821 
FERNS COLLECTED IN PERAK BY FATHER 
SCORTECHINI. 
By Cox. R. H. Beppome, F.L.S. 
(Puare 278). 
h 
has now carefully gone through them, and prepared the following 
list. The speci referred to are nearly all in the British Museum 
erbarium. The species marked * have not been previously 
recorded from the Malay Peninsula.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
Gleichenia dicarpa Br. var. 8. *G. flagellaris Spr. 
vulcanica Bl. G. dichotoma Willd. 
G. Norrisii Mett. Cyathea Brunonis Wall. 
sharply serrated scales ; 4-5 ft. long, 2 ft. broad, bipinnate ; 
rachis sealy above, naked beneath; pinnzw, the middle ones about 
1-1} ft. by 8-6 in., diminishing in size towards both ends ; rachis 
rtion 0 
form hairs.” (Plate 278, fig. 2). 
A, glabra Hook. A. glauca J. Sm. : 
A, delebic: Vieek: A. Kingi Clarke (= Bakeri Zeil- 
A. latebrosa Hook. var. with very _ ler). : 
broadsegments. Thisis closely A. commutata Mett. 
allied to 4. sikkimensis Clarke. aa 
*Alsophila trichodesma (Scort.).— ‘Trunk middle size, 
slender ; stipes scaly at the base; fronds 4-6 ft. long, bipinnate; 
rachis scabrid above, clothed with adpressed s semi-viscouS 
- Journat or Borany.—Vor. 25. [Nov.,1887.] 
