Li4274 AéStronie apoensis Elm ne 6p, ‘Tree~Like 
Shrub 15 feet high with ea 4 inch thick stem,alang a very 
moi#t wooded Streamlet at S506 feet of mount Apos wooed seft, 
whitish, without oder or teste; bark yellowish brown, cheeked; 
brenches at the tep mainly, accending, few, sparingly rebranche 45 
Ctiwige erect, 1 inch thick, green, sore or less quadrangular; 
petiole eseendinga, green, Sueenlent, deeply sreeved along the 
upper side, the edges fringed with soft eoarse halre; leaves 
fist, e®eending, seattered every 3 to 6 inches apart, heavy, 
eoriaccous, Cerk green md lucid shove, mach paler beneath, 
only the blunt tips recurved; peduncle usually 3, more or 
1888 recurved from the upper leaf exile or terminel, 6 inches 
lena, green, anguinr; fruiting peniele grean, 1 feet high 
and fully at wide: “Bagebe;* Todeya, August, 1909. 
11426, Guereus submenticele Elms My Sp. An epiphyte 
upon the mosey limbe of large trees in moist forests at 6506 
feet of mout Apo; wteme 6 feet long sseending, branches, 
with tough, white, odorless and tasteless wood covered with 
aray minutely checked bark; twig# eseending, quite rigid: 
leaves whorled, ateending, flat, dull screen above, yellow- 
ish 80 beneath; inflorescence terminal, odorless; the pedicels 
red, escendingiy Spreading; corolle white, thickest at t he 
bag@e; style and filements whitish, stigma yellowish green, 
anthers brown; flowers straight, ascendingly spreading; 
"Sapotasa."  Todaya, September, 1969. 
LL4296 Poria berbonica Pets. Upon herd surfaced loge 
lying upon damp earth of woods at 6500 feet of mount Ape 
at 6506 feet; forming large petehees upen the lower or 
sheltered side, dry, brittle, hard, cinnamon brown; "“Xelat;" 
fodaysa, Angust, 1909, 
11430, Denneiseitia Hoeverk Ghrist.  ferresirial 
tefts in danp earth slong streamlet® of woods at 5600 feet 
‘Of mount Apo; Stipes several, 5 feet long, ateending, sub- 
terete, 1 inoh thick, dened y soy ered with echoeolate brow 
heirs; frondae eqally eS long, broadly spreading; the pinnse 
below the middle the largest; pinnules Slightly descending, 
flat, Some darker green above, sori brown in thimble-like 
packets arising from the sinuses of the eegmente; "“Lalobungan;" 
Todeya, Augnet, 1909. | 
11461.  Sonerile woodil Merr, On moss covered bow ders 
along « densely shaded creek at 6000 feet of Apo. 3 tee 
end leavea green and flaceid, the former when exposed reddish; 
flowers «iso delicate, larze, pink or purplish! Elmer. 
fedaya, Auguat, 1909, 
11432. Hymenolepie epieata (Lf.) Presi. Hanging 
tufts upon moss mose covered tres trunke at 6000 feet in 
denbe woods of mount Apo; reotsteck rigid, green, cov ered 
with brown Seales; Stipes and rachis pale green; fm nds 
thickly coriaceous, the margins slightly turned upon the 
under Somewhat paler green surface; the tipe elongated md 
Spore bearing upon the lower surfeee; “Berawit;" Todaya, 
August, 1909. . 
576. 

