92 COPELAND. 
MERINTHOSORUS Copeland genus novum. 
Genus gregis Drynariae^ fronde deorsum sterile segmentis more D. 
quercifoliae deciduis, sursum fertile pinnata, pinnis angustissimis, soro 
utroque latere uno. Nomen ex firfptvOos, linea, et o-w/aos. Type, King 
No. 288. 
M. drynarioides (Hooker) Copel. comb. nova. 
Acrostichum drynarioides Hooker, Species Filicum 5 (1864) 282. 
This plant seems to have been placed in a different genus about as often as 
it has been collected. By definition, never a very satisfactory reason for putting 
a plant in a group, it fits best in Photinopteris ; but it is more nearly related to 
Dryosfachyum. From the latter, and from the still more similar Aglaomorpha, 
it is sharply distinguished hy the very long, uninterrupted sori. 
I have named King's plant as type of the genus, because I am not perfectly 
certain of the nature of the type of the species. The Papuan plant is identical 
with that of the Solomon Islands, cited in the original description; but the 
Penang plant, which receives first mention, is known to me only by description 
and illustration, and these seem not to agree perfectly with the specimens from 
farther east. 
LECANOPTERIS Blume. 
1. L. pumila Bl. 
'So. 105, Waria River, above 300 m. 
Java, the Philippines. The genus is new to New Guinea. 
ELAPHOGLOSSUM Schott. 
E. conforme (Sw.) Schott. (?) 
'No. 212, Goodenough Bay, alt. 1,300 m. 
The specimen sent is a fertile and a sterile frond, both old and without 
rhizome, and can not be determined positively. It does not agree with the 
description of E. sordidum just published by Christ, the first plant in the genus 
known from New Guinea. 
E. conforme in various forms is pantropic. 
ACROSTICHUM L. 
A. aureum L. 
No. 204, common along the coast. 
Pantropic. 
