ingly divaricate, the lower basal portion on the ineide 
yellowish, and with 2 purplish side streaks; fruits green-« 
ish brown, sscendingly curved, terete, sradually tapering 
from the base. Tedaya, Aucust, 1909, 
11274. Piper parcirameum ¢, MO. n. ep.. A lax under- 
shrub, 3 to 5 feet high, in moist humus covered soil of 
dense forests at 3000 feet; stem 1 (io) more from the same 
root, Teclining and with ende erect or suberect, less than 
1/2 ineh thick, terete, nodolose, smooth) green; branches 
erect from the inclining stem; leaves coriaceous, divaricate, 
dark green above, ¢onspicuously whitened beneath; epikes 
ereet, upon 1 inch long green lutel peduncles, from creamy 
white to creamy yellow; "Salimbangon;” ‘Todays, Aucust, 
1909. 
11275, Christensenia Cumingii Christ. Succulent 
tufte, in moist fertile soil of forests on gentle gloves 
leading to streamlets, at 3000 feet’ rootstoek fleshy hori- 
zontal, short, nearly 1/2 ineh thick, at the distal end 
giving rise to £ to 5 stalks stipes terete, dull green, 
sucCulent, at the base subtended by 4 similarly colored 
brent, suberect, 5 to 15 inches high, by falléng leaving 
the basal portion intact with the brant; leaflets thiekly 
coriaceous, dark dull green on the upper side, yellowieh 
green beneath, mostly horizontal, varying from 1 to 3 or 
even 5; sori pale yellow.or dirty brown, easily detatched, 
Gircular and entirely upon the surface; "Baliotua;”" 
Todays, Auguet, 1909, 
11276, Selaginella magnifica Warb, Solitary or more 
commonly forming spreading clusters in moist humus ¢ overed 
fertile soil, of dense forests at 3000 feet; stem horizontal 
in the G#eny‘and taking root, above ground strict, rigid, 
brittle, dull green and slong the edges provided with folia-= 
Ceous bracts, branched from the middle; branches ascending, 
usually twisted and curved so as to spread out in a cireular 
fashion; leaflets tightly imbricate, very dark shiny green 
above, much lighter green beneath; the ultimate segments 
ascendingly curved, the fruiting tips quadrangular, also 
dark green; "Langonoan;" Todaya, August, 1909, 
11287, Schefflera merrilliid fim; n. sp. A tree 
Climber in humid forests at 3000 feet; atem 2 inches thick, 
terete; wood sappy white, bitterish, soft and porous, with 
a large white pith; bark gray, smooth; branches at the top 
and widely spreading, rather erooked, vellowish, 1 inch 
thick or only 1/2 inch at the leaf-bearing ends; leaves 
agtending; the 5 to 9 leaflets thickly coristeous, ase end~ 
ing or horizontal, dark green on the upper shallowly ¢on- 
xt duplicate surfsee, mutch lighter ereen beneath; infrutes- 
cence from the terminal ase ending twigs, 1 to 2 feet lone, 
branched only from near the base, stalke/ green; the salmon- 
Colored subglobose fruits densely clustered upon short stalks 
scattered along the 3 to 7? main spikes; "Basuloi;" Todaya, 
Auguet, 1909, 
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