The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany, 
Vol. VII, No. 2. June, 1912. 
NEW PAPUAN FERNS. 
By Edwin Bingham Copeland. 
(From the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, Los Banos.) 
Stenochlaena intermedia Copel. sp. nov. 
Rhizomate ca. 1 cm crasso, basique stipitis paleis atrocas- 
taneis 15 mm longis, 1.5 mm latis sat dense vestito et deinde 
ob baseos duras spiniformes earum horrida; stipite 40 cm vel 
alto, valido, sursum rhachique paleis latioribus vestitis et baud 
spinescentibus ; fronde 60 ad 70 cm alta, pinnata, pinnis ad 
rhachin articulatis; pinnis utroque latere ca, 8, frondis sterilis 
subsessilibus, basi plus minus obliquis, rotundato-truncatis, apice 
abrupte breviter caudatis, 20 ad 22 cm longis, 45 ad 55 mm latis, 
integris, papyraceo-coriaceis, glabris, venis liberis; frondis fer- 
tilis pinnulis stipitatis (stipitibus 4 ad 8 mm longis), 15 ad 
20 cm longis, 2 mm latis, sursum sensim angustatis. 
Papua, Ambasi, King 370. 
This fern has the deciduous pinnae of S. aculeata (Bl.) Kunze, but 
otherwise is rather suggestive of Lomariopsis. In general appearance it 
suggests LoTnagramvia rather than any Stenochlaena. 
Humata tenuis Copel. sp. nov. 
Rhizomate 2 ad 3 mm crasso, paleis brunneis dense vestito; 
stipitibus frondium sterilium ca. 3 fertilium ca. 7 cm altis, 
paleaceis ; fronde sterile 5 ad 8 cm alta, deltoidea, tripinnatifida, 
pinnulis oblongo-linearibus, coriaceis, glabris, rhachibus palea- 
ceis; fronde fertile 10 ad 13 cm alta, deltoidea, acuminata, 
quadripinnatifida ; pinnulis" infimis oblongo-linearibus, in seg- 
mentis angustissimis pinnatifidis ; soris apud baseos segmenta- 
rum, indusio grande. 
Papua, Gira Track, King 367. 
Near H. vestita, but much more finely cut than is this species or H. 
introrsa Christ. This is possibly Davallia Chaerophylla Ces. but that name 
was used earlier. 
67 
