11183. Platyoerium grende J. Sm. epiphytes upon 
limbe or tronks of trees in molet bemboo forests or in 
densely wooded ravines of rivers or streeme st 2500 feet 
(having a range from 3000 feet to 1000); the rigid root- 
etock suberect, giving rise at the terminal exterior 
portion to new fertile and sterile fronde (the old dead 
leaves forming or filling the interior basel receptacle 
and serves as 8 moisture preserver); sterile fronds aseend- 
ing, the eleft divisions recurved, subeylindrie, at the base 
closely surrounding the besel reeeptacle or origin and 
place of attechment of the roostock; coriaceous, cabbage 
green especially amx on the under side; veine bluish purple; 
fertile fronds pendulous, else cleft, ultimately divided 
into strep-like appenderea, gradually tapering from the 
strongly flettened and rigid bese, eimiler in color and 
texture to the sterile onee, the brown blotehee or sori 
near the margin of the sinuses, of the lower or under aide; 
rootetock tips cothed with soft yellowish brown eseslea; 
"Banola-colago.” fodeya, July, 1909. 
11384. Slseesearpus gigantifolius Glm. n. sp. Large 
tree on very steep densely wooded embenkmente of a nearly 
porpendiauler plank near the Sibulean river at 2600 feet; 
stem 66 feet high, 3 1/2 feet thiek, not strictly terete, 
buttreeged at the bece; brenches mainly toward the top, — 
eookedly rebrenched and widely spreading over a streamlet: 
ultimate brenchlete rather slender and somewhat hanging; 
the green tips suberect; end more or lees triangular; 
petioles escending, yellowith green, slternate, tea trien- 
guler; thiekened et soth ende, ascendingly euarved at the 
dietal end; infruteecengse below the leaves along the twigs, 
the brownish green spikes recurved and e £& foot long; 
fruite deep red, smooth, nearly 1 inch leng, 1/2 ineh 
thick, ellipsoid or obecurely obovately ellipsoid, upon 
8/4 ineh long brown divericats pedicels; meat mealy;, — 
yellow; etone shallowly grooved or sesllioped; wlades 
ellipsoid, lighter green beneath, dull or deep green 
above and sublueid, shellowly conduplicate and slightly 
reearved, the veins yellowish creen, prominent beneath; 
bud spike 6 inches long: eslyx green, the corolle yeks& 
.yellowivh green, the stamens yellowish; wood white, soft, 
odorless and tasteless; bark yellowish grey emoothish, 
"“Habel;" Todeya, July, 1909. 
11166. Plenchonia spectabilis Merr. Lerge tree, 
here snd there seattered in denee foreste of very damp ~~ 
places or in seepege roeky soil of or elong streame at 
2600 feet; twige smooth, reddish brown, comparatively short 
end forming more or lese bushes; lesves membranous, nearly 
similerly light green on both sides, the hanging ones flat, 
those horizontal more or lees eondupliecate and recurved 
toward the tip; inflorescence terminal, odorless; buds 
obovoid, dark green throughout, the 4 esalyx segments similer 
in eolor and persistent; petals deciduous, freeg, 1 ineh 
long, cblong, green mixed with yellow and white 4 or 5; 
style yellowish at the base, otherwise dark green; stemene 
united to form a fleshy rim; red up to the middle, whitish 
above but the whitish portion soon withering to a brown 
color; young fruit ellipsoid, 3/4 ineh long; "Obanoban;" 
Todaya, July, 1909. | 

