9981, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn. Ornamental 3 m. 
seameee nigh shrub; stems many from the base, branched, the 
ultimate ones very slender and half drooping; leaves dull 
green, somewhat paler beneath, exceedingly variable in size, 
descending and strongly recurved, usually conduplicate on 
-the upper side; old bark yellowish gray, that on the twigs 
Yeddish brown; petioles ususily reddish brown; soft scarlet 
red flowers terminal or lateral, odorless, the anthers 
yellow and the calyx green; the slender pedicels also green; 
petals shiny deep red on the upper basal portion, very thin, 
strongly reflexed; Dumaguete, May, 1908, 
9982, Pterospermum obliquum dlco, A 20 nee highy 
tree, on exposed river banks s% 1000 feet; trunk 2 to & 
feet in diameter; wood odorless, moder ately hard, the thin 
sapwood whitish, otherwise reddish; main branches ascending 
from above the middle of the stem, the ultimate branches . 
thin and half drooping; bark gray, secsling in irreguiar 
email more or less brittle sesles; leaves descending, sub- 
coriaceous, shiny deep green above, yellowish white beneath; 
scales of infloreseence whitish on the upper side, green 
on the lower, otherwise the entire inflorescence rusty brown; 
Calyx segments limp, yellowish green, ratner thick; corolla 
pale creamy white, very limp; stamens and pistils of the 
game corolla color; flowers when fresh have a faint "apple” 
odor; Dumaguete, Aprkiky xReGx Kay, 1908. 
9983. SBreynia cernua wuell, Arg, A numerously 
branched shrub sprawling and forming a kind of hedge over 
lerge boulders along the River at 1000 feet; bark 
brown, lenticelled; branchlets slender, half drooping; leaves 
@@ very smooth on both @ides, light green, the under side 
gubglsucous, flat or recurved and shallowly conduplicate 
on the upper surface; flowers minute, green, the corolla 
caduceus; berries green, dull red and purplish black on the 
am same twigs, eoft juicy and sweet when ripe; Dumaguete, 
May, 1906, 
9984, Selaginella lacerata Warb, Solitary but usual- 
ly forming patches in loose gravelly soil of well shaded 
embankments of the River, at 1000 feet; the pur- 
pliish green stem inclined at the base, quite rigid but not 
brittle, provided with foliaceous bracts; fronds soft, strong- 
ly recurved, deep green on the upper side, much paler or 
light green beneath; the solid 4-angled spore tips greenish 
er yellowish white; .Dumaguete, May, 1908, 
9985.  Sdontosoria chinensis (L.) J. Sm. very small 
form. Small tufte upon gravelly soil of very steep auxx 
declivities at 1000 feet along the River near 
the waters edge; stipes green, turning reddish brown espe- 
Cially towards the base; fronds gradually recurved, some- 
what fleshy, light green but paler beneath; Dumaguete, 
May, 1908, 

