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SPTCILTGTUM FILICUM PHILIPPINBNSIUM. 179 
GLEICHENIA Smith. 
( § Diplopterygiwrn . ) 
On examination of the Philippine forms of this group with the air! 
of survey given by Presl -- it is possible to distinguish the following forms: 
85. Gleichenia excelsa J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. ]?ot. 3: 420, Tiomen midum; 
Hook. Sp. Fil. 1 : 5. Tab. h- ^; Presl 1. c. 385. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio (COOC Elmer) ; [Lohcr) March, 1807. 
This species is distributed from northern India to central China and Java. 
Shillong {Clarke 37478); Munipore {Watt G139). Ponang TTilU {Ridley). 
Yunnan, Mengtie {Henry 9167) j Moilini {Egbert 1897); Hongkong {Fahrr 
1091); Ningpo Mountains (i^a&e?- 219). Java [Schiffnvr). 
86. Gleichenia glauca (Tliunbg. Fl. Jap. 338, rolypodium) Hook. Sp. Fil. 
1: 4 (Swartz Syn. 1G4, 390, Mertefisia). 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Bnnajao {Loher) February, 1900, alt. 
2,250 ni. 
Identical with spcciniens from Japan except for a covering of reddish hairs 
along the costa; in young plants. The discovery of this species in the Philippines 
augments the number of species of the temperate regions of the East that extend 
to the highhuids of the Pliilippines. It is on the whole rather a remarkable 
distribution, for in this group it is the only species found in Japan, wliile from 
China T know Gleichenia excelsa, 0. gigantea Wall. (Yunnan, Delavay) and the 
following: 
87. Gleichenia laevissima Christ in Bull. Acad. Mans. (1902) 208. 
Luzon, Province of Bengm-t, Pauai (1954 Copeland) , 2,000 m. alt. 
Still another Chinese type, of which J liave specimens from Yunnan {Delavay) 
and Lu Mount {Faher) August, 1897. 
LYGODIUM >S\v. 
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88. Lygodium Basilanicum n. sp. 
Axibus ochreis tonuibus vix ultra 1 mm. crassis^ pinnis petiolatis, pe- 
tiolo 3 cm. longo angustissime alato, pinna ambitu semirotunda 12 cm. 
longa et lata, dichotoma, partibus petiolulatis (petiolo 0.5 cm. longo 
alato) pedatifidis^ 3 ant 4-lobis^ eentro indiviso, 1 ad 2 cm. longo et lato, 
lobis patulis, 9 cm. longis, 6 mm. latis, linearibns acuminatis integris 
tenuissime marginatis, lubo basali deflexo, costis tenuissimis nianifestis 
rufo.stramineis, nervis })roininnlis obliquis 2 aut 3-furr-atiSj confortis, lobis 
fertilibus medio aut infra medium subito usque ad alam 1 mm. latam 
contractis, sporophyllis pectinato-confortis, 2.5 mm. longis, 1 mm, latis, 
utrinque circa 8 sporangia gerentibus bninnois munitis. Tcxiura coria- 
cea nee papyracoa, colore sicce Immneo, opaco. 
Basilan (28 DeYore et Hoover) April, 1903. 
A small species of the circinatum group, differing from L. cirdnalum by its 
pinnae being dichotomous and with petioled pedately arranged pinnules, the 
segments not diniori>hous but narrowed and Iwaring tlte sporopbylls on the upper 
half. Dimensions of L. Japonicum. 
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Epini. Bot., 384. 
