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conspiciiis, petiolo 2-7 cm. longo terete glabro. Frondes fertiles lineares, coriacen?, 

 13 cm. longse, 2 mm. latse, glabi-ae, nervis celatis, petiolo 5 cm. lougo terete. Sori 

 per totam longitudinem laminse biseriati, elliptici, majusculi. 



Camps VI b and VII to VIII, 3900 to 4900 ft. 



Allied to F. Bakeri. The rhizome is covered witli beautiful silvery white scales ; the 

 sterile fronds resemble those of a Selllgiiea, being stiffly coriaceous and drying yellow. 



Plbopbltis renifera., Ridl., sp. nov. 



Rhizoma gracile, squamis pallidis angustis acuminatis tectum, circiter 1 mm. crassum. 

 Frondes steriles anguste spathulatse, apice rotundatae, coriaceae, 5 cm. longce, 3 mm. 

 latse; fertiles lineares, obtusse, glabrae, marginibus undulatis, 15 cm. longae, 2 mm. 

 latse, costa prominula, nervis celatis, stipite gracili in laminam gradatim dilatato. 

 Sori circiter 16, rotundi, alterni vel oppositi, remoti. 

 Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



This resembles P. stenopteris, Baker, of Borneo, but the lamina is shorter and wider, 

 rounded at the tip and dilated upwards, not linear acuminate. 



Pleopeltis phtmatodes, T. Moore, Ind. Fil. Ixxviii. 



Camp Via, 3100 ft. ; Camps VIII to IX and XII to XIII, 4900 to 10,500 ft. 

 Bistrib. Old World tropics. 



Pleopeltis palmata, T. Moore, Ind. Fil. 317. 



Camps VI a to VI b, 3100 to 3900 ft. ; and Camps X to XI, 0700 to 8300 ft. 

 Distrib. Malay Islands. 



Pleopeltis affinis, T. Moore, Ind. Pil. 344. 

 Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 

 Dislrib. Malay Islands. 



Drynaria rigidula, Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 314. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. 

 Distrib. Malaya, Australasia. 



Dipteris Horsfieldii, Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 321. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. ; Camp VI b, 3900 ft. 

 Distrib. Malay Islands, Polynesia. 



LoxoGRAMMB AVENiA, Baker, in Hook. Syn. Fil. 388. 

 Camps I to III, 500 to 2500 ft. 

 Distrib. Malaya. 



Antrophtum semicostatum, Blume, Enum. PI. Jav. ii. 110. 

 Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 

 Distrib. Malaya, India. 



