SPICILIGIUM FILICUM PHILirPINENSIUM. 175 



71. Vittaria subcoriacea n. sp. 



Rhizomate uti videtur l)reviter repente, squamis tenuissimis setaceis 

 nigrofuscis 0.5 cm. longis cum foliorum l)asi dense vestito, foliis fascicu- 

 latis (ca. 8) breviter stipitatis, i. e., lamina in stipitem 3 ad 5 cm. longam 

 sensim decrescente, costa stipitis valida, lucida, castanea, sed in lamina 

 sensim applanata minusque manifesta, fronde 55 cm. longa lineari 8 mm. 

 lata acutiuscula, margine late (2 mm.) reflexo adpresso, in angulo sorum 

 1 mm. latium omnio tegente, soro margineque infra medium folium 

 incipiente et ad apicem continuo, nervis facie superiore prominentibus 

 fere longis simplicibus valde obliquis. Textura suberosa, folio sicco 

 1 mm. crasso, fragillimo, colore ad basin plantae atrocastaneo, supra 

 ochraceo-viridi, facie minute rugulosa puberula. 



Palawax, Vietoria Peak (069 Foxworihy) March, 1906, alt. 1,100 m. 



Charaeterized by beintr biittle sncculent. thick. the costa very strong, shining 

 below, Hattened and not proniinent above, tlie naked niargins broadly reflexed, 

 iinder wliich the soriferons line is conipletely hidden, nerve.s siniple, long, very 

 obliqiie. 



PLEUROGRAMME (Bl.) Presl. 



72. Pleurogramme Loheriana Christ in Biill. Herb. Boiss. H. 6 (1906) 1006. 

 LuzoN. Province of I5ataaii. Mount Mariveles (1388 CoiH^land) August, 1904; 



(127 Whitford) May, 1904; Uistrict of Lepanto, ^NIount Data (1883 Copeland) 

 Noveniber, 190,5, a form witli bifurcate pinnse. Mindanao, Province of Zam- 

 l)oanga, 8an Ramon ( 17()3 Copeland) May, 190.5; Province of Misamis, Mount 

 Malindang (4619 Mearns tG Hutchinson) May, 1906. 



It is related to 1'. pusiUa (Blume), {Vittaria falcata Kze.) difl"ering from 

 that species in liaving tlie soriferous line sunk in an exacth^ marginal groove, 

 tliat is to say, placed in the tliick tissiie of tlie leaf, so tliat it presents a border 

 of sporangia emerging from tlie groove, while in P. pusiUa the sori are arranged 

 in an intramarginal groove tliat does not reach to tlie border of the frond. 



ANTROPHYUM Kaulfuss. 



73. Antropiiyum Clementis n. sp. 



Folio elougato-hinceolato caudato in apicem et in stipitem aktum 

 sensim excurrente, cum stipite 30 cm. longa, medio hitissima ibique 

 22 mm. lata, costa flava vix 8 cm. longa mox omnino desineute, areolis 

 fere 2.5 cm. longis 2 mm. latis fere 12 in folii diametro, verticalibus, 

 soris filiformibus atrobrunneis submarginalibus (seriebus fere tribus 

 utrinque) folio medio soris destituto, longitudine vahle irregidari, ab 

 0.5 em. ad T cm. longis, verticalibus^ haud conjunctis, 2 mm. distantibus 

 non convexis sed sulco minimo faciei superioris respondentibus. Textura 

 subdiaphama herbacea, colore smaragdino, folio margine tenuissimo 

 hyali^no circumdato. 



Mixdanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley (119 :Mrs. Clemens) January, 1906, 

 alt. 660 m. 



Cliaracterized by its frond when dry being light gi-een, tlie stipe witli decurrent 

 margins, the costa ceasing at the base of the frond, the apex shar]) and elongated, 

 the tissue diphanous, the sori vertical and not joined. 



