9833, Angiopteris angustifolia Presi, Trunk 1 to 2 
feet thick, about as long; serial roots black, wiry, the 
size of an ordinary lead pencil; fronds spreading, recurved 
Ba 80 the tips touch the ground, 3 to 6 matemm.iong, 1 to 
2 mekexn.wide acrose the middle; stipes yellowish green, 
with sperse trichomes, 1 to 3 metketa.long, much thickened 
at the base and subtended by a pair of very thick brown 
scales or bracts; pinnse odd-pinnate, the terminal ones 
smaller; pinnules heavy, leathery, descending, dull green 
above, yellowish green beneath; "Locdo-bote" - in moist 
woods at 4000 feet; Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
9834, Ficus paloensis Blm,, n. comb, free, 10 
meters high in light woods of dry ridges at 2500 feet; 
stems 1 1/2 feet thick, soon branching into main branches 
ultimate branches few, thick, reclining and with suberect 
tips, often quite long; crown widely unbrella shaped; leaves 
BB strongly conduplicate on the upper surfeee which is lu- 
cid green, subcoriaceous or rather chartsceous, wood white, 
moderately soft, odorless; bark grayish white,’ mottled, 
brown on the br ameches; figs solitary or in pairs from the 
lower leaf axils, pendulous, obovoid, broadly elliptic 
to fusiform, dull lemon yellow when fully mature, (general 
mass of ax fige fusiform, as long as 1 1/2 inches, but 
the shorter ones obovoid), in the elongated ones equally 
tapering to both ends, umbilicus cenieal; the short thick 
peduncle green, Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9835, Davallia embolostegia Copel, Upon rotten 
logs oF more habitusl upon deep moss covered basal portion 
of lerge trees at 4000 feet; rootstocks crooked, quite pliable, 
green but covered with brown scales, sparingly branched, 
very loosely attached to its support; stipes herd, terete, 
green to brownish, tough and yet rigid; about 1 foot to 
1 meter.iong; fronds triangularly spreading, drooping, soft, 
equally green on both sides, usually longer that the stipes; 
"Locde-bogtofig.” Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
: 9656, Kusa coccinea, "Santa Clara", inflorescence 
terminal, strict, obevoid in outline, at least 1 foot long, 
6 inches across near the top, upon a round 1 inch thick 
peduncle about 1/2 foot in length; lower bracts bright 
scarlet red, frequently foliaceouwus tipped, 211 strongly 
involute, the truncate apex yellow but turning greeniah 
with age; receptacle yellowish; buds and young bracts 
quite rigid; flowers 2 in each bract, odorless, nearly 2 
inches long; the lower perianth bract orange red or yellow, 
strongly enelosing the other floral parts, margin above 
the middle green; lower bract mm or perianth segment, also 
involute, of the same color but with hyaline margins 
throughout; stamens 5, yellowish, the linear anthers, deeper 
yellow, the filaments flattened; slender style similarly 
colored; the 3 clavate stigmas saglutinosed by a very sticky 
substance, darker br own} or yellow, than the style; cream 
colored pollen numerous, smealy; young fruits triangular, 
2 to 3 inches long, pale reddish; Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9837. Calpphyllum hibberdii Slm,, n. sp. Tree, 
10 memeee high, in forested ridge at 3500 feet; stem 1 1/2 
foot thick; branches rather crocked, comparatively short 
and forming dense bushes; twigs green, easily bresking; 
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