side, yellowish green on the upper, quite soft in texture, 
sparsely but uniformly covered with yellowish gray scales; 
fronds diverse in size, the largest ones equalling the 
length of the atipe, 1 1/2 mga Lone , recurved; pinnae 
soft, light green; "Loo do. Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9943, Surya acuminata Vall, Small erect tree, 7 m. 
hes Nigh, Along the edge of a very deep ravine at 2000 
feet; wood dull or dirty white, brittle, moderately soft, 
its bark smooth and mottled; branches lax, slender, nume- 
rous, leaves slightly descending, submembranous, nearly 
flat, the edges somewhat undulste, dorker green on the 
upper side; fruits green, globose, smooth, normally with 
5 dry stone like seeds; (occasionally wkkk @« the 3 re- 
curved stigmas still persist); “Hindang-magamay"; Duma. 
guete, april, 1906, 
9944, artabo¢rys rolfei Vid. Lofty tree climber 
on exposed ridges at 2000 feet; stems terete, brown, 1 
ineh thick, the bark ultimately very shallowly checked; 
wood soft, porous, with a sweetish juice or taste; branches 
ee’ ereen, forming wiry tangled bushes or masses; the 
leaves shsllowly conduplicste on the upper side, with 
margins wavy, lucid dark green above, duller beneath; ine 
florescence strongly recurved, its main stalk flattened, 
green; ite pedicels very deep or dull purple, becoming 
greenf xk in fruiting stage; thick ealyx dull green; 
corolla segments all similar in size and color, very 
dull pink, soft, fleshy, 211 spreadingly recurved; light 
eream Colored anthers numerous, with very deep purple api- 
@es; ovaries yellowish green; stigmas dirty white, radial- 
ly epreading over the anther tips; flowers odorless; 
fruite herd and deep green; "Sahay-balagon"; Dumaguete, 
April, 1908. 
9945. Lygodium japonicum (Thunb.) Swtz. Seandent 
upon thickets of steep slopes of ravines at 2000 feet; 
stems wiry but not brittle, smooth, yellowish brown; 
leaves spreading, thin, eoft in texture, similarly green 
on both sides; spore bearing fronds heavier, always to- 
wards the top, lighter green beneath; "Nito:* Dumaguete, 
April, 1906. 
9946, Polypodium validum Copel. Kather large 
tufts, tightly set upon recks in densely wooded and thick. 
eted ravines at 2000 feet; fronds recurved or subpendulous, 
leathery, somewhat paler beneath, the sides especially 
slong the margine wavy; stipes rigid, turning br on when 
| Old or exposed; "Kanalo"; Dumaguete, April, 1908, 
9947, OGentosoris retusa (Cav.) J, Sm. Tufts, in 
damp sand gravelly soil of a very steep ravine at 2000 
feet; stipe light green or becoming yellowish when old, 
smooth, watery; fronds exceedingly variable in size, flex- 
ible, spreading or recurved towards the tips, somewhat 
succulent, of a cheracteristic light green above, even 
paler as subglaucescent beneath; "Locdo*; Dumaguete, 

