FILICES. 
SUB-ORDER І. GLEICHENIACEAE. 
GLEICHENIA. (Gen. ii Syn. Fil. p. 11.) 
Gleichenia circinata, Sw. (Syn. Fil. ii, 3.) Mt. Kinabalu, Mr. 
F. W. Bur 
urbidge, 5,000-6,000 ft. and Dr. G. D. Haviland, 
10,500 ft. 
Distribution: From Australia and New Zealand to Malac- 
ca and the Philippines. 
var. borneensis, Baker in Jour. Bot. 1879, p. 37. Mt. 
Kinabalu, Mr. F. W. Burbidge 
G. djs ссн longissima ВІ. (вун Fil. ii. 7.) — G. glanca 
oker, the oldest пате. Mt. Dulit and Mt. Matang. 
Swat not under 2,500 ft. though elsewhere in 
Malaya it is found at a much lower elevation. 
Distribution: China, Japan, Malaya, West Indies. 
тыт arachnoides Мей. (Syn. Fil. 1. sd — "ies bullata, 
e. Mt. Kinabalu, 7000 ft. Sir Hugh Lo 
G. ' Mert.) sp. Large, tripinnatifid, stem and rachises covered 
> 
with broad acuminated brown scales having whitish car- 
eue eal um es, the crossing of which on the surface 
produces а apan nce that may be called ** cobwebby.” 
Pinnae 18 in. long, 4-5 ue wide, oblong-lanceolate. 
Secondary pinnae 2-24 in. |, 4 in. wide, cut down nearly 
to the rachis into oblong blunt segments, with margins 
Mop recurved. Sori covered by the large spreading 
cales. 
А single specimen in the Sarawak Museum contributed 
by Dr. G. D. Haviland from Mt. Kinabalu, 8,000 ft. His 
number 1950. If thisis the G. arachnoides Hk. from this 
