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26. Dryopteris chamaeotaria n. 8ubsp. - 
Rhizomate subrepeiite, stipitibus approxiinatis, tenuibus, flcxuosis, 10 
ad 13 cm. longis, parco puberulis et squamis pallirle fuscis snbulatis 
sparsis, nifostramineis, fronde ovata 13 cm. longa 7 cm. lata, magna 
pinna libera ovato-acuminata basi grosse lobata G cm. longa 2 cm. lata 
forminata^ 2 vcl 3 pinnis lateralibus utrinqiio^ altcrnis, petiohilatisj su- 
promis adnatis^ similibus sive valde rcdnctis ovato- ant rbombeo-ol)tusis, 
nervis pinnatis, 4 areolas inter cost-am marginemqiie fornmiitibiis, soris 
fere 1 mm. latis rotundis, nsque ad 5 pro lobo utroque costulac latere, 
uti videter exindiisiatis, rhachibus faciebusque minute puberulis, textura 
herbaeea, colore laete virente. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Mount Mariveles ( 1369 Whitford) 
September, 1005; (387 Topping) May, 1904; (6970 Elmer) November, 1904. 
A small deformed plant connected Avith the type of D. Ofaria, analogous to 
the relationship between D. dtversiloha and u. canesccns, an insular reduced 
form with feeble characters. 
27. Dryopteris Otaria (Kunze) 0. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. 2 (1891) 813. Aspid- 
ium Otaria Kunze; Mett Aspid. 34. n. 73. 
Palawan (764 Merrill) February, 1903. 
Rare, but distributed across the Malayan region. 
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28. Dryopteris Ramosii n. sp. 
Habitu cum Meniscio triphyUo v. elato valde conveniens^ pinnis valde 
remotiSj paucis, fere integris, caudatis, gemmaque minuta axillari pecu- 
liaris. Planta debilis, textura tenui. 
Eliizomate breviter repente crasso radicoso brunneo, foliis paucis ap- 
proximatis, stipite flexuoso basi incrassato squamulis paucis brovibus 
sparso rufo-stramineo, ad basin pennae anscrinae, porro vix corvinae cras- 
sitie^ 35 usque ad 60 cm. longa, frondem multum superante; tota planta 
nuda; fronde 20 ad 35 cm. longa, oblonga, pinnata, pinnis valde remotis, 
5 cm. distantibus, alternis, paucis, 1 ad 4 utrinque cum pinna terminal! 
longo petiolata, pinnis erecto patentibus basi cuneatis, fere sessilibus, 
ovato-oblongis 12 ad 15 cm. longis, 3 cm. latis, longe et abrupte caudate 
acuniinatis, marginc subintegris aut repando-cuneatis, in axilla rliacbiali 
sacpe gemma rotunda minima praeditis, costulis manifestis sed tenuibus 
a eosta ad marginem protensis 6 mm. separatis, nervis ca. 8 ad 10 utrinque, 
omnibus more Meniscii junctis et nervulos intermedios longiiudinaliter 
junctos emittcntibus, soris minutis, brunneis, rotundis, 7 aut 8 utroque 
costulae latere, costulae approximatis, indusio nullo. Textura herbacea 
aut papyracea, colore obscure viridi, subtus pallidiore. D. olaria longe 
recedit pinnis lobato-serratis, indusio etc: 
Luzon, Province of Rizal (1792 Ramos) January, 1907. Mindobo, Mount 
Halcon (6093 Merrill) November, 1906. 
