9506. Paychot ria mic rophylla Blm., mn. ep. A branched 
@limber in the moss rainy region at 4500 feet in the Priyeine. 
tia jungles: leaves mostly scattered toward the ends of the 
branchlets, very coriaceous, shining dark green above, olive 
gteen beneath, erect, with strongly recurved tips: inflores- 
cence yellowish; or greenish yellow; wood tough; bark smooth, 
brown; "Colinos, * Dumaguete, Mamwh, 1908, 
9506, Pteris ensifomis Bum, Tufts in rich rather 
loose soil of bamboo flats; pinnae equally green on both 
sides, rather soft and gracefully recurved, flat; stipes green, 
smooth, easily breaking; eterile leaflets comparatively few, 
shorter and with brmader pinnse; "Lucdo", magamai, * Duma 
guete, March, 1908. 
9507. Ficus quemifelis humilis (Roxb.) King, © Small 
trees, 5 meters high, with moderately soft wood and grayish 
bark, branches slender; leaves seabrous, used for scouring 
purpeses by the matives; fies in loose ¢lusters of the leaf 
axiig, light yellow or rather greenish yellow but tu ming 
reddish when mature; *Pili*; Dumaguete, Mawh, 1908, 
9509, Amomum fusifo me Aidl, Seattering, forming 
loose irieguisr patches in dasp undergrowth at 3500 feet; 
stems 2 to 3 meters high, terete, smooth, green but conspi- 
Suously mottled or spotted with numerous minute grayish white 
spots, 1/2 inch thick near the base, bulbose at the base and 
connected with other stem bases by rigid ho rizontsl reotstocks; 
leaflets glaucous, green beneath, ascending, flat, alte mating. 
iy 5 te 5 inches apart, much narrower toword the apex, the 
bagal ones 2 to 3 feet from the base of the stem and much sx 
WKkSeNeX smaller; infrutescence 1 to 2 feet long, arising from 
the sides of the connecting rootetocks, reddish, flexible and 
lying under the dead foliage and barely above ground; flowers 
delicate, ascending and sube rect, 1 or 2 from each bract; the 
lower Calyx segment spread out in front of the flower, the 
upper or lateral 2 segments stYngly reflexed and bent back, 
all of the same yellowish white color; the 2 lateral or upper 
Corolla segments strongly reflexed over the calyx segments, xx 
pink but with a pale white line through the middle toward 
the base; the lower corolla segment rigid, Suberect, pinkish 
especially at the tiv, bearing the anther sace and enc losing 
the veddish style and stigma; capsule obseu rely triangular, 
¥Yugose, ‘eddish, 1/2 ineh thick, 2 inehes long, with numerous 
seeds, tough and watery before matu mw; “Satagbak"; the natives 
eat the seeds also the wild hogs, Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9510. Christisonia wightii #lm., n. sp. A @ucculent 
terrestial saprophyte growing with the scattered patches of 
Ginge roeraceae number 9509; the clumps seem to lie loose in 
the fertile seil beneath the humus covering and no connection 
was found with other living plants; flowers #hite, tubular, 
2 inches long, 1/2 inch thick, the corolla segments 1 inch 
ac ross, protruding above the lesves on the ground, curved, 
the throat always opening or tulned down hill, fleshy, the 
whole of the inside slightly whiter except = yellow streak . 

