11.433, Athyrium geophilum Copel, Tuftlets upon moist 
moss covered surfaces of large bowldera lying along a — 
Let of dense woods in « deep ravine at 6000 feet of mou! 
Apo; tufts single but occasionally clustered at least cregsa- 
Yious: roots slender, flexible, black; etipes spreading, 
soft in texture, greenish above, brovnish beneath; leaves 
corieteous, flat, dark green sbove, somewhat waler beneath 
"Salimponcog/" Todays, August, 1909, 
. 11434. Melastoms lansense “err. Shrub 15 feet hich 
along the Ceriban creek at GGOO feet of mount Apo; wood 
moderately soft, odorless and tastelaes, sappy white or a 
trifle reddish in the center; bark brown, obscurely checked; 
branches ascending, the ultimate one lax; leaves ascending 
er herizgontal, flat or only the very tip recurved, soft 
eoriaceous, dull green above, posler benesth; inflorescence 
erect, turning reddish; calyx tipe ereen; petals ping, early 
falling: my style and filementes whitish; enther bases light 
yellow, the horns purplish; "Sasruc;* Tedaya, August, 1909, 
11425. Rhodedendron kochii Stein. Tre@elike shrub 
flong the Seriban ereek at GE00 feet of mount Apo, in dense 
woods, stem & to 6 inches thick, 10 te 20 feet high, usually 
inclining: branches aecending, rather numerously and laxly 
branched; wood soft, reddich white toward the center, with+ 
out oder or taste; bark brown, emoothienh; leaves in whoris, 
ascendingly recurved from the reddish petioles, ricidiy 
coriaceous, dark sublucid green above, much paler or yellove 
ish ereen beneath: pedicele reddish; flowers white, odorless, 
agcendingly spreading white; filemente whitish, anthers 
brownish; style end stigma greenish; "Valagues;" Todays, 
Auguat, i909, 
11436, Juncus effusus lL. Dense tustocks in sendy 
#011 salonz the “eriban ereek in dense woods st 6000 feet of 
mount Apo; stewe terete, green, except the shining brorn 
bages, the terminal pertions usually recurved, 21/2 feet 
Leng; infrutesecence Iateral; the numerous branches lax and 
pale white when mature: involucre of the same color; cap- 
gules triangularly obqyoid, shining brown; “Sud-esud;" 
Todaya, August, 1909, ' 
11437, Acer niveum Slim. Tree 45 feet high with a 
2 1/2 feet thick stem, upon a wooded ridge at 6600 feet of 
mount Ape: main branches from below the middle, widely epread- 
ing and crookedly rebranched; wood moderately hard, maple} 
white, odorless and tasteless: bark smooth, brown or gray- 
igh on the branches; lesves horizontelly spreading, thinly 
corieceous, upon green ascending petioles, flat with recurved 
tips, shining green above, eclaucescent beneath; fruits hang- 
ing, at moat 6 inches long, chiefly upon leafless branchlets 
but also from below the leafy twige; seeds and wings yellow- 
ish green, “Tio;" Todays, August, 1909, 

