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nianifestis, tetura papyracea rigidiuscula, colore dilute ochraceo-viridi, 
soris et indusiis sacpius augustissimis, facie superiore saepius setis rigidis 
sea bra. 
Luzox, Province of Bataan, Lamao River (241 Copeland) February, 1904; 
Province of Benguet, Baguio (5810 Elmer) March, 1904; Ambuklao (1827 
Copeland) October, 1005: Province of Panipanga, Mount Arayat (3814 Merrill) 
May, 1904 J Province of Rizal, Montalban {Loher) October, ISOO, X<)v(?niber, 
1905j Angilog (Loker) March, 1906. Palawan (741, CG2 Foxwoilhy) March, 
April, 1906. 
« A slender small form, the fronds rather short and broadly deltoid, the stipes 
rough, slender, tawny, the sognients pectinate, free at the base, papyraceous, 
yellowish in color, the sori and indusia generally very slender. This form is 
often found strongly reduced in size, resembling Pteris Orevilffoyia. 1 have the 
same form from 8ikkim "Pteris aspericaulis Wall." leg. Dr. Jerd&n, and from 
Cao Bang, Tonkin, leg. Br. Billet, 1900, 
Var. pluricaudata (Copel. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. If)*!, pro 
specie). 
Fronde iiiinuta 10 cm. longa et lata podata pejitagona, segiiieiitis 
%. . imbricatis vix 1 cm. longis. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles (3755 Merrill) January, 1904. 
65. Pteris ensiformis Burm. Fl. Ind. 230, var. permixta n. var. 
An insular form, characterized by the apex of the fertile frond being elongated 
into a linear caudiform appendage much exceeding the plant, furnished with 
irregular short obtuse horizontal lobes as in P, heteromorpha. 
Panay, Capiz (56 Copeland) January, 1904. 
66. Pteris cretica Linn. var. stenophylla Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. (1829) 
I t. ISO, P. digitata Wall. Cat. 91. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal (53 Foanoorthy) January, 1906; District of Bontoc, 
Sagada (1903 Copeland) November, 1905, identiciil with specimens from India, 
Charwal, Bhatta Massuri, leg. Hope; Sikkim, Tendong, leg. Gamble, No. 10340. 
pteris cretica is exceedingly variable in the Philippines, 1 have not seen from 
the Archipelago forms resembling those of Europe, but the above specimens 
match closely P. stenophylla, with 3 to several pinnae at the summit of the 
frond, more or less fan-like, the tips elongated. Texture normal, firm, shining, 
light green. 
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07. Pteris intromissa n. subsp. 
Differt a typo P. crclicae pinnis et segmontis angii.<tiori])us magis 
decurrentibiis, obscure aut pinmbeo-viridibus fere glancini?;, opacis, tex- 
tura teniiiter papyracea soro angustissinio, ncrvis tenuissimia suboccultis. 
llhizoinate brevi, radicoso, stipitibus fa.-^eiculatis, tenuibus rufo- aut 
fusco-stramineis opacis, fronde 30 cm. longa et Intaj apice ternata, infra 
Y pinnata^ pinnis oppositis, mediis simplicibus infiniis profunde bi- aut 
tri-partitis, decurrentibu.^ liueari-lanceolatis aut linearibus caudatis, 20 
cm. longis, sterilibu,-^ 12 mm. fertilibus fJ mm. latis, sterilibus a basi 
ad apicem, fertilibus apice acute serratis, nervis tenuissimis parum 
manifestis, simplicibus aut fureatis, obliquis soro indusioque angustissimo 
