11443, Hymenolepie spicata (L. f.) Presi. Small 
tufts upon mose covered limbe of treea on a wooded ridge 
at 6759 feet of mount Apo; reotetocks short, creeping, 
sparingly branched, clauceseent and provided with seales; 
stipe ascending, subterete, brarn; fronde divaricately 
descending, corisceous, the tips drooping, deep green above 
and more or leas shining, paler beneath, margins wavy; veins 
Gull purple, much plainer on the upper side; the liner tips 
spore besring beneath; "Colili"; = finer plant than 11432 
ang with plain purplish veins. Tedaya, August, 1909, 
11444, Hymenolepis pleatyrhynchos Kk @lauea Cope. n, 
var, Tufts upon moes covered limbs of ‘trees on a dry 
wooded ridge at 6750 feet of mount Apo; rootstocks short, 
¢reeping, sparingly branched, glaucous green and covered 
with dull brown seales; stipes aseendince, subterete, rigid, 
brown at the base, also @iaucous; fronds mostly dese ending 
horizontal or even ascending, the apical portion usually 
aacendingly curved, flat, wargins wavy, glaucous green on 
both sides, rigidly corinceous, the tips constricted and 
spore bearing beneath; "Maraway;" Todaya, August, 1909, 
121446, Rapanes venosue Elm. n. sp. Gnarly tree 18 
feet high with «10 inch thiek stem in wooded borders of 
low half swampy places st 6750 feet of mount Apo; bark 
brown lenticelIed, reddish beneath the epidermis, easily 
separating; wood hard and brittle, odorless and tasteless, 
sappy white; main branches ascending from below the middle, 
ultimately numerously branched; gray; twigs ascending; 
lesves ascendingly recurved, coriaceous, lucid dark green 
above, much lighter green beneath; pedicels yellorish ereeny} 
perianth (7) reddish; anthers (4) creamy white; Todays, 
Auguet, 1909, 
11447, Rapanes fastigiata Tim. n. sp. Yree 20 feet 
high with a 10 inch thiek stem in damp wooded ravines at 
6750 feet of mount Apo; branches many, from the middle, 
ascending, the ultimate ones numerous and lax; weod moderately 
hard, reddish, without eder or taste: bark @ray, roughened 
with coarse lenticells: twigs erect, gray end smooth; 
lesvee ascending with recurved tips, smooth and coriaceous, 
shining dark green above, paler beneath; flowers odorless, 
with greenish pedicelle; the 6 perianth segments pinkiah 
white, the anthere creamy yellow or white; “Tangog;" 
Todays, August, 1909, 
11448, Clethra lusonica Merr, Tree 25 feet high 
with an 8 inch thick stem, in moist wooded ravines at 6750 
feet of mount Apo; wooed moderately soft, reddish, odorless 
and tasteless; bark light brown, peeling in thin plates; 
branches sbove the middle, epreading and erookedly rebranched; 
twigs erect, cinnamon brown; leaves rigidly coriaceous, 
ageending, flat or recurved toward the apex, mergine curved 
upon the lower much lighter green eurface, lucid above: 
inflorescence ascending, heavy yellowish green, covered 
with brown hairs: flowers sweetly fragrant; petals oreany 
white, also the style and filaments; anthers light yellow, 
etigma greenish: flowers subpendulous; "Cayatbuntod;" 
Todaya, August, 1909, 
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