heavy, gracefully recurved, 6 to 10 feat long; stipe only the 
bagal one fourth and densely covered with maroon colored 
trichomes with densely persist about the oval sears beneath 
the foliage; "Lucdo,” Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
: 9458, Atisaema polyphylla (lco,) verr, Soft succu. 
Lent herbs in deep humus covered soil of damp woods at 4000 
feet, usually single from 4 camb Like root; stems ioxcm terete, 
watery and soft in texture, beautifully mottled or grained 
with brown; leaflets thin, much peler beneath, easily wilting; 
flower two thirds way up the stem, upon a 3 to 5 inch long 
erect stalk; spadix sheath brownish streaked except the green 
strongly recurved foliaceous tip; seeds of. the spike upon the 
bagal one third, the upper portion spinescent except towards 
the apex; fruit 3 inches long, curved, 1 inoh thick, the 
berries scarlet red when mature. Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
“ 
9459, Gyatheat ripinnata Copel. An associate with 
number 9457 at 4000 feet in moiet woods, but much less common; 
ite trunk in thicker and the fronde are larger than of spe. 
Gies 9457; young fronds and oblong sears beneath the foliage 
densely provided with light ashy gray trichomes; stipe 2 to i 
S feet long, especially spinese ent on the upper side, but: upom the © 
rachis proper the epines are more prominent on the under side; 
leaves heavy, reourved, the basal pinnae os in nuwaber 9457 
are very much reduced; "Luedo, ” Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
946u, Ficus guyeri Glu, free like shrub 5 weters high, 
din noist'well shaded woods at 4000 fect on trail between 
and ; bark smoothish, mottled; wood whit- 
ish, with a faint pleasant sagny sappy odor; branchlets lax, 
very Qumerous, half drooping; fige in the leaf axils only, 
pendulous, when young roughened with minute lenticels, when 
mature smooth soft end reddish, lees than 1/2 inch in dieme- 
ter; peduncle proper only 1/2 the length of the stalk which 
ie provided with an sbundence of gummy latex; "Pili." Dae 
maguete, ~arch, 1908, 
9461, Nephrolepia barbata Copel. Loose but very 
wiry and rather small tufts attached to the trunks of trees 
near the ground at 4000 feet in very humid gulehes; fronds 
recurved, the raghis ss well ag the slender roots brown and 
breaking with a snap; pinnae rather thin; Dumaguete, March, 
1908, 
9462,  Litisfochora elmeri Sgd. nov. gem, et nm. sp. 
On the under side of the leaves of Ficus F. gyyeri @lm. 
number 9460, in molest woode at 4000 feet; the clusters are 
of a dark maroon color, flat and subangular, with a yellowish 
zane immediately about them, not at 211 seen from the upper 
side; the foliage is more commonly infested along the margins 
_ first; *Talumtum,” Dumaguete, arch, 1908, 

