1144¢, Ilex apoensis Tlm. By ep.  Suberect tree on 
a wooded ridge at 7000 feet of mout Apo; stem 25 or more feet 
high, 2 feet thick, branched from below the middle; bark 
yellowish erey, provided with coarse lenticells; wood rather 
soft, delicately white, without odor or taste; branches 
widely epreading, ultimately numerously rebranched and form- 
ing dense bushes; leaves sraduslly secendingly recurved, 
coriaceous, dark green above, much paler beneath: stalke 
of the inflorescence greenish white, ascending, the petals 
pure white, ovary yellow, snthers brownish; flowere odorless; 
Pegatepat;"  Todaya, August, 1909, 
11450, Alyxia monilifers _Vid, & t®ee climber on a 
wooded ridge at 7000 feet of mous Apo; stem terete, 3 inches 
thick, with soft whitish tasteless but slightly nauseating 
wood covered with thick brown sesreely checked bark; containe 
ing an sbundance of latex; branches numerous at the top, 
forming dense interlaced masses, the free ends half droop. 
ing; leaves horizontally recurved, corisceous, rich green 
above, yellowish green beneath; verticillate; stalke of the 
infrutet®ence dark green; the beaded fruits green, yellow- 
igh, end when mature dull or dark purplieh, and slightly 
eweet to taste; “Pararan;” . Todays, August, 1909. 
121461. Oleandre Vhitmeei faker, Upon the lower or 
sneltered side of lerge tree trunks seversl feet from the 
ground, in woods along ® ridge at 7000 feet of mount Apo; 
rootstocke fregile, branched sand interisced, creeping, 
dull brown, densely covered with long soft brown hairs; 
atipes descending, ereen slong the upper side, shining 
brown Along the lower; fronds hanging, nestly similar pale 
@reen on both sides, soft and membranous, the edzes more or 
lesa wavy; rachis brown beneath, rigid: "Sarauvay;" 
Todays, August, 1909, 
11452, Dieksonia Blumei (Kze.) Moore, Tree W to 
15 feet high in wooded ridges at 7000 feet of mout Apo; 
stem G6 inches thick, sonewhat thickened toward the top 
by the persistent petlole bares; fronds several, horizon- 
tally spreading, recurved toward the tip, 7 or more feat 
Long; etipe < feet long, subterete, 1 inch thick, tes 
densely covered with rather etinging brietle-like dark 
brown hairs; pinnae Ex alternating, largest in the middle; 
pinules heavy, descending, lucid dark green above paler 
beneath, thinly coriateous, the lower half of the lower 
in Se fertile; "Noteng"; quite common; Todays, August, 
1909, 
11453. Polypodium museoides Copel n. sp. Small 
tuftlets upon «a moses covered medium sized tree trunk next 
to the ground and forming dense soft patches in woode at 
7000 feet of mount Apo, fronds descending, soft membranous, 
pleasing green sbove, somewhat paler beneath; seamente 
only slightly descending; roots fibrous; stipes thresdlike; 
brownish at the base; old fronds dry and persistent: 
"Sigbut."*  Todaya, August, 1909. 

