14006, Melas toma npnnanee Mert. Sukerect and spreade 
ing Shrube in black wet #oi1 of e jungled Sepesetsen at $000 
fect or on the sumait ridse of Givantanan; tem Solitery or 
few @lustered, few inches thiek, 16 fect high, terete but more 
or less curved, kbranehed from below the middle; wood soft, 
Seppy white, ederless and without teste; bark amooth and 
yeliowith gray or brown, saetancus except the epidermis; 
agin branches few rehreached, the brown twigs avcending, 
leaves submeabranous, horizontal oF mottiy deseending, paler 
green beneath; inflorescence erect, the @telke and ¢eal yx 
provided with light greyish ereen breets, petale feep lilae 
cinus, filament and enther weee Light yellow, the eteending- 
Ly eurved anther portion pink or petal eolored se is alse 
the pistil; “Sapodoson” in Manobo, Cabedberan, October, 1912, 
14007 « Lasianthns obliquinervinus Merr, Low and erect 
undershrub in wet rich aan Boi of a densely jungled or 
Weedy depression st Bo0e : G iwante Ane oF on ive sune 
mit; stem 1/2 ineh thi LG j 
high, brenehed toward 4} “wood. a 
out odor or taste, soft, “the Le LL Ve 
eolored; hark amooth, yeliowls sh brey n, the 
green, the inner side wood eoler; branches 
green, unbranched, the uoper once Shorter; lea 8 gh Ete— 
eeous, horizontal er descending, £1 but Pg Stronaly 
reourved, Smooth and jueid aheve, lighter beneath; young 
fruit. green; when asture black elilipecialy elong ZB ted end 
at leest 1/2 inch dong; “Halimateu* in Menoho, Cabedba- 
gon, Oetober, L912. 
14608. iper ganinum sablenua 6, DG, Seanient along 
us 
& larce Tea trunk of o very Wunlé depresaicen at S000 faut 
or on the Summit of Giweantenen, in wot mats Bell; aten 
flexible, 1/5 ineh thie terete, were or Less erooked or 
curved, the sefdes ineenspieuens; > “enghes ereen, reletively 
Short, divarieate, strongly nodulos the Bott ~ tissue 
greenish white with redial linet and covered with brown 
Smoothish hark; leaves descending, subsoriascous, flat, 
Guli green sbeve, Subglaucovs beneath; infrutescensce upon 
@reen Suberect etalke, the individuse rt aliiptic fruits 
@hining vermillien red when mature; "Tasnpaden” in Manoho. 
Cabadbaran, Oetober, 1912. 
34010. Athyrium Blumei (Bergams.) Ocpel. | Few Steamed 
terrestrial clumps seattered in very damp fertile humus covered 
011 of a dens ely wooded ravine on or near the summit ridge 
of Giwantanan at S000 feet; stipes 2 to 3, ereet or downward« 
Ay curved, 1 te 2 yerds igh, auld green except toward the 
brown or bleck bese whichte only epar ingly beset with siniderly 
Golered Setse Like #éales, Slightly senioulete along the upper 
cide, with faint yellowish green lateral stripes toward the 
base only; fronds si trongly recurved and usually extending down 
hill, Sherter then the stipe; pinnes nearly herizontal mé 
flat, pleating deep green and Shining ahove, much paler green 
benesth, Submembrenous; rachie and Stipe beneath Finely 
Spinescent or prickly; | *Pinetecan" in Mancha. Cabadbaran, 
October, 19124 

