TAB. LXXVIII. 



Gymnopteris (Leptochilus) minor, Hook. 



Parva, caudice repente crassitie pennse anserina? apice squa- 

 moso, stipitibus remotis gracilibus filifornribus, frondibus 

 sterilibus membranaceis oblongis lato-lanceolatisve costatis 

 in stipitem 2-2 \ uncias longum attenuatis, venis anastomo- 

 santibus angulato-areolatis, areolis appendiculatis prope 

 margin em minoribus, venulis ultimis clavatis liberis ; fron- 

 dibus fertilibus biuncialibus linearibus in stipitem quatuor 

 uncias longum attenuatis. 



Leptochilus minor, Fee, Acrost. p. 87, t. 25, f. 87 (excl. the 

 synonym, of Gymnopteris normalis, J. Sm.) 



Hab. Subtropical region, Khasia, near Churra, elev. 2-3000' 

 feet ; Hook. fil. et Thomson. Isle of Samar, Phillipines, 

 Cuming, n. 326 (according to Fee). 



That this is the Leptochilus minor of F^e, there can be no 

 doubt ; and that author seems to have taken his figure from 

 Cuming's Phillipine Island plant, n. 326 (the only locality 

 he gives for the species), and he quotes J. Smith's Gymnop- 

 teris normalis, a name, without description unfortunately, to 

 Cuming's n. 326; but that number in my Herbarium has 

 quite, or nearly quite, sessile sterile fronds, whereas Fee's 

 plaut he figures and describes "frondibus sterilibus longe 

 petiolatis :" so that it would appear that two species have 

 been distributed by Mr. Cuming under the same number. 

 The present one is remarkable for its small size, and the 

 great comparative length and slenderness of the stipites ; 

 especially of the fertile ones. 



Tab. LXXVIII. Plants of Gymnopteris minor, Hook.; 

 natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile frond; and/*. 2. 

 Portion of a fertile frond ; magnified. 



Cisl. 2. I. 78, 



