9694, Balantium Cepelandi Christ. in damp woods 
at 3500 fest; erect 1 to 2 feet long and 6 inches thick 
reotstock giving rise to a spreading whorl of fronds;><> © 
stipes 1 to @ meter. long, 1 inch thick at the base, dense. 
ly clothed with soft dark cinnamon brown hairs especially 
near the base; lower pair or subopposite pinnae the largest, 
gracefully drooping, 1 1/2 wide by 3 feet long; frend pro- 
pe per about 2 to 3 metets. long, its tip occasionally 
touching the ground; yellowish green beneath; "“Loedo, * 
Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
9695, .Blechnum insigne Copel. HKootstocks sub- 
erect, & inehes thick and 1 to 2 feet high, in damp fer- 
tile soil of the woods at 3500 feet; fronds heavy, ¢co- 
riaceous, forming 2 rosette like recurved tuft or crown, 
dark green above, quite a little-psler benesth; the stipe 
green, clothed at the base with long brownish black 
trichomes; rachis smooth, vwrittle, also green; pinnae 
am numerous, usually overlapping at the base; sporophylls 
terminal and suberect, heavy and very fragile, the basal 
pinnee folisceous toward the base; “Locdo." - Young fo- 
liage characteristically entirely dull red; Dumaguete, 
April, 1908, 
: 9696, Procris psaeudostrigosa 81m, Sueculent oreep- 
ing shrub upon moist well shaded woods at 3500 feet; bark 
smooth, yellowish green; the heavy hunthenr ise twigs sub- 
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ascending; leaves limp, more or Lees succulent, flat, 
davk green above, mutch paler beneath; petiole fleshy, 
green; inflorescence a denee greenigh flattened head, 
from the leaf axil, on the lower side of the etem and 
leaf petiole; “Handulumogena-cehoy."  #Dumaguete, April, 
1908, 
9697, Picus confuse “lm, Reelining shrub, on 
edges of precipitous biuffe along the River ; 
wood whitish rather tough and hard; bark smooth, mottled; 
the ultimate branches quite numerous, slender, mm kakt 
lax half drooping, with yellowish bark; les¥es chartaceous, 
flat, paler green beneath, descending, the veine greenish 
white; figs solitary er in pairs, emooth, globose, from 
the leaf axild@ mainly, lemon yellow, the exposed fully 
mature ones of a glazed plessing red; “Pili-na-balagon, ”" 
Dumagueté, April, 1908, 
9698, Gpitheme benthami Clarke, Brect herbs, 
from damp moss covered sides of bowlders in hemp gulches 
along the River at £600 feet; stems green, suc~ 
Culent; leaves submembranous, exceedingly vorisble in 
size, deep green above, much paler beneath,flsat; peduncle 
erect, bearing a terminal green circinately disposed or 
gsubsecund c¢iuster of flowers; bracts and calyx green 
as the foliage; Llowers deciduous, ax azure blue especial- 
ly toward the apex; stamens yellowish white; pistil green- 
ish; “iansau.” Dumeguete, April, 1908. 

