
_ 8082. Dryopteris lusonies Christ. Smell erect tufts on 
damp earth slides or upon ledges of steep ravines at 800 meters; 
fronds from 1 to 6 feet long, the larger ones spore bearing usual- 
ly; pinnee quite thin end soft, nearly equal in color on both 
sides; stipes green, rather soft. Lucban, May, 1907. 
8036 a. Begonia axysperma DC. On shrubs and lowemlimbs of 
trees in woods of very humid places at 750 to 900 meters, Seandent 
and about 3 to 9 meters above ground forms a small tangled bush (7); 
stems, petioles and flower stalks green, suceulent, stringent sour, 
with reddish seeles; inflorescence descending, gorgeously brick 
red or of a deep salmon color; leaveg very leathery, dark shining 
green above, ashy green beneath and densely (7) set with minute 
reddish spinules, base strongly twisted and conduplicate. This is 
by far the prettiest Begonia I ever saw and it certainly would 
demand # high price if 1t could be brought in cultivation of our 
green houses. But the woods with an even humidity appears to make 
the trensplanting an imposeibility. The fruits retain the same 
“eolor for a long time, The stems are eaten by the natives as an 
appetizer. Lueban, May, 1907. 
»* 8038. 3ria vulpina Reichb. Forming clumps upon lower limbs 
of large trees in damp woods at 750 meters especially where trees 
overhang the River; steme descending, mostly groen, very 
tough, leaflete thick, leathery, usuelly with reourved tips; 
inflorescence leaf opposed, subpendulous; flowers thick flesh red. 
Lucben, May, 1907. 
8039. Freycinetia multiflora Merr. Scandent upon tree 
trunks of woods at 600-800 meters; stems 3/4 inch thick very hard 
and wiry, not numerously branched: slender sparingly branched 
branches subdeflexed; bark brown smooth, with rings 1 inch apart; 
leaves dark green above, paler green beneath, subcoriaceous; 
pedunele short, 1/2 inch, thick, terete, subtended by recurved, 
green end marcescently margined bractc, 1 to 3 inehes long; the 
‘green immature heads hard, 3 to 5 elustereé, all upon equally 
long 1 inch pedicels; Heads subterete, from 1 to & inches long 
in the same cluster, erect. Lueban, Mey, 1907. 
8040. Medinilla disparifolia 6. B. Rob. Lax shrubs, 4 
meters high, near and overhanging very damp stream beds of deep 
ravines at 800 meters; bark yellowish, very rough with lenticels; 
branches crookedly and widely spreading; wood pale, white soft, 
and easily breaking; flat subeorisaceous leaves dark Gull green 
above, yellowish green beneath, horizontally spreading; infru- 
tescence terminel or from the branches, subdeflexeé, 1 to 3 
inches long, subovol@ in shape, 1 1/2 inch in diameter, light 
red but when fully mature pale blue. Lueban, May, 1907. 
6041. Athyrium grammitoides (Presl) Milde. Very abundant 
on damp moss selaginelle and hymenophylla sovered rocky earth of 
a cliff in a densely shaded ravine or gorge at 800 meters: root- 
stocks loose, horizontel or subhanging from the roeks terminated 
by & small tuft of fronds; pinnae soft membranous, dark green 
above, much paler beneath. Lucban, May, 1907. 
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