side/ covered with long neerly black seales, the whole providei 
with vlaeckish spines; frond 3 to 5 feet long or as long ae 
the tipe, recurved; pinnee largest at the base, half aroope 
ing, pinnules thinly coriaceous, dark green above, slightly 
paler baneath, heary much recurved; Todays, Auguet, 1909, 
oe glia ; 
11515. Atyrium ecostulisorum Copel. n. sp. Small 
tufts with 3 to’'5 stalks, upon ledges above the Gati oreek 
falle@ at 5750 feet of mount Apo; stipe 4 feet lond, henging, 
quite rigid, green, smooth, subterete, brown spotted along 
the lower side especially toward the base, at the base smooth 
and bleek, with pale white soft exerescences along the edges; 
frond strongly recurved and drooping, as long as the stipe; 
pinnae strongly drooping; pinnules eaubmembranous, deep 
green above, lighter beneath, the segments descending; sori 
derk brown or nearly black; ““otong-ta-rio;" Todays, August, 
11516.  Dennsteedtia seandens (81) Moore. A sproewling 
climber over thickets of sand and stony soil alone the Cati 
ereek above ite falle at 5750 feet of mount Apo; stipe 1/2 
inch thick, hard, flattish and grooved slong the upper 
yellowish green surface, rigid, spinulose; pinnae 2 to 3 
feet apart, 53 to 5 feet long, reourved and half érooping 
or spreading over rocks and thickete; green rachis more or 
less spinulose ite full lenth; pinnulee light pleasing | 
green on both sides, flat, membranous; spore besring on the 
upper or terminal pinnae; “Sagpang."  “odaya, August, 1909. 
11517, Nymenephyllum formosum Brack, Climbing 
along the stem of tree-ferns in damp woods slong the Cati 
ereek at 5750 feet of mount Apo; rootstock slender, branched, 
brown, easily breaking; stipe brown with green decurrent 
wings, ascending or divaricate; fronds gracefully recurved, 
the flat pinnules delicate and transparent, similarly green 
on both sidea, the midvein lighter green; "Sogalob;" 
Tedaya, August, 1909, 
11518. Rhedobryum ¢iganteum (Hook.) Broth. Upon 
the upper surfaces of moist bowldere etrewn in wet earth of 
dense woode slong the Cati creek at 57506 feet of mount Apo; 
stems branched, terete, brown, the wrect portion covered 
with greenish brown. braets; leaflets thin, membranoue, 
similarly pale green on both sides, flet and rotately epread.e 
ing: setse smooth, 3 to & clustered, brown; aapeule divariscate. 
ly reeurved, shining terete yellowish or rreenish brown ; 
"Lomot.”  Toedaya, August, 1909, 
1151.9. Sehefflera catensis Pim. n. sp. A subseendent 
epiphytic shrub 15 feet high or lone, in dense moist woods 
near the Cati creek at 6000 fest of mout Apo; the 6 inches 
_ thick stem branched from near the bese, the ultimate ones 
rather slender; wood soft, sreenich, covered with emooth 
yellowish bark, with the usual’ arsliaceous odor; petioles 
ascending, dark green, grooved along the upper side; Lesf. 
lets ascending, recurved toward the tip, *lat or shallowly 

