20491. lecanopteris pumile Ble This anterooted 
fern was found collected on an Ardisia tree number 10490 
in dense moist woode at 4000 feet; root etalk glaucous 
green ond forming a solid mesa not dissimilar te e relief 
map of @ mounteinons section, brown on the inner cavities, 
fronds suberect; etipe brown, arizing from ea conical 
protuberance of the root Stalk; pinnae of sterile fronds 
thinner and somewhat wider; those of the fertile fronds 
gracefully recurved, the @pinules of the veinlets developed 
inte conspicueusly reised and somewhet flattened sori 
pouches which inetead of being green as the pinnse have 
& yellowish appearance; “Libegod;" Prondis occasionally 
Subsglevcous beneath, *og@aye, May, 1909s 
10492.  ‘Trishosperum ascleploides Films, Me 8D. 
Paraeitic on the ent-infested roctsteck masse of fern 
wimber 10491; steme flexible, grayish white; leaves very 
thick, rigid, with recurved tips, yellowish green on the 
upper Bide, much paler benenth and with « dserk purple 
midrib; young inflorescence terminal, yellowish green, 
erect, not rigid; corolle segments purplish streaked on 
‘ the immer side; "Culili"; cdorless, ‘odaya, May, 190%. 
10493. Peperomia elmeri G. Ks te @pe. Succulent 
herbs heneine from the under side of s thick inelined 
humus covered tree trunk in moist forests at 4000 feet; 
reotes reidish, fleshy, easily dctatched; stems terete, 
soft, green or reddish, numerous and forming loose clumps, 
only Speringly branched; ieaves thinly coriaceous, limp, 
flat, -much paler beneath, deseending, spikes green, after 
anthesis yellowish, asgending from the leaf axile, 1 to 
& inches lone; “Salibutebut." Todega, May, 1909. 
10494. igus peabodyi Kim, ns Spe lerge tree 
with e 45 feet high and 11/2 feot thick stem in humid 
Woode at 4000 feet; branches widely apresdiing; bark 
eceyish brow mottled, lenticelledg fruits hanging upon 
weather flexible and numerously rebrenched woody tubercles along 
the larger branches only; ‘tubercles 6 inches to a foot or twe 
long; reveptecles greenish, turning yellowish with maturity, 
less then an ineh large, usuelly horned about the upper 
Llettened end with bract like pretuberances; numerouely 
Spotted with minute brown lenticels which are immediately 
eurrounded by yellow erene; breete of the green pedunele 
thick and of the same celor; leeves rather thin, shiny and 
darker green on the upper surfece, flat, the strong nerves 
beneath whitish; Baeik@n." ‘Tedaya, May, 1909. 
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