FEENS COLLECTED IN NORTH FORMOSA BY MR. WM. HANCOCK. 105 



9. Asplenium japonicum Thunb. 



67. A. M'icliHra' Mett. — Now to Formosa, but gathered by 

 Shearer m Kew-kiang. 



86. A. esculentum Presl. 



84. Aspidiiwi deltodon Baker. — Mr. Hancock's specimen quite 

 agrees with the original type collected by Maries in Central China. 



65. A. aculeattim Sw. 



61. A. amabile Blume. 



41. (29*). Aspidium (Polystichum) reductum, n. sp. — Stipes 



densely tnfted, 3-5 in. long, greenish, slightly scaly. Frond 



. . lanceolate, simply pinnate from a deltoid bipinnate base, 5-6 in. 



' long, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous on both 



surfaces. Lower pinnre one on each side, as in A. trifitcroii, ^-1 in. 



long. Central pinuffi f-J in. broad ; segments subquadrate, 



attached by the lower corner, ^ in. long, entire on the inner side 



and inner half of the lower, sharply dentate for the rest of the 



margin. Veins ascending, the central ones forked, the lowest on 



the upper side pinnate. Sori medial, in a single complete low and 



a very incomplete second one. Indusium peltate, membranous, 



glabrous. Very near A. tripteron, but on a much reduced scale. 



^"^ 14. A.falcatum Sw. 



13. Nephrodium f/racilescens Hook. 



93. N. decursivo-pinnatuin Baker. 

 ♦ 54. N. setigerum Baker. 



52. N. Filicc-mas Piich., var. 



17. (134-). Nephrodium (Lastrea) leucostipes, n. sp. — 

 Stipes 9-12 in. long, slender, whitish, densely clothed throughout, 

 as is the rachis, with spreading subulate dark brown paleae. Frond 

 y,' deltoid, tripinnatifid, 12-15 in. long, moderately firm in texture, 

 green and finely pubescent on the veins on both sides. Lower 

 pinnee much the largest, deltoid, more produced on the lower side. 

 Pinules lanceolate, the lowest fully pinnate. Tertiary segments 

 linear-oblong, entire, the largest ^-^ in. long, l-12th in. broad. 

 Veining pinnate in the tertiary segments ; veinlets distinct, simple, 

 erecto-patent. Sori costal. Indusium membranous, minute, 

 fugacious. Allied to N. intermedmm Baker. 

 ' 58, 59, 60. .V. vwlle Desv. 



90. N. sophoroides Desv. 



94. N. decurrens Baker. 



95. iV. variolosum Baker. 



43. Nephrolepis ramusa Moore. 



73. N. cordifoUa Presl. 



80. N. acuta Presl. 



4. Polypodinm [Fhegdjiteris) ili.'itdm Don. — New to China. 



50. (230-). Polypodium (Goniophlebium) formosanum, n. sp. 

 — Khizome wide-creeping, naked, glaucous, ^ in. diaui. Stipes 

 . distant, brownish, naked, about ^ ft. long. Frond oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, membranous, simply pinnate, 10-12 in. long, 3-4 in. 

 broad, green on both sides, hairy on the main veins. Pinnae 

 20-30 on a side, crowded, dilated and slightly confluent at the 

 base, those of the barren frond obtuse or subacute, I iu. broad, the 



