or yellowish green beneath, with recurved tips snd conduplicate 
upper sides; infhorescence terminal or subterminal rather heavy 
and in the bud state succulent; flowers deciduous or more pro- 
perly caduoous, pale cream color; wood white hard; younger 
bark light grey or mottled with brown, on the twigs lenticelled 
anthers deep yellow;  Lucban, May, 1907. 
9016, Dryopterie dubia Copel., nm. 3p. Small erect 
tufts in loamy humus covered #011 in woods on banks of 4 dry 
etream bed at 850 meters; stipes dark brown or nearly black, 
not rigid; frofts gracefully recurved; pinnse soft pubescent; 
fronds all the way from 6 inghes to 3 feet long; Lucban, 
May, 1907. 
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9O1L7, Athyrium pallidum (2lm.) Wilde. Rootsatock short, 
erect, veveral inches thick; stipes rather soft, turning near- 
ly black when exposed; pinnae dark green on both sides, coria- 
ceous; stives densely clothed at the base by blackish scales 
in fertile well drained and humus covered soil of jungles and 
woods at 800 meters; not common; Lucban, May, 1907, 
9018, Lygodium scandens (lL.) Sw. Numerously branched, 
forming dense mats, overhanging and festooning shrubbery bor- 
dering fields snd mesdows; stems and branches very smooth, 
dark brown or nearly shining black, of * twining nature; leav’r. 
e# rather thin, palejereen, the margins strongly and-irregular- 
iy recurved; the sporophylls, ususily shorter and broader, 
Lucban, May, 1907. 
9019. Lygodium cireinatum (Durm,) Swtz, Festooning 
shrubbery of wooded ravines at 700 meters; foliage thin, darkey” 
a green above; stems slender wiry green and smooth; forming 
“more or less tangled bushes; rare; Lucban, May, 1907, 
9021, Polypodium eubsauriculatum Blm. Upon tree trunks 
3 meters from the ground of damp woods at 750 meters; rootstocks 
glaucous, well cleaving to its support and branched forming 
loose or scattering mats; stipe and rachis very slender, smooth, 
brown, the basal 91/4 without pinnae; pinnae flat, thin, ..< 
equally green on both sides, at right angles to the rachis, 
those above the middle usually spore bearing: fronds varying 
from 2 few feet to a few meters in length, grecefully hanging 
in a festoon like fashion; pinnae toward the base usually lLarg- 
er; Lucban, May, 1907, 
9622, Hietip teris incise (Thurb.) Agarth. Patches, 
forming dense thickets in open glens or bordering copses of 
the woodlands at 800 meters} 2 meters high; stems 39 thick as 
a man's finger, glaucous steel blue; branches widely axrunsingx 
spresding and interlaced; leaves lighter green benes th; 
Lucban, lig, 1907, 
9025. Hymenophyllum obtusum H, and A, Hanging upon 
dry but deeply shaded cliffs slong water auuses courses at 
2000 feet; quite leoeal but plentiful where favorable condi- 
tions prevail; Lueban, May, 1907, 

