THE 



JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



BEITISH AND FOREIGN. 



FERNS COLLECTED IN PERAK AND PENANG 



BY MR. J. DAY. 



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By Col. R. H. Beddome, F.L.S. 



(Plate 279). 



The species marked * are new to the Malay Peninsula. 



Glekhenia glauca Hook. Penang Hill, 1500 ft. elevation. 



Cf. flageUaris Spr. Penang and Perak, sea-level. 



O. dichotoma Willd. Perak, sea-level. 



Cyathea Brunonu Wall. Penang and Perak, up to 500 ft. 



Alsophila glauca Bl. Perak, 3000 ft. 



A. commutata Mett. Perak, 5000 ft. 



-Alsophila dubia Bedd. Stipes ? ; main rachis and rachis of 

 pinnae purple-brown, slightly furfuraceous above, glabrous below ; 

 fronds subcoriaceo-membranaceous ; primary pinnae 16-20 in. 

 long, pinnate, with the apex only pinnatifid ; pinnules about 4 in. 

 long by £ in. broad on petioles 1-1£ lines long, more or less truncate at 

 the base, much acuminate at the apex, pinnatifid only about one-sixth 

 of the way to the costule, the very shallow lobes rather truncate ; 

 costules scaly below or at length glabrous, furfuraceous above ; 

 veins pinnate ; veinlets simple ; sori large, generally only in 1-2 

 rows, i.e., on the 1-2 lower veinlets only, but sometimes in 3-4 

 rows, i. e., on 3-4 veinlets and then near the base of the veinlets, 

 and consequently parallel with the primary vein, and not shaped 

 like an inverted V, as in glabra. Perak, 4000 ft. elevation. It is 

 more allied to podophylla of Hooker than to glabra, and there is a 

 specimen of it in the Kew packet of podophylla gathered by Curtis 

 in Java ; which Mr. Baker now thinks distinct from the Chinese 

 plant, PI. 279 A. 



A. latebrosa Hk. Perak, 4000-5000 ft. 



A. Kingi Clarke. Perak, 1500 ft. 



A. obscara Scortechini. Perak, on the hill called Idjo, behind 

 Taepeng, 4000-5000 ft. 



Dicksonia (Cybotiam) Baronutz Link. Perak, 1500 ft. 



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