desper green Surfece; flowers usually upon short ascending 
dark green or blackish stalks, terminal or subterminal; 
Galyx green with brown margins; the 4 petale equel and with 
the large glutinous stigma luteus; the 4 Ssteamineal phlanges 
eitrinus. Puerto Princesa, April, 19lle 
13028, tepidagzethis ineequalis Clarke. Somewhat suc- 
Gulent biennisl herbs, erceping in wet fine gravelly #011 
en exposed stream benke at 50 feet; stems branched, taking 
reots at the joints, finally suberect, angular, reddish 
tinged; iexves spreading, thinly soriaceons, mach paler 
green boneath, the gone ox the main nerves yellow on the 
upper otherwise dark green surfece, flat; infloreseance 
terminal or subterminal, erect, the dense areenish bracte 
secundly arranged; flowers delicate, aecending, pure white 
except the middle lobe of the lower lip which has a bright 
purple spot eon the upper side, tubuler exeept the cons- 
tricted basal portion, 2/16 inch longa; inner bracts es 
well s# the calyx whi tie with grecn tips or segments, 
Puerto Princesa, April, 1911]. 
15020, ASterine transversalis Syd, nov. Spec. Upon 
the upper side of « climbing rattan (Palmec), eollected in 
moist. S011 of dense woods along a Glear weter Stream at 30 
feet altitude; eolonis more or less circular in #hepe, 
promiscuously Scattering over the entire blede, cavéing the 
green blade to turn yellowish in the infested regions only; 
Spore eaves elongnted, dull bleek; Puerto Prineese, April, 
19ll« 
13031.  Dryopteris lineata group of D. lineata. So 
litary tufts in wet black fine erevelly #011 on banks of & 
Glear water atream flowing through eopses and light woods 
at 50 feet; rootetoek short, nearly prostrate, giving rise 
to numerous bleck fibrous roots senda nunber of fronds; sti pes 
terete, green, Boft,in texture, ascending; ‘frond proper 
gracefully reaurved; pinnae membranous, Tlet, paler green 
beneath; fertile frond centrel; more erect and usually 
Longer than the sterile ones ; sori olivaccoas, Puerte 
Pringespa, April, 1911. 
12022,  Frullenia depitana Steph, Densely matting 
the upper side of the branches of an Ipil tree at about 
50 feet altitude; stems and branches numerous and forming 
soft masses, the tltimate branches ascendingly curved; 
the folisge pale green, turning @ull or reddish brown 
when old; Spore cases oliveeeous, pendent from the stens 
and branches; old stems turning neerly black; Puerto 
Princesa, “pril, 1911. 
15083, Barfingtonie crrenii Merr. Unbranched or 
only Sparingly branched erect SQhrub-like free in red atieky 
8011 eevercd with ferest humus, of woods at 50 fert; stem 
6 inches thick, terete, erooked, nesrly 20 feet high, 

