CONTRIBUTIONS 



TO THE 



FERN-FLORA OF BORiN KO 



IJY 



W. BURCK. 



Mr. Teusclier, who in the course of the yeaT paid a visit to 

 Borneo in order to enrich the European hot-houses with some 

 new and interesting plants made on our demand and with the 

 Governments authority for the sake of our botanical Garden 

 and Museum a collection of living and dried plants ; the latter 

 containing a series of sixty Ferns. 



Wliile arranging and working out Mr. Teuscher's plants I 

 was happy en ough to find another small collection of about 

 40 Ferns made in the years 1875 and 76 by the late Mr. Teys- 

 mann in the same part of the island and in the adjacent group 

 of the Karimata-Islands , a collection which by various circum- 

 stances had been overlooked. Although our knowledge of the 

 Borneo Fern-Flora has been considerably extended during the 

 last years by the beautiful collections made b}^ Mr. Beccari, 

 the unwearied explorer of our Indian Archipelago and descri- 

 bed by Baron Cesati ') and that of Mr. Burbidge worked out 



1) Felci e specie nei gruppi affini raccolte a Borneo dal Signer Odoardo Beccari. 

 Memoria di Vincenzo Cesati. Napoli 1876. 



