SPICILIGIUM FILICUM PHILirPIMRNSIUM. 179 



« GLEICHENIA Smith. 



{ § Diplopterygium. ) 



On exainination of the Philippine forms of this group with the aid 

 of snrvey ii-iven hy Presl -- it is possil)le to distinguish the following fonns : 



85. Gleichenia excelsa J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 3: 420, nomen nudum ; 

 Hook. 8p. Fil. 1 : 5. Tah. .',. B; Pvesl 1. c. ;i85. 



LuzoN, Province of Benguet, Baguio (600G FAmer) ; (Loher) March, 1897. 



This species is distribiited from nortliern India to central China and Java. 

 Shillong (Clarke :3747S) ; Munipore (11'«// (Jl:39). Penang Hills (Ridley) . 

 Yunnan, Mengtze (Heiiry 91(i7); Moilim (Fghert 1897); Hongkong (Faher 

 1091); Ningpo Mountains (Fnher2U)). Java (l:<chipier) . 



86. Gleichenia glauca (Thunbg. Fl. Jap. 338, Polypodium) Hook. Sp. Fil. 

 1: 4 (Swartz Syn. 1()4, 390, Mcrtensia). 



LuzoN, Province of Tayabas. Mount Banajao (Loher) February, 1906, alt. 

 2,250 m. 



Identical with specimens from Japan excejit for a covering of reddish hairs 

 along the cost* in young phints. Tlie discover.y of tliis species in the Philippines 

 augments tlie number of sjjecies of tlie temperate regions of tlie East tliat extend 

 to the highhinds of the Pliilippines. It is on the whole rather a remarkable 

 distribution, for in this group il is the only species found in Japan, while from 

 CJhina 1 know Gleichenia excelsu, G. (/igantea Wall. (Yunnan, Delavay) and the 

 following: 



87. Gleichenia laevissima Christ in Bull. Acad. Mans. (1902) 268. 

 LuzoN, Province of iienguet, Pauai (1954 Goprlaiid) , 2,000 m. alt. 



Still another Chinese type, of whicli 1 liave specimens from Yunnan (Delavay) 

 and Lu Mount (Faher) August, 1897. 



LYGODIUM Sw. 



88. Lygodium Basilanicum n. sp. 



Axihns ochreis tennihus vix ultra 1 nnn. crassis, pinnis petiolatis, pe- 

 tiolo 3 cm. longo angustissime alato, pinna ainbitu semirotunda 12 cm. 

 longa et lata, dichotoma, partihus petiolulatis (petiolo 0.5 cm. longo 

 alato) pedatifidis, 3 aut -i-lohis, centro indiviso, 1 ad 2 cm. longo et lato, 

 lobis patulis, 9 cm. longis, G mm. latis, linearibus acuminatis integris 

 tenuissime marginatis, loho hasali deflexo, costis tenuissimis manifestis 

 rufostramineis, nervis promimilis ohliquis 2 aut 3-furcatis, confertis, lohis 

 fertilihus niedio aut infra medium suhito usque ad alam 1 mm. latam 

 contractis, sporophyllis pectinato-confertis, 2.5 mm. longis, 1 mm. latis, 

 ntrinque eirca 8 sporangia gerentihus hrunneis munitis. Textura coria- 

 cea nec papyracea, colore sicce brunneo, opaco. 



Basilan (28 DeVore et Hoover) April, 1903. 



A small species of the circinatum group, differing from L. circinatum by its 

 pinnae being dichotomous and with petioled pedately arranged ))innules, tlie 

 segments not dimorphous but narrowed and bearing the sporophylls on the upper 

 half. Dimensions of L. Japonicxim. 



--Epim. Bot., 384. 



