THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. VIII MAY, 1913 ' No. 8 
NOTES ON SOME JAVAN FERNS 
By Edwin Bingham Copeland 
(From the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, 
Los Banos, P. /.) 
Three plates 
Through the courtesy of Mr. William R. Maxon of the United 
States National Herbarium and of the Curator of the Herbarium, 
Mr. F. V, Coville, a large collection of ferns made in Java by 
the Owen Bryant Expedition has been sent to me for determina- 
tion. The collection was not made by botanists and naturally 
was not selected with the same skill and judgment that would 
have been possible on the part of men more familiar with these 
plants. Nevertheless the number of new species in proportion 
to the old is remarkably small for a collection in this part of the 
world, and speaks well for the thoroughness with which the Island 
of Java has been explored and its flora studied. An enumera- 
tion of these species would be of no interest, and accordingly 
only those which seem to be new or to suggest comments of real 
interest are mentioned here. 
MARATTIA Swartz 
MARATTIA TERNATEA de Vriese. 
Mount Salak above Goenoeng Boender, alt. 1,200 m. No. 453. 
Agrees satisfactorily with the description of Ternate specimens and with 
Philippine plants determined as this species. 
CYATHEA Smith 
CYATHEA GLABRA (Bl.) CopeL 
No. 531, from the northern slope of Mount Salak, alt. 725 m. 
This is peculiar in having the sori, even those of the lowest vein, almost 
costular; still I think the identification is correct. 
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