green; pistillate heade oblong to oboveid, upon green 
terete 3 to 5 inches long erect or ascending exillery 
peduncle; young fruits bleek, ebovoid; young heade sur- 
rounded by 6 inche# long yellowieh green amooth deciduous 
brects, sreenish, turning brown, and the 4 inch long by 
% inches toms xekkerkel exten Sno thick nearly meture 
heads coal black; “Togop." Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
9796, Syneruoma aliemaefolie (Presl.) J. Sm. 
Small rather rigid tufts of rich humus severed soil of 
woods at 4000 feet; rootstock short wery etiff; roots 
soft, covered with brown hair®; stipes usually curved st 
the base, strict, shining black, rigid, put not fragile; 
fronds ascending, flat, corisedous, dark green above, 
lighter beneath; the sporophylis mearly of the same sise, 
upon Longer more strict stipes which rise from the apical 
center of the rootstocks; “Locdo~bay. ” Dumaguete, April, 
19086, 
9797, Pelypodium @ pido-squamatum 51. Upon tree 
trunks of open woods at 4000 feet; roeotstocks thickly 
cleaving to its support, sparingly pranched, glaucesc ent 
beneath the dense brown colored trichomes; stipes terete, 
ghining brown or neorly black, not fragile, ueuelly curved 
from the base, descending; rachia, pinnae stalks and main 
nerve of the oinnae shining black at least beneath; pin- 
nae descending, rigid, dk green ebove, lighter green 
beneath, very amooth on both sides, the margins strongly 
recurved ujon the ventral side and with whitish spots 
alone the doreal Line; "TLoedo~naeguindin." Dumaguete, 
April, 1906. 
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y796. Polypodum revolutum ¢, Chr, (PF, productum 
Christ). Rather tufted upon tree trunks of woods at 4000 
feet; rootstock short, ereeping or climbing, apar ingly 
branched, tightly cleaving to ites support, tigid, naked; 
fronds heavy thick, quite plisble, dreoving, edices blunte 
ly involute, of A peculiar glaucous green on both sides, 
the upper margin, with etich Like exerese ence caused by 
the deeply seated sori pockets; Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
9799. Blatostems longifolium Wedd. Smell tufte . 
ef three stems from the same root in husus covered cc. >. 
soil of woods st 4000 feet; stems terete, slightly ridged, 
browrl of dull purplish, red toward the base, auberect; 
leaves limp paler green beneath, flat, ascending and ho- 
Yizontally spreading, suceulent; inflorescence on the 
upper side of the recurved stem and in the leaf axils, 
dense, greenish white, velvety oF spongy, @pon irregularly 
shaped perfectiy flat disks; "‘Kandalumog.” Dumaguete, 
April, 1908. 
9800. Payohotria diffues cervinus Bim, mn, var, 
Seandent and forming dense tengled bushes upon trees of 
ridges at 4000 feet; main stem 1 1/2 inch thick, hard, 
covered with smooth grayteh white mottled bark, the bark 

