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SCHIZAEACE^. 
OSMUNDA Linn. 
Osmunda bromel isefolia (PresI) Copel. {NcphrodUon (?) Prcsl, Pu'I. TIacnk. 
1 (1825) 33.) 
On steep river banks at 100 m. alt. (Nos. 5852, 5851). Cuming's No. 173 from 
Luzon is this plant, and it seems to have been collected recently by Loher. 
This species is distinguished from our common and widespread Osmnnda 
hanlsiafoUa, exactly as was done by Presl^'^ in that the latter "difTurt pinnis 
oppositis brevius petiolatis brevioribus inaequalateribus, basi cuneatis, undique 
inciso-serratis, serraturis convexis, venulis bitidis," only the position of the pinna' 
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is inconstant. Bromeli(rfolia is the older of the two specific nanioj^. 
GLEICLIENIACE.l]. 
GLEICHENIA Smith. 
Gleichenia dicarpa R. Br. 
In open heath-lands at 2,500 m. alt. (No. G048), a small form, in some spec- 
imens approaching the var. alpina, found on Mount Apo and thence to New 
Zealand. We have tliis also from Mount Pulgar, Palawan. 
New Caledonia, Tasmania. 
There is also on Mount Apo a plant hardly as scaly as Gleichenia vulcanica Bl., 
but referable to it, which, according to my field notes, intergrades with G. aJplna: 
if the notes are correct, these species are properly united in Species Filicum. 
Gleichenia linearis (Eurm.) Clarke. 
Seandent on mossy ridge at 1,800 m. alt. (No. G047), a very large handsome 
form. 
Common in the Philippines. 
Pantropic. 
Gleichenia dolosa Copel. 
On steep semi-forested slopes of ridge at 1,000 m. alt. (No. 0040). The eostie 
are decidedly scaly, but this is true of wome speclnH'ns from ^Fount Marivelcs 
as well. 
Luzon, Mindanao. 
Gleichenia glauca (Thunb.) Hook. 
Seandent on exposed ridge at 2,000 ui. alt. (No. (i045), the horizontal piiina3 
about 6 ft. long. 
Luzon. 
India to Japan and Polynesia. 
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Gleichenia laevigata (Willd.) Hook. 
In thickets at 700 m. alt. forming dense growths (No. 6044). 
Luzon, Mindanao. 
Malaya. 
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