nearly prostrate, spreading, from 1 to 2 netens.long, 
smooth, soft, terete, green; leaves alternatingly scat. 
tered, soft, membranous, flat, much gk paler green beneath; 
old infrutescence fiery red, 3 inches long by 1/2 as thick, 
erect; its rigid 6 inches long uy peduncle terete, curvy. 
ingly diverging from the small bulbose base of the stem; 
Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9644, SYechtitis petiolata Benth. Herbaceous, in 
- damp soil of herbaceous thickets on steep slopes st 4250 
feet; stems succulent, yellowish green; eoft leaves flat, 
s00n wilting, paler beneath; involuere green; corollas 
light creamy yellow; soft pappus of s delicate pink except 
towarde the base which is whitish; achenes brown; Duma- 
guete, April, 1908, 
9845, Dryopteris todayensis Christ, Small erect 
tufts of fertile damp soil of dense herwaceous thickets 
at 4500 feet; rootstocks emmit, 6 to 12 inches high, 3 
inches thick, giving rise to several fronds; atipes 1 m. 
WEtSE long, green, rather soft, duberect; fronds at least 
as long, much Kemuxmk recurved, the pinnae reduced as fo- 
lisceoue scales along the stipe; pinnae divaricate, hori- 
zontal except the recurved tips, flat and rather soft in 
texture; Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9846, Hydrangea glandulosa Hlm., n. sp. A lofty 
tree Climber, covering the uppermost branches and hanging 
in large tangled masses from the larger branches; old 
stem 1 1/2 inches thick; the branches quite rigid, charac- 
teristically curved and ereoked, thereby forwing rather 
Gense tangled messes; wood moderately hard whitish with 
& Cinnamon brown pith, tough; old bark br dwn, pealing in 
thin s¢ales; leaves lucid, very rigid, dark green above, 
paler benesth; inflorescence terminal but usually upon 
subterminal ascending twigs, yellowish, the main branches 
ascendingly umvellate, the ends developed into a light 
creamy white perianth; flowers fragrant. Dumaguete, 
April, 1906, 2 
9847, Polypodium subfaleatum B31, Delicate small 
tufted ferns, upon moss covered tree trunks at 4000 feet; 
fronds very soft in texture, subpendulous; pinnae fiat; 
exceedingly rare! Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
9849, Folystictus meleagris (Berk.) Cooke. Qn 
dead timbers lying upon damp earth in herbaceous thickets 
at 4250 feet; rather dry and pliable, pale chalky white 
beneath, sbeve lead gray with conspicuous darker brown 
demarcations; Dumaguete, April, 1908. 
9850,  Hymenochsete tenuissima Berk. On dry wood 
of dead logs of pem open places at 4250 feet; very thin 
and dry, deep chocolate brown above, much lighter brown. 
or nearly ga ashy gray beneath; Dumaguete, April, 1908. 

