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natifida, rhaclii pubo falcato-inflexa minuta dense vestita; pinnis ses- 
Bilibiis, infimis deflexis exeeptis basi tnineatis, apice rotundatis, 8 mm 
ktis, aiiproximatis, i ad ^ ad costam incisis, lobis tnmeatis, interdum 
scrrulatis, minute ciliatis, subcoriaceis, eostis et venis infra setosis, lamina 
mida; venis utmiue latere ca. 4, infimis anastomosantil)us; soris mcdia- 
libus, indnsio nidimentario. 
Neoros, m. Canlaun, alt. 1,200 ra, Merrill G93J, (type). Mindaxao, Camp 
Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens s. n. 
In appearance very like D. exigua (J. Sm.) 0. K. ^^•l,ich however i.s a Thelvp- 
tens and without reduced pinnae on tlie stipe. 
Lastraea exigua J. Sm. seems to me to be a valid species, althougli 
It has been reduced to D. phiHppina (Pr.) C. Chr. In the description 
of the latter, Presl states clearly that it includes but part of the plants 
in Cuming's No. 251; and the fern he descril,es is smaller in all parts- 
than our specimen of that number. We have no plant in the group 
with such an indusiuin as Presl describes. 
r.a,fraca exigua J. Sm. is a nomen nudum, and Cuming 251 and 
^2 are cited as specimens. The first diagnosis accompanying the use of 
tlus specific name is given by Mettenius, Aspidium No. 180, 1858. He 
distinguishes two foms, a and p, the first of which is said to be Phrgop- 
tem nervosa Fee. This fern can be identified with absolute certainty; 
It IS neither of the plants mentioned by Smith, both of wliich fall in 
tJie lorm ^ of Mettenius. It is represented in our herbaria bv speci- 
mens collected in Surigao, by Bolster. Fee's name is unfortunatelv not 
valid in Dryopteris.. In publishing the combination Dryopteris exigm. 
U. Kuntze refers to Hooker's Nephrodium exignum; and Hooker's diag- 
nosis ,s translated from Fee's of P. nervosa. Under tlie circumstances 
this fern IS to he called D. exigua (Mett.) K 
L<^traea exi,jua J. Sm. is thus M-ithout a name, and for the plant 
Which I have best ground to construe as this, since it is our Cuming 
D^rtont °t • ^''"'''^^^'"'" (^••^^l) C. Chr., I propose the nnmc 
Dryoptens confusa. ^ ■ 
Thelypteris rhizomate repcnte, stipitibus confertis ca. 20 cm altis, 
mnute pubcmhs; fronde ao-30 cm alta, 4-5 cm lata; pinnis sessi- 
libus basi truncatis haud cordatis, apice obtusis vel rotundatis, ulrin-iue 
1^ ad 4 ad costam incisis, subauriculatis ; eostis et venis infra sparsissime 
puberulis ; sons costalibus, indusio minuto, fugax^e. 
whid'Te , ! TT *^''''" ^- ^^'- '' ^"y P^°''='bly the plant of Cumins 
Iscr pL "t f 7 T -'"'-,272. Except as to the fndusium it fits Presl's 
d ec e oV? n"" '"• '"" '"""^""" '' ^™'^» and transient, and can be 
eondtlon sone ,'" °' ^"^ ^"' ''''"^'^ '° "- «P*'"-n are in excellent 
eond.fon. Son.e scales or fragments of abortive sporangia sometimes can be 
