9869, Athyrium Blumei (naeienn. } Copel. Large 
tufts, in dry soil of more or less open ravines or slopes 
of the River at 1780 feet; fronds from 1 to 3 
meters long, spteading and much freourved; pinnae subsea- 
rious; Dumaguete, April, 1906, 
9870, Acroporus stipellatus (Wall.) Moore, 
Small tufts from short erect rootstocks of humus covered 
soil of damp woods at 4250 feet; stipes erect, green, not 
brittle; fronds nearly flat and horizontally spresding; 
pinnae soft in texture, also flat, equally green on both 
sides; Damaguete, April, 1908, 
9871, Ardisia elmeri mez. shrub, 3 to 5 nedeemet. 
high, in demp woods at 4250 feet; branches few, the ule 
timate ones divaricate; wood whitish and soft; bark 
smoothish and gray; coriseeous leaves flat or only slight. 
ly recurved, dull green above, but paler beneath; green- 
ish panicles terminal; flowers odorless, rather rigid 
and pendulous; corolla pinkish to whitish, deciduous, 
anthers orange red or deep yellow; style and ovary the 
game color as the corella; gtfeenish eelyx tightly closing 
after enthesis; Dumaguete, April, 1906, 
9872, Hypnodendron reinwardtii (uoxsen, ) Broth, 
Upon shrubs of damp woods at 4250 feet; the individual 
small clusters forming more or less scattering masses; 
bases of the shining brown stems dengely clothed with 
soft brown hairs; folisge delicate, light green, turning 
yellowish when old; capsule stalk elender, of the same 
color as the stem; Dumaguete, April, 1906, 
9873. Symploces fragrane Slm,, m, sp, Strict . 
trees, 5 to 7 mete@a,high, in woods at 4250 feet; wood 
soft, whitieh, odorless; bark amooth, mottled, green 
benesth the epidermis; branches very numerous, lax, brown; 
leaves equally dull green on both sides, recurved, sub- 
chertaceous; inflorescent stalks ascending, green, ls0 
lax; calyx greenish; bude and flowers white, very sweet- 
iy fragrant; Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9874,  Dicksonia Blumei (Kze,) Moore, in humid 
woods at 4500 feet; stems rather shaggy in sppeasrance 
especially towards the top, 3 to 5 medemeshigh, 6 to & 
inches thick; stipes recurved, 2 inches thick at the 
base densely clothed with reddish brown bristle life 
trichomes, about 2 meseme.ilong; fronds 2 mm to 3 medeee, 
long, spreading and recurved; pinnae heavy, shining 
dark green above, much paler beneath, the basal ones only 
slightly reduced, rather numerous and much reduced to- 
wards the apex, the bassl pinnae of the fronds or the 
basal pinnules of the pinnae spore bearing; Dumaguete, 
April, 1908, 
9875,  Trichocoléa pluma ion’, Dense loose mats 
in the foggy region at 4750 feet, upon.tree trunks near 
the ground and upon looping stems of Prycinetin; foliage 
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