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Baker, J. 6. Report on Burbidge’s Ferns of the 
Sulu Archipelags. (Journal of Botany 1879. März.) 
Gewissermassen als Ergäuzung zur Farn-Flora Borneo’s 
erhalten wir in obiger Aufzählung Mittheilungen über die 
Farne der „Sulu-Inseln“, zwischen Borneo und den Philip- 
pinen gelegen. Obgleich diese Inseln zum grösseren Theil 
Culturland sind, finden sich doch auf den 2—3000 Fuss 
hohen Gebirgen derselben eine Anzahl Gefässkryptogamen, 
unter denen 4 neue Arten. Die Originaldiagnosen dieser 
lassen wir folgen: 
Cyathea suluensis Baker nova spec. Fronds 
ample tripinnatifid or tripinnate, moderately firm in texture, 
green and glabrous on both surfaces, with naked pale brown 
unmuricated rachises, the midrib of the pinnules and ter- 
tiary segments furnished with many small white bullate 
scales. Pinnae sessile, oblong-lanceolate, a foot or more 
long, five to six inches broad. Pinnules lanceolate, sessile, 
half to three-quarters of an inch broad, cut down to a nar- 
row wing or occasionally at the base to the rachis into close 
ligulate-oblong toothed tertiary segments one-sixth of an inch 
broad. Veins five-to six-jugate, erecto-patent, distinct, dee- © 
ply forked, the lowest posterior veinlet springing from the 
costa of the pinnule, not from that of the tertiary segment. 
Sori rather small, placed at the forking of the lower veins, 
medial as regards the segment. Involucre persistent, hemis- 
phaerical, entire or slightly broken up as it matures. 
Pteris Treacheriana Baker noya spec. Caudex 
‚erect. Stipes densely tufted, very slender, naked, purple- 
black, four to eight inches long. Fronds oblong-lanceolate, 
. simply pinnate six to eight inches long, quite glabrous throug 
hout, moderately firm in texture, green on both sides. Pin- 
nae seven to thirteen, linear, one-eighth to one-sixth of an 
inch broad, two to three inches long, the end one like the 
others, all the side ones except the one to three lowest palrs 
simple, the uppermost pair dilated and decurrent at the bas®, 
the others sessile, narrowed to the base, the lowest pair 
shortly petioled, two-to three-forked from the base. Margn 
of the barren segments sharply toothed. Veins distinct, 
erecto-patent, usually once forked, rarely simple or twıce 
forked. Involucre narrow, distinet. — ei 
Polypodium (Phegopteris) oxyodon Baker, 
noya species. Rhizome short-creeping. Scales small, erect, 
lanceolate, membranous, dark brown. Stipes tufted, naked, 
 substramineous, half to one foot long, slightly scaly only 
near the base. Lamina deltoid-oblong, half to one foot long, 
 bipinnatifid, moderately firm in texture, green and quite gla- 
