10039, Melothria heterophylla (Lour,) Cogn, Spr awling 
over moss covered boulders in damp “Abaca” ravines along the 
River at 2500 feet; steme and branches green and 
smooth; leaves flat, membranous, horizontally spreading from 
the gteen ascending petioles; peduncle, calyx and buds green; 
@erolla and stamens light yellow; fruits hard, ellipsoid, 
green but with age becoming yellowish green from the spex 
towards the base, soft, crimson red when mature, its juice 
eweetish; the pale whitish seeds quite numerous; Dumaguete, 
May, 1908, 
: 1004u. Stephania merrillii Diels, A lofty tree 
- glimber in dense woods of ravines at 2750 feet; stems 1/2 
inch thick, pliable, covered with rather smooth brown bark, 
the wood whit@jsh except the blackish centrsl portion; branches 
many forming hanging tengled mosses, green; petiole sl1s0 
green, ascending and strongly recurved from near the bage;. 
blade flat, smooth and dark green above, much lighter green 
beneath, coriaceous; panicles one to 4 few from the same 
pase along the older branches, entirely green except the 
shining somewhat flattened vermillion red fruite which 
contain a solitary compressed and me rugosely surfaced stone; 
Dumaguete, liay, 1908, 
10041, Leptochilus heteroditus (Presl) C. Chr, var, 
Poxworthyi Christ. Dense much interlaced and appressed 
patches upon moss or wet rock surfaces in very damp woods 
near the River at 27650 feet; rootetock green, 
numerously branched, fronds exceedingly yariable in shape 
and size, subcoriaceous, slightly paler green beneath; the 
stipes green and not brittle; sporophylis erect, the upper 
side of the segments deep green, more or less brittle, curved 
upon the dorsal side, the spore bearing muZ surface dark 
brown or nearly black; Dumaguete, May, 1906, 
10042, Pisehidisa merrillii Schitr. Creeping slong 
limbs of lefty trees and occasionally hanging in loose 
Clusters, in deep wooded ravines along the River 
at 275u feet; Dumaguete, Hay, 1908. 
10043, Villebrunea trinervis Yedd, & aprewling 
and straggling shrub or subscandent in habit, along the 
River at 2500 feet; o14 stema 1 inch thick, 
rather numerpusly branched; the branchlets suberect; o14 
bark brown, wood easily breaking; leaves sube or iaceous, 
descending, + trifle paler peneath; spikes brittle aad 
succulent, ascending|gareen except the pale white flovers; 
frait receptacles glitasy white, goft and watery; Dumaguete, 
day, 1906, 

