radially and ascending petioles, subcoriaceous, dark green 
above, much paler beneath, diverse in size, slightly condu- 
plicate on the upper side; fruits hanging upon 5 inches long 
3/4 inch thick petioles from the leaf axil (ueuelly only 1 
fruit to a branch) ellipsoid, the apex ee well as the base 
with a flat nipple like joint, 9 inches long by 7 inches 
actress the diameter; exocarp fully 1/2 or 3/4 inéh thick, 
the outside the color and appearance of the outside of « 
mature cocoanut meat; seeds about 27 to each nut, imbedded 
in a white pulpy meat which the natives eat when mature; 
seed triangularly ovoid, hard, strongly nerved on the out- 
gide, watery white meat within which the natives claim is 
poisonous (when put in water the fish and carabao using it 
die;the pointed end of the nut is directed toward the center; 
"Pangui." Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9617, ‘Selaginella engleri Hieron, Th» rankest 
Selaginelliea i ever saw, in bamboo thickets near the south 
fork of the Raver; stems strict from the soil, 1 
to 2 or even 3 high, very hard and brittle as glass, 
brown, smooth, the larger ones 3/4 inch thick; widely branched 
BB above the middle; sesles of the stem and of the similar- 
ly colored branches green, erect and oppressed to the surface; 
foliage soft and membranous, light green, spreading; the 
inflerescence lighter or yellowish green; "Facofig-punko;"* 
Dumaguete, Harech, 1908; 
9618, Pothos ovatifolius Gngl. A lofty climber and 
forming tengled appressed masses about the bole of a tall 
-Lauen (a Dipterocarpaceous tree); steme and branches the 
size of a man's finger, subterete, green, of the older ones 
yellowish, quite rigid and wiry, conspicuously ringed every 
5 inches; lesf petioles green, rigid, sheath like, conspi- 
cuously imbricated and making excellent protective homes | 
Wumex for black ante, strict, ascending; leaves coriaceous, 
‘very variable in size, flat, shining dark green, the younger 
ones paler, subdescending; inflorescence erect, 1 to 3 from 
the ends of the branches; peduncle 6 inches long, usually 
curved, green and hard, bearing a single strongly reflexed 
foliaceous bract above the middle; spikes 5 to & inches long, 
1/2 inch thick, terete, green and terete in anthesis, with 
an unpleasant sour dough odor; fruiting spike usually curved, 
lemon yellow; berties only here and there growing to matu- 
rity, ellipsoid, *# 1/2 inch leng, of the seme lemon yellow, 
loosening at the base, with a sweet colorless juice; seeds 
2, @reen, with a striate dull black coat; *"Falaguiwon,”" 
Dumaguete, March, 1908. 
9619, : 
and lexly branched shrub : ound, 2 to 3 meters 
high, in fertile well shaded soil at 2600 feet; branches 
sparingly rebranched, the ultimate ones suber ect; wood of 
the terete 1 inch thick old stems soft watery and with a 
large pith; berk smooth and yellow on the outside, green 
beneath the skin; leaves very smooth on both sides, much 
paler green beneath, radially spreading from the ends 
of the suberect twige, fiat _ 

