4? SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Province, Luzon. It was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Also- 
phila crinita Hook., a species that does not occur in the Philip- 
pines. The species is of wide distribution in the Archipelago, 
growing in primeval forests at medium altitudes. a 
Illustrative specimen from Cagayan Province, Luzon, January, 
1912 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. F203; 
POLYPODIACEAE 
DRYOPTERIS Adanson 
Pteris sinuata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 830, non Thunb., nec Wall.=Poly- 
podium adiantiforme Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 573 (adianthiforme) 
(sp. nov.); ed. 3, 3 (1879) 245—=DRYOPTERIS DISSECTA (Forst.) 
O. Ktze. 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to N ephrole- 
pts davallioides Kunze, a species that does not extend to the Phil- 
ippines and one to which Blanco’s description does not at all 
apply. The description is so very short and imperfect that it 
is practically impossible properly to interpret the species except 
by exclusion, and the present reduction is based primarily on 
that fern growing in the vicinity of Manila that best agrees with 
the description. Ss 
Illustrative specimen from Masambong, Rizal Province, Lu- 
zon, November, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 181). 
HEMIGRAMMA Christ 
Acrostichum simplex Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 826; ed. 2 (1845) 571; 3, 3 
(1879) 241, non Sw.=HEMIGRAMMA LATIFOLIA (Meyen) Copel. 
in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 406. 
- Synonyms of this are: Hemionitis gymnopteroidea Copel., 
Polybotrya latifolia Meyen, Gymnopteris latifolia Presl, G. tac- 
caefolia J. Sm., G. trilobata J. Sm., G. subquinquifida Pres}, 
Dendroglossa latifolia Fée, D. taccaefolia Fée, Hemionitis zol- 
lingert Kurz, Leptochilus zollingeri Fée, L. subquinquifidus Fée, 
and Hemigramma zollingeri Christ. Meyen’s specific name is the 
oldest valid one, although Blanco’s description is much earlier. — 
Blanco’s Acrostichum simplex is not cited by Fernandez-Villar by — 
name, but from the page citations on page 342 of the Novissima 
Appendix it is evident that he intended to refer it to Acrostichum 
latifolium Sw.=Elaphoglossum latifolium J. Sm., a species con- 
fined to tropical America. Blanco’s description is very poor, 
and in respect to size does not apply to Hemigramma latifolia; 
“de la altura de una braza” * * * “estipites lampifios”, but 
otherwise there are few discrepancies. I do not know any Phil- 
ippine fern that agrees with Blanco’s description in all respects, — 
and consider it very probable that the description is based on 
