throughout, 5 feet long; fronds eatrongly recurved or reclin+e 
ing upon other herve and forming 3 nest cover, 6 to 9 feet 
long or lenger; the lowermost pinse the largest, decompound- 
ly rebranched; 3 to 5 feet long, sbout 2 feet apart, gera- 
duslly closer set and reduced toward the apex; pinnules 
flat, soft membranous, richly green above, slightly paler 
beneath; sori yellow; “Sagpang;" Todays, August, 1909. 
11680, Rubue molueccanus Linn. Seandent and sprawl- 
ing over thickete slong the Cati creek at 6000 feet of mount 
Apo; etem numerously branched, terete, lees than 1/2 ineh 
thiek, quite rigid, covered vith thin yellowish brown bark; 
twige helf drooping, greenish and covered recurved sharp 
rather short spines: leaves horizontal or descending, fiat, 
lueid dark green above, subchartsceous, yellowish brown 
beneath: inflorescence covered with similarly colored 
haire; the calyx strongly reflexed, greenish on the upper 
side; petale, pistil and stamens white except the creamy 
white anthers; “Sapinit"; mature ncheyt ter, bright red; 
Todayn, August, 1909, 
11581.  Helicia philippineneis Yeisen, Small tree | 
16 feet high, slong the Cati ereek at 6000 feet of mout 
Apo; etem 5 inehes thick, branched from below the middle, 
the branches ageending rebranched; leaves numerous on the 
erect or aseending twige, aseending, elightly reeurved, 
folded upon the upper shining deep green side, paler beneath; 
wood moderately hard, reddish, fibrous, without odor or 
taste; bark grayish white, emoothish: rachis of the 6 to 10 
dnches long epike dark brown or nearly black, ascending 
from the leaf axile; pedicels similarly colored; flowers 
odorless, divericate, the circinately recurved segments 
yellowish green, the ovary glands pale yellew, ovary ereen, 
style ond stigma cimilarly greenish; “Tarangisi;" Todays, 
August, 1909. 
11582. Rubus tageallue ¢,. et é, iow shrub, 6 to 
16 inches high, in sandegravelly soil along the Gati creek 
at 6000 feet of mount Apo; stem usually branched from 
near the base, ascending, freely rebranched, shove the 
middle; brenches slightly ageendine or horisonteally epread- 
ing, green, sharply spinescent; spines reddish; leaves 
flat, horizontal or ascending, membranous, shining green 
above, paler green beneath; calyx greenish; petals pure 
white; filaments and pistil (exeept the green ovaries) 
ae anthers creamy white; “Sepinit;" Todsya, August, 
11583. Urtics bullets Bim. Low 3 to & feet high 
shrub in wet sandegravellyy soil amongst bowlders slong 
the Cati ereek at 6000 feet of mount Apo; stems less than 
1/2 ineh thick, several from the base, ascending or spread- 
ing and resting upon other low plants, terete, greenish 
gray, sparingly rebranched, covered 211 along with vestiges 
4 Bry ee ee eee erect or suberect, beeet with ; 
nettles; leaves soft membranous, horisental, flat, darker 7 
green on the upper surface, sappesring saggerencins 
also provided with nettles on both sides; inflorescence i 
laxly spreading, greenish; “Latong:* Todaya, August, 1909, 
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