11048.  Gurenlige recurvate Dry. Perennial hefbe 
$ to & fect high in rich soil of open woods at 1500 feet; 
forming densepatches; petioles green, secendingly ourved, 
deeply grooved on the upper side, the margins toward the 
base becoming dry and marceseent; blade similerly light 
green on both sides, gracefully oscendingly reeurved, 
eonesve on the lower side, strongly eorrugated longi tud+ 
inelly, the larger ones 4 feet long and 8 inches wide 
across the middle, chartaceous; inflorescence issuing 
from the sides of the several lesves, ascending upon ea 
much flattened 2 to 5 inches long peduncle, striet; flowers 
odorless, light yellow throughout, the petels rotately 
spresding, stamens and pistil erect, quite showey; fruits 
fusiform, green, ascendingly curved, upon deflexed pedicels; 
when ripe 3/4 inch long, 1/3 inch thick across the middle, 
yellowish or whitish green especially beneath, the numerous 
bine sceds imbedded in rether soft white pulp; "Talowangit." 
Yodaya, dune, 1909. 
11949. Piper ebbrevietum Opis, Climbing elong 
the gall trec trank in open woods of fertile damp soil 
at 1760 feet; stems ife inoh thiek, subterete, branched 
ell along, nodulese every 3 te 6 inches; the seft wood 
greenish; hrenchlete green, slender, strongly nodulose, 
drooping and forming a dense maes about its support; 
leeves thinly corieceous, horivontelly spreading or 
descending, flat with slightly recurved tips; inflores- 
cent spikes, ere¢t upon the aseending green peduncles, 
yellowish or oreamy white, ovlindrie, quite solid; fruit 
else solid, move or less hanging, 3/4 inch long, 1/2 
inch thick below the middle, light green, not strictly 
eylindrie but rather rugose; leaves shiny green above, 
paler green beerth; “Manieasteapey." Todaya, June, 1909. 
11060. Ophioglesesum peduncvlosun Desv. Single 
or in @mall clusters, in very moiet black @pmpsact soil 
of the cogen gress formetion at 1600 feet; yellow root 
stocks 1 inch below the surface, the underground stems 
whitish, otherwise dull olive green; leaves leathery, 
escendingly reeurved, flet, dull olive green on both 
aides: spikes green, erect, the spore segments yellowish 
brown; "Talinga.®  ‘Todaya, June, 1909. 
11051. kKnoxie corymbosa Yilid, @ingle or branched 
bienniels from e thickened, yellow roet erewn in black 
compact soil of the cogen region et 1500 feet; stem 
terete, purplish brown, rether strict; leaves limp, 
mostly ascending, flet, green or purplish on the upper 
side, much paler green benerth, the veins beacath 
cinereous white; inflerescence amall, termine], the 
odorless flowers erect, dull blue except the green 
eolyx ani the minute inner orgens; inirutescence stalks 
yellowish green, aseendingly apreeding; the small fruits 
very derk areenor turning Gull purplish; “Sambit.” 
fodaya, July, 1909. © 

