ON THREE NEW CHINESE CALAMI. 263 
_ Woodwardia japonica, Sw 
Asplenium Oldhami, Han nee ?—Apparently belonging to this obscure 
A. fur i 
y the case with the furcatum group. My gies eae recog- 
nised as a true species by Metteni a and Kuhn, but referr 
dimidiatum by Mr. vets won Dace pinne became laciniated, be 
scarcely distinguishable A. furea um; and many other apeies 
am either aiesether i or x a impossible to characteri 
any precisi 
Asplenium ee Thunb. 
petien faleatum, Sw. 
m erythrosorum, Eaton.—I have stated elsewhere my con- 
Viction that neither nor A. varium, Sw., are specifically distinct 
from A. Filix-mas 
Aspidium Ps ie , Sw 
Aspidium consifolium, Wall.—United with the preceding by” 1 
Moore, Mettenius, Sir W. Hooker, and Baker is, however, 
perfectly constant bo. ie characters, and I cannot think but that it is 
distinct. In this view, and against so formidable a phalanx of oppo- 
ang “il wow ee am happy to find myself supported by the high 
authority of Dr. Thwai 
spdium Boryanum, Willd.—Found in Bourbon, the mountains 
of the Indian continent, and Java, but not previously collected in 
ei estes well with a Mishmi specimen of Griffith’s in my 
Aspidi ium decursive-pinnatum, Kze 
seen ans glanduligerum, Kze. —The Polynesian ra inadvertently 
nam ies Beneal forvns by the late Prof. Met pe oe in 
k.k. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. in Wien, hp = 577), will 
Gleichenia An ac Hook. 
Lygodium m flexuosum, ‘Sw. ?—Similar to a Philippine Island speci- 
men in my herbarium. I do not profess to understand the species of 
cult genus, and their circumscription and synonymy are 
ery differently given by Mr. Baker in the “Synopsis Filicum,” and 
by Dr. Kuhn n (Miquel Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., iv., 297). 
Selaginella flabellata, Spring. 
ON THREE NEW CHINESE CALAUML. 
By H. F. Hance, Pu.D., ere. 
Ma. stated in the ‘‘Flora Hongkongensis,” on my 
authority, that that there are pa Calami natives of the island. 4 
cess 
Last year, however, Capt. Walker, of H. M. ae 
Kegiment, Brigade Major, a most energetic explorer, was so kind as to 
