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148 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 
SCHIZOLOMA FULIGINEUM Copel. 
Nos. 2677, 2678, Kuching, and 2360, Mount Santubong. 
The apparently common occurence of this fern in Sarawak raises a 
strong suspicion that it is S. induratum (Baker) C. Chr., but it remains 
difficult to reconcile it with several details of Baker’s description. It is 
known from Sibuyan, and Surigao (Mindanao), in the Philippines. 
MICROLEPIA HANCEI Prantl. 
This has been sent in twice by the native collector, who has not sent 
M. Speluncae at all. One of these collections (No. 2442) is from Sikomah, 
and the other (No. 76) without locality. No. 76 is in no wise distinguish- 
able from the Hongkong plant, and No. 2442 is surely the same species. 
From the apparent commonness of this fern in Sarawak, it may be surmised 
that it has been regarded as M. Speluncae. 
PLAGIOGYRIA MINUTA Copel. sp. nov. 
Rhizomate erecto, breve, radicibus et basibus frondium den- 
sissime vestito; fronde sterile ca. 6 cm, alta, 10-12 mm lata, 
stipite usque ad 1 cm alto et deorsum rachi quadrangulatis 
minute paleaceis; pinnis multis, alternantibus, sessilibus, 6 mm 
longis, 1.5-2 mm latis, obtusis, crenatis, coriaceis, glabris; venis 
simplicibus, utroque latere costae 3 vel 4; frondis fertilis stipite 
3 cm alto, pinnis paucis, stipitatis, 2-8 mm longis, 1.5-2 mm 
latis, cordatis, margine retroflexa lata; annulo continuo, cellulis 
ca. 26. 
Sarawak, locality unknown, native collector No. 398. 
An evident and near relative of Plagiogyria egenolfioides (Baker) Copel. 
in Journ. Straits Branch Roy. As. Soc. 63 (1912) 72, but much smaller 
throughout, and the sterile pinnae usually narrowed at the base instead 
of cordate or auricled. 
POLYPODIUM BURBIDGE! Baker. 
The largest fronds have the typical arrangement of sori, but some 
distinctly more slender fronds have the segments bearing all the sori there 
is room for, and looking quite like those of Polypodium celebicum. These 
narrower and more copiously fertile fronds are the older on the rhizome, 
suggesting that they are the more primitive, which, indeed, would be 
anticipated from their much greater resemblance to other species; but as 
the rhizome which bears these fronds is larger and apparently older than 
others which bear only fronds with sori along the costa, the suggested 
evidence from ontogeny is not very strong; and a decrease in the production 
of fruit is not a usual mark of maturity. 
POLYPODIUM PEDICULATUM Baker. 
Based on or combined with Polypodium Lobbianum Hooker, Sp. Fil. 4 
(1862) 226, ¢. 278 B. This figure is not at all a good one; it represents 
the pinnae as much too wide, and changes very essentially the appearance 
of the fern. The collection made by the native collector for the Bureau 
of Science, No. 2129, from Mount Bayat, fits Hooker’s description perfectly, 
but looks very unlike the plate. The pinnae are exceedingly narrow, and 
