ineh thiek, reclining, altimetely eubereet prop- 
roote wiry, terete, 1/3 ineh thick: leaves oretuse, sscend- 
ing from the bese and graoefully recurved, derk shining 
grecn sbove, lighter end dyller beneath, the old shesthing 
beves becoming marceseent shreds, deeply ehanuelled slong 
the apper side, spiny along the mergine end along the 
median line beneath; ctamimete infloreeeence creamy white 
as ere aigo the breete except their gee green tips, odorless; 
heads Gark green, upon ascending 6 inehes long tkxeenguier 
triangular and bresteated peduneles, subglobose, 2 inches 
in diameter solitary; pistillate hesde or rether flowers 
flevar ex yellow; drapes when meture exactly eruntiaenue; 
Puerto Princesa, Here, 1911, 
12782. Verzisevlerie Pendeni Syd. nov. spec. On 
both sides of the old besel leaves of Pnadanus namber 
12751; spote muunerouc, niger, more numerous toward the 
bese of the leaves, thefel reuler spore eases deeper and 
shining black, the eolonies usually ake cirenler in outline; 
Puerto Prineess, Mareh, 1911. 
there are two fungii on the ieavee (1) on the basal 
leaf pert, lerge vleck patches. Tnie is quite immetaure, 
slthough it looks very well, (2) on the upper pert of 
Slmost ali the leaves, tere are very minute punetiform 
Be bleck sesttered not essily viei ble perithecia. 
Thies is Vermieuleria Pandeni n. sp. Host: Pandaenus 
reclinatus Mart. 

