on the twige enooth and. brown; leaves subcoriaceous, flat 
tat with reourved tips, lucid green above, auch peler be- 
neath, the aldrib beneeth pubesoent; stelke of infleres- 
cones greonish white, very plinble, pubeseent; hude — 3 
deeiduous cerclia yellowish green, ite 6 segments rotately 
spreading; enthers bepely execeding the throat, quite 
deep yellow, Dumaguete, April, 1906, 
9601, Aphanenthe negrosensis Elm. me wp, (flower), 
Erect 6 m, high tree with branches diveriestely spreadi« 
ing shove the middle, on ridges at 4000 feety bark @acoth~ 
igh, mottled; brenches sparse, quite rigid, the ultimate 
ones Jax end slender; {the berk yellowish beneath the 
epidermis especially when exposed); the wood herd and 
heavy, soneentric ringe conspienous, the sap woed whi te, 
te. beart weed brown ma much hearer, odorless ani tasteless; 
leaf sharteceous, descending, lucid dork green above, yellowish 
green beneath, eurvingly aondnplica te on the upper side; 
bude red@ish, from the leef exile sné upen the upper side 
ef the twigs; flowers whitieh or with « reddish tinge, 
oderles®, seseilly arranged on a flattemed rachis; *Calans” 
fomaguete, pril, 1908. 
9602,  Symploees eurtiflore Elms, ns ep. Slender 
twee, 7 tm, high, in lightly weeded ridge at 5760 feet; 
wood oderless and testeless, sappy white throughout, easily 
cutting; bark encothish, sottled, green beneath the epi+ 
dermis, the lmer portion whitish; brenehie tse qhite 
numerous md lex, snooth and brown; leaves eubmembranous, 
equally pele green on beth sides, filet or only slightly 
eonduplisate on the upper side; young fruite wpen 1/2 to 
. & ingh long dork green stelke, the fruits ghemeclves of 
a dighter green color; “Punepun." Dumnguete, April, 1908. 
' 9804, Cyelcpherne Lingus (Thunb) Beats sone. lat. 
On the upper limbs of e lofty tree, in woods at 4000 feet; 
rootetecks wiry, tightly cleaving to the limbs, branched 
ani forming & loose net work; frends thiek, pliable, yel- 
lowish green, yellowish caneseen} beneath, or upon the 
umMier cide, the laterel elies usually twieted end bent over 
the €ergal side; epoerophylle of the wame wise, densely 
eoveread with sporea., Dune. magne te, Aprii, 1906. 
9805, Dendrobium ( § Gastidiun). Fis, badly damaged, 
determination impossible. ‘Probebly new, On lefty tree 
brenghes, et 4000 feet; stens pendnleus, cbseurely flattened, 
in gaell olusters, mite rigid, sostly unbranched, straw 
eoler toward the stem; lenves grass like, equeliy green 
on both eidea, ite etem Glaeping sheatha, brown to nearly 
bleek, slightly twisted and nearly flet; flewers in peire, the 
peduncle exising from the persistent leteral sheath; pedicels 
bifureate, yellowieh with very fine purplish spete; flowers 
Gglicate, odorless, with limp very linear segments, of a deep 
Gream yellow arm threnghout congpieucnsly apctited with purple 
bletehes which are net quite es numerous tewexia the two 
faging spurs; the brush like organ light ¢reemy white; 
~“£99— 

