11398. Aeplenium normale Don. Tuftlets forming 
dense mats upon wet moss covered rocks in dense woods at 
6750 feet of mount Apo; stipes slender, ascending, brown, 
usually shorter than the frond; fronds ascendingly reeurved, 
the tips occasionally tipping the ground and forming a pilante 
let; pinnae membranous, horizontally arranged dark green 
and somewhat shining upon the upper side, flat, paler green 
beneath; "Dalimbacut;” Todaya, August, 190%, 
11399. Chioeranthus brachystachys ©lm. Suffrutes- 
cent plants in very damp woods of fertile humus covered soil 
at 66800 feet of mount Apo: stems 3 to 5 feet high, sparingly 
branched below, freely branched near or at the top, Laxly 
ascending, smooth, terete, the thickn es of an ordinary 
lead pencil, swollen at the joints, dark green; twigs aseend- 
ing, horizontally spreading, flat or only the tips recurved, 
much paler green beneath; inflorescence¢ ascending; bracte 
etalke and pistilliate flowers green; stamens yellow; fruits 
1/3 inoh thick, globose, scarlet red; “Ceariecori;" Tadaya, 
August, 1909. 
11400, Sehefflersa williameii ©, &, Bob. Bpiphytes 
upon smell trees of moist woods at 6750 feet of mount Apo; 
etema several, seattered, or more or less climbing branched 
from the base, the branches slender and half drooping, the 
twige suberect; the soft aralaceous wood covered with smooth 
yellowish gray bark; petiohkes green, secending; leaflets 
eoriaceous, shining on mek both sides, much darker green above , 
flat but strongly recurved: inflorescence composed of 5 spikes 
(more or less) from 5 to 10 inches long, stalks pale or 
whitish green, the pedicels reddish; calyx petals and fila- 
mente dull red; ovary yellow, with greenish tips; anthers 
reddish brown; fruit pele whitieh with reddish brown apica) 
portions; "Pararan;* Todaya, August, 1909. 
1140A, Dischidia merrillii anguata Sehitr. n. var, 
Bpiphytic upon small trees in very moist woods at 6780 feet 
of mont Apo; stems slender, green, terete, branched; branches 
hanging, elender green; leaves also hanging, thiekly rigid, 
pale green, flat on the upper side, convexly angled ky beneath ; 
inflorescent stalke aleo greenish, descending; "Corandat;" 
Todaya, August, 1909, 
11402, Spiraeopeie celebica Mig, Tree 30 feet high 
with a 1 foot thick stem, in damp, wooded ravines slong the 
Ceriban creek at 6500 feet of mouf Apo; wood moderately 
hard, whitish, half purly; odorless and tasteless or on ly 
with a slight/ mm acrid fliawor; old bark brown, gray on the 
pranches, wirutely cheeked longitudinally; branches mainly 
at the top, widely spreading end crookedly rebranched, not 
numerous, the ultimate ones rather thick and guberect; leaves 
horizontally spreading, mainly at the ends of the branchlets; 
the petiole swollen at the vase and provided with broadly 
erbicular foliaceous bracts; leaflets shallowly conduplic ste 
on the upper half shining surfece, yellokish green beneath, 
tips recurved, chartsceous; infrutescence aseending from 
the uppermost leaf axils, yellowish brown; "Saliapi;” 
fodaya, August, 1909. 
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