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LIBRA!^Y 



BOTANiCAL 



THE PHILIPPINE Qari^^en 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



C. BOTANY 



VoL. II JUXE, 1907 No. 3 



SPICILIGIUM FILICUM PHILIPPINENSIUM NOVARUM AUT 

 IMPERFECTE COGNITARUM. 



By H.^ CpBiST. 

 ( Basel, Switzerland. ) 



In the collections of Philippine ferns sent me by Elmcv D. MerriU, 

 Botanist, of the Bnreau of Science, and by Dr. E. B. Copeland, which have 

 increased in an unexpected manner since the year 1903, I have distin- 

 guished very many forms not considered by Dr. Copeland in his papers on 

 Philippine ferns,^ and which are not included in my two works on the 

 fern flora of the Archipelago.- 



At the request of Mr. Merrill, 1 have prepared a list for publication in 

 The Philippine Journal of Science, eontaining the diagnoses of those 

 species that appear to me to be undescribed, and observations on others 

 which for one reason or another are of special interest. I wish to express 

 my sincere thanks to Messrs. Lolier, CopeJand and Merrill for having 

 with great lil)erality supplied me with the rich material that has enabled 

 me to undertake this work. 



Cuming's collection is the l^asis of our knowledge of the pteridophyte 

 flora of the Philippines, and of which J. Smith^ published a list of 

 species, however, unfortunatcly, containing many almost noniina nuda. 



^Ferns, in Perk. Frafj. Fl. Pliilip. (190.5) 175-194; Polypocliace:e of the Pliilip- 

 pine Islands, Govt. Lab. Fnbl. 28 (1905) 7-138; New Pliilippine Ferns. This 

 Joumal 1 (1906) Suppl. 143-166; New Philippine Ferns, II, l. c. 251-257; A New 

 22 Polypodiiim and Two Xew Varieties, Elmer's Leaflets Philip. Bot. (1906) 78, 79. 

 (^ 'Filices Insularum Philippinarum, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6 (1898) 127-154; 189- 



^ 210;II. i. c. 6 (1906) 987-1011. 



' 'Enumeratio Filicum Philippinarum in Lojjd. Joiini. Bo^ 3 (1841) 392-422. 



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