12613. VYernonis floreseens Slm. nn. SP. Small tree 
30 feet high with a 1 foot thiek stem, i moist humus 
covered soil of woods at 3500 feet of mo ‘ Calelan: wood 
soft, dirty white, without odor or taste: ‘bark yellowish 
gray checked; branches mainly toward the top, forming an 
elongated dense crown; twigs esuberect; leaves norizontalhy 
spreading, chortacéous, dark green and sublucid above, 
much lighter beneath, petioles aseending; inflorescent stalks 
éull green; involucre dark purplish; eorollae whitish toward 
the base, otherwise pink; pistil also pinkish; pappue creamy 
white in the poung state; "“Laway;” Todays, September, 1909. 
11614.  Microlepia strigoss (Thunb.) Presl. Dense 
tufte in dry fertile more or less humus covered, in light 
woods at 3500 feet of mount Calelan; rootstocks kxu horizon- 
tal, short, branched, st least 1/3 ineh thick, rigid, densely 
covered with brown wk hairs; stipes erect, numerous, 1 te 2 
feet long, terete, quite rigid, green except the brown bases; 
fronds strict, toward the apex recurved, longer than the 
stipes; pinnee flat, horizontally arranged, or more ascend. 
ing; the pinnules light on both sides, filet, membranous; 
*“Lagolay;"  Todeaya, September, 1909. 
41614, Polystichum amabile (Eim.) 7. Sm,  Todaya, 
September, 1909. 
(No deseription) 
11614 2. Polystichun ariatotZum (Forst.) Pres. 
Similar to number 11614 and was collected about 2000 feet 
higher upon mount Calelan. Todaya, September, 1909, 
112615. Unearia philippineneis Zim. , Sprawling elimber 
over thickets of » dry open ridge at 3250; stem 1 1/2 ineh 
in diameter, terete, branched especially toward the top; 
park smooth, erayien brown; wood soft, porous, bendable, with 
a large yellow pith, odorless, distinetly bitter; branches 
far reaching, subterete or only obscurely anguler, smooth 
ang brown; twigs yellowish green, slender, drooping, with 
stout recurved yellowieh recurved hooks, leaves horizontally 
curved or nearly flat, submembranous, peler green beneath, 
pedunele divaricatély descending; the young fruite suberect, 
green or on exposed places turning reddish; "Colilo;”* 
Todaya, September, 1909. 
4367. Medinilia bagobo lm. n. 8p. Seandent upon 
medium eized trees in humid forests of moist fertile humus 
covered soil at 3750 feet; stem nearly 2 inches thick, round, 
_ grooked, numerously branched at the top: wood whitish, soft, 
odorless and tasteless; bark thick, yellowish brown, coarse ly. 
ohecked; branches freely rebranched, forming dense tangled 
masses, the twigs green ond ascending; leaves coriaceous, 
aseendingly recurved, conduplicate on the upper dark shining 
surface, much lighter green beneath; inflorescence ®Long 
the branchlets, profuse, the peduncles green, the suberect 
pedicels red the rim of the calyx alee red, corolla pink and 
rotately spreading, filaments whitish; anther bases light 
yellow, otherwise pink; *"Bagobo;" Todaya, September, 1909. 
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