sp reading from the ends of the twigs, dull green sbove, 
subglaucous green beneath; inflorescendee e wet, light 
or yellowish green, fmm the base of the annual (7) 
growth of foliege; flowem dediduous, emet or 
subere¢t; pe rienth and ovary yellowish green; filaments 
dark green; anthers light yellow; glands or scales 
anongst the bases of the filaments deep yellow; stigmas 
whitish; "“Male-tambie"; Dumaguete, Marmh, 1908, 
9633, Hydrangea lobbii Zaxim, Blm., n, 9p. Lax, 
spreading shrub, 5 to 5 metas high, in woods along 4 
wind swept ridge at 3500 feet; wood dull white, soft, 
with a lame pith; bark on the old stems near the ground 
Gomparatively thick and coarsely checked longitudinal ly; 
that on the branches smooth and yellowish; twigs slender, 
sube rect; leaves subco daceous,nearly flat, radially 
spreading, @e paler beneath; infle mscence erect, ter 
winal, with a faint not zm unplessant odor; flowers 
gxXmenin green in the early state of anthesis, but soon 
tuming whitish, the outer ones of the inflo mscence 
with apmyz conspicuously white unequal petsloides or 
petals; stems guite numerous fom the ground and fo ming 
late clumps, irmgularly branched ftom near the bases; 
"Buyon-buyon-napate, * Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9636. \Lindsaya decomposits Willd. Small tufte 
upon very wet soil of steep wooded ravines at 3500 feet, 
the tndividual tufts feming more or less spresding 
patches; skxff etipes shining emooth, and brown wun 
‘when old; fronds gracefully recurved; pinnse thin, soft, 
lucid darker green above; Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9636, Podochilus neg rosianus Amés, n. Sp, Small 
tufts upon living tees near the ground at 3600 feet; 
stems te vete, hand, green, rigid, descending; (that 
portion of the leaves slightly flattened); leaves flat, 
ascending, only the tips slightly recurved, thin, paler 
geen beneath; inflo macence from the leaf axile, strict; 
bracts green , & light g@teen, flowers caducous, at 
right angles te the axis, white; Dumaguete, April, 
1998, 
9637, Adelme ria bifida idl, Small tufts, in 
rieh humus cove red soil of dense woods at 3500 feet; 
stems 3/4 inch thick, x4 1 1/2 metewh high, reclining; 
leaves scattered, alte mate, flat or only the tips ree 
curved, submembranous, dull green above, much paler be- 
neath, more scattering and much reduced towawd the base; 
young inf mtescence sullfe rect, te minal, hari, globose, 
2 to 3 inches in diameter; the pale flesh colored brasts 
and calyces still persistent; frit 1/2 inch long or 
less, obovoidly flattened or triangular, green, smooth, 
rugose toward the emorginate or sunken apex; seeds nu- 
merous, falsely divided into 3 masses; Duniaguete, 

