9773, indsaya pulehelia (J. Sm.) Mett. Creeping — 
on emall tree trunks «a few meters from the soil, in damp 
woods at 4000 feet; threadlike rootstocks shining maroon 
brown, tightly cleaving to its suppert, quite brittle, slen- 
der and only sparingly branched; stipes equally colored, 
rachis green; fronds occasionally branched, gracefully re- 
curved; pinnae slightly paler beneath; "Bananat.*  Duma- 
guete, April, 1908, 
9774, Davallia Yagneriana Copel, Climbing upon 
trees at 4060 feet; yellowish brown rootstocks terete, 
spsringly branched, slender, tough, rather loosely attached x 
-@@.to their host; stipes green, at right mgle to the 
tree trunks but recurved tewards the distal ends; fronds 
' Feeurved, heavy, gubcorisceous, much lighter green beneath; 
*"Locdo- ‘ Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9776, Blatostema spinulosum Blm., mn. ap. Patehes 
in moist humus covered g0i1 of woods at 4000 feet; stems. 
angular, dark green, watery, ridged from the base, reclin- 
ing and 1 inch thick nesr the base, ultimately suberect 
and from 1 to 2 feet high, unbrenched; leaves as well as 
the stem spiny on the lower surface, characteristically 
papiliose on the upper side, horizontally sprawling, dork 
green above, paler beneath, the conspicuous vein grooves 
on the upper side, very deep derk green; the lower leaves 
a trifle smaller; inflorescence erect from th’e upper leaf 
axils, quite solid; involuere yellowish green; staminate | 
flowers bureting with a force; *‘iandolumog.“ Dumaguete, 
April, 1906, - 
9777, Platea latifolia blm, frees, 15. makers high, 
in damp woods at 4000 feet; bark brown and thick, mottled 
on the branches, yellow beneath the epidermis; wood easily 
Gutting, pale white, odorless; bramches lax, fuse forming 
a Yather round topped crown; the half & leathery leaves 
conduplicate on the upper surface, light giaucous or half 
gilvery white beneath, dark green above, with recurved 
tips; stalks of inflorescence brownieh; buds light green; 
flowers also green, very early falling, 211 odorless and 
quite heavy; "Guisok," Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
9778, Rhododendron nortoni Merr. A much branched 
scandent shrub, upon moss covered inclined tree trunke st 
4000 feet; ultimate brenches mather slender, half drooping; 
leaves thickly corisceous, dark green on the upper side, 
punctate chocolate brown beneath; young infrutescence 
gimiler in color, suberect; Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9779, Rotthoellia exaltata Linn. Chiefly small 
tufts, with one to several stems from the ground; roots 
rigid, terete, the subaerial ones serving a6 prop reots; 
gteme strict from the base, variable in height, from 2 
to 5 feet long, somewhat reclined toward the top, sheathed; 
the basel sheath setosely hairy especially when dry; the 
scabrid terete peduncle subdivaricate; spines green, hard, 

