14091, Athyrium merrillii Ccpel. move lax & Slenier 
than typical planiBe terrestrial in red wet seil at the 
base of biuffe et 6900 feet of the lesser Hasay peek in 
humid depressions of denee woods; rhizome 6/4 inch thick, 
flexible, deseendingly and ascendingly eurved; roots fi- 
brous, ample, black; fronds ascending from the base, Strongly 
yeeurved or horizontelly spreading over the wet ground; stipe 
herbaceous, black, rather eesily bresking; segnents flat or 
a trifle descending, dork shining steel blue or green above, 
light green benesth, ahartaceous and oesily breaking; "Tegot" 
in Manche; CGabadberan, October, 1912, 
L4082% Humsta heterophylla (Sms) Deev, Tn shallow 
hamus eovered earth and olimbing ex creeping slong moist 
mess covered ledges near the top of a very steep wooded 
deep ravine of Cawilanean peak on the Dalahion river side 
at 4260 feet; stems ocessionaliy branched forming thin 
masses, pale green, terete, very flexible, covered with 
seft fuliginens heirs; leaves descending, quits rigid, 
the brownish rigid mioekk stipes escending, blade usual- 
ly somewhat qurved and a trifle paler green beneath, the 
fruiting frond slenderer and very oddly segmented; “Seg- 
ecvem" in Menobo, Cabadberan, October, 1912, 
14083,  Myrmecedia urdenetensi® Elms nm. Sp. Upen Limbs 
ef forert trees in the very huaidly densely wooded lagoon 
besin at 4750 feet altitude or higher; bulbs solitery or 
few clustered, when 2 or more burely grown together at base, 
varying from & te 6 inches Leng end proportionately in thicke 
ness, @llipseid or usnally the older ones thicker below the 
middle, enuenmber-shaped, the surface neerly ardesiacus, wi th 
shallow more or less longitudinally eurved ridges, which sare 
provided with soft spines, hervaceous, honeycombed canals 
brown, otherwise the ment is white or greenish white; neok 
short, thiek, solid; leaves arranced in 4 longitudinal mwa, 
termine], erect, Soon felling and leaving the conspicuous 
pleted sears; petiole erect, white; blade rigidly co- 
riaccous, flat or only epex recurved; dull green on both 
eides;. the flower ant feulting row@ alternsting with the 
leeves or their scars, flowers white, the juicy ell&psoid 
fruits whitich in the young stete salmon yellow when ripe, 
faintly streaked long&tudinally; Cubadbaran, October, 1912, 
14004. Cheronia hispidulse Ames, Suall deseending or 
pendent tufts upon Small limbs of medium sized trees in a 
very humid forested depression at 3500 feet and between Du} 
vos and Cewllanan; roote profuse, greenish grey, fibrous, 
vather tightly atteched; stea diverse in length, leat 
cevered from the base; leaves coriaceous, in 2 opposite 
and alternating row®, ansiferm end imbrieste at the, the 
overlapping margins much peler greon; spike terete, ag~- 
eendingly curved, pale green; the divericete and oderless 
flewere more yellowish green; “Bantoen” in Manobo.  Cabad- 
baran, October, 1912. 

