11108. Pankeum pilipes Nees, Knee deep biennial 
end ferming dente mete in fertile very moist and hunus 
covered soil of ofen pleces amongst weeds at 1500 feet; 
etem reelining end teking root at the nodes, Slender, 
branched, the temainel portion suberect; leaves profuse, 
éivericately recurved, seft, membranous, flet, Some paler 
bensath; inflorescence suberect, rather @trict, green af 
the foliage; “Barerit-pualns;" TYodaya, July, 1909. 
11109. Dryopterie syrantioa (Willd,s) O. Ke, Dense 
terrestriel tufts in fertile meibt humus covered ¢0i1 of 
woods along Atreanlets at 1500 feet; rootetock rigid, a 
few inches thick and at Leet that in heigth, the numerous 
reots very Blender and fibreus; etipes many from the sane 
root cluster, brown, erect, quite brittle especially 
toward the babe; frende nenrly a® leng a6 the #tipe, aseend« 
ingly ourved; the membrenous pinnee flat end straight, 
Similerly €@ul1 green on both sides; sori brown; “Saladot, * 
fodaya, duly, 1909, 
11216.  (Gnaleamus merrillii nanca Beec, ny vars A 
lerge course looping tree climber in wooded gulches and 
elons the Situlan river gorse from 1000 te 2000 feetysten 
1 1/2 to & imches thick, terete hard, glaucous green; the 
leefy portion 3 or 4 inehse thick; loaves seattered, 
divariastiely recurved, 165 feet long, net ineluding the 5 
feet long drooping end kooked rachis tip; rachis lesflese 
fox the basal 2 feat, much flattenod toward the base, 2 
inches wide, Smooth along the upper flat.eurfece and elong 
the e¢onvex lower side, Spineseent slong the edges, the & 
recurved hocks on the rachis eredually reduced to 3, 2 
and fineliy only one; leaflets subdrooping, the tips re- 
eurved, benesth paler green and congave especially toward 
the apex, thiekly or rigidly chartaceous, provided on 
both eiges with a few senttering tlenéer bristie like 
heirs, bet more numerous on the upper surface; sherth 
solidk glauceseent arcen, beset with 2 inches long and 
much less greyish brown bristles or spine@, 011 over exeept 
on the enlarged peticle base; infrutescence halt way between 
the Leaves which are at this point 2 feet apart, over the 
lower one ané oppotite the upper, 5 feet long, drooping, 
the main flattened end the sheaths sharply spinet- 
eont; the fruiting stelke alternating, Smooth, alto 
drooping, fruits yellowish green, globose, 1/8 te 1/2 inoh 
in Giameter, nearly mature; “Nange." Podaya, July, 1909s 
11111. Drvopteris pteroides (Retz) 0. EZ. In rather 
sgattering tufte from horizentel brenched reotetoeks, in 
wet fertile 6011 of woods along streamlets at 1500 feet; 
atipes aseending, somewhat eurved, rather sett, brownish 
beneath, greenish above; fronds much recurved, shorter tien 
the Btipe; the pinnes curvingly drooping, fiat, soft men~ 
branous, dork green above, much paler benerth, veiny, the 
brown Sori clustered about the free pertion of the seg- 
mente ox pinnuies; “Libaged;" Todeya, duly, 1909. 

