7856, Blechnum egregium Copel. Rosette like tufts 
from short erect 2 to 3 inch thick rootstock or trunk, 
usually on very damp soil of ‘washouts" near streams of ravines 
at 760 meters; sterile fronds strongly and gracefully recurved 
until their tips touch the ground, coriaceous, dark green above, 
much paler beneath; sporophylls erect, more or less succulent. 
Lucban, may, 1907. 
W657. Miaega, 1axea hes. Shrubs 3 meters high, in shrubbery 
bordering meadows at 750 meters; wood easily splitting, compara- 
tively soft; bark brown, densely covered with lenticels; leaves 
membranous, paler green beneath, soon withering after being cut; 
infrutescence rather short and confined along the twigs; berries 
dark rusty brown; dull yellow when fully mature, Luecban, 
May, 1967, 
7658. Medinilla magnifica Lindl. Seandent shrubs, sprawl- 
ing and forming. bushes of a widely spreading kind; wood easily 
preaking, dull white; old bark rough md coarsely checked; 
leaves leathery, some of them 2 feet long and a foot wide, 
hanging like elephants' ears, dull green above, paler beneath; 
inflorescence terminal but frequently from the branches, pendulous 
upon as long flattened peduncles as the inflorescence proper, 
sometimes & meter w long, usually with 2 to 3 whorls of pink cone 
cave bracts; nerves of bracts, peduncles pedicels, calyx and 
corollas of a deeper pink; filaments yellow; anther horns (7?) 
bluish; quite common in woods at 800 meters and far below this 
along ravines, it is exceedingly pretty and the most showy and 
floriferous Melastomataceae ever seen by the collector. 
Lucban, May, 1907. 
7859, Trichomanes pluma Hook. Lucban, May, 1907. 
7865, Gryptomeria leptostachys Planch. Lucban, May, 1907. 
7866, Alpinia elegans (Presl.) Schum. Tall 2 to 4 meters 
high, forming large patches along the shrubbery of meadows and 
fields at GUO meters; leaves subcoriaceous descending, rich smooth 
green above, paler beneath, the lowermost much smaller and 
scattering; inflorescence erect, 1/2 to 1 foot long or even 
longer, rigid; flowers arranged in distichous rows, ascending, 
subtended by marcescent gheath; calyx rigid, reddish; corolla 
creamy white, soft but rather succulent; disk shaped stigma red- 
dish snd filled with a tasteless mucilaginous liquid; very common, 
capsule hard, yellowish white, 1 1/2 ineh long, ellipsoid; seeds 
dark brown or nearly black, eaten by the natives. 
Lucban, May, 1907. 
7867,  Gyclophorus achrostichoides (Forst.) Presl. var. 
gracilis Copel, Lueban, kay, 1907. 
7878. Gorydelina terminalis Linn. Lueban, May, 1907. 
7Ta76, Bbregnia cernua ull. Arg. Lueban, May, 1907. 
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