sourieh odor and distinet bitterish testa old bark brown, 
sealing in plates, on the branches emooth and grayish: 
leaves corisceous, shining on the upper darker green and 
conduplicate surface, recurved especially toward the apex; 
infruteecence upon erect or ascending stalks 1 to 6 inches 
long, and from 1 to 3 arising from the same termine] vortion 
of the twigs, hrown as sre the twigs: nuts usually only a 
few toward the end of the apikes, pale green, oboveid in 
shape, more or lees flattened on the side and acyoss the 
apex, fully 1 inch thick containing more than on, nutlet; 
"Limoelimen;" Todays, August, 1909, 
11316, Pittosperum clementis Merr, Bpiphytiec shrub 
upon Castanopsis number 11316 collected in damp forests 
at 4000 feet, south of the Sibulan river; steme several, 3 
to W feet long, ultimately laxly branched; bark aray, 
smooth; wood white, moderately soft, without oder or taste; 
twigs suberect; leaves ascending or horizontal, eoriaceous, 
fiat with recurved tips, deep green above, much lighter 
ereen of even yellowigh so beneath, with a strong! turpentine 
odor when crushed; fruitea dull green, ellipsoid, upon 
brown etalks, also of the same odor as the foliage when 
erushed; “Healagus." ‘Todaya, August, 1909. 
11317. Berchemis philippinensis Vid. A lofty tree 
climber in dense forests at 4000 feet south of the Sibulan 
‘Yiver; stems or branches widely seattering and overtopping 
the trees, 1/2 inch thick, tough, dull, green, smooth, 
hard, freely rebranched; leaves submembranous, horizontal 
and more or lees recurved, especially toward the apex, richly 
green above, yellowish or glaucescent green beneath, nerves. 
conspicuous; inflorescences spreading, from the uppermost 
leaf axils, yellowish green except the 5 creamy white petals 
and filaments bearing brownish anthers; “Ogat~+taecalauay; ” 
Todsya, August, 1909, 
42318, Seloderum philippinense ®lm. n. ep. Strict 
erect tree in fertile humus_-_covered soil of damp foreste: 
at 4000 feet, south of the Sibulan river; etem 25 feet high, 
? inches thick, branched from below the middle, wood hard, 
yellowish white, odorless ond tasteless; bark emoothish or 
more or lese lenticelled, brown and gray mottled; branches 
divaricate, rather long, laxly rebranched beyond the middie; 
twigs half drooping, leaves coriaceous, shining green above, 
half drooping, slightly paler beneath; flowers dull yellow, 
pendulous from the leaf axils,the calyx greener, all parts 
_ more or less tomentose and soft in texture, absolutely 
without oder; "Foogan;" Todaya, August, 1909, 
11319. Athyrium palauanense Copel, var. apoense 
Copel een. var, Small tufts in moist humus covered fertile 
soil of dense forests south of the Sibulan river at 4000 feet; 
reotetock well seated or fastened into the e0il, suberect, 
nearly 1/2 foot long and «a few inches thick: roote long, 
black, numerously rebranched; stipes ascendingly erect, sub- 
terete, dark green, with lighter green side streaks; 1 to 
3 feet long; fronds usually longer, somewhat curved; pinnae 


