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THE FERNS OF BORNEO. 
A. glabra, Hk. (Syn. Fil. vi. 58.) Mr. F. C. Burbidge, recorded 
M. 
by Baker in Jour. Bot. 1879, p. 38, but with a(?). Habi- 
tat not specitied. 
Distribution: Malay Peninsula and Islands. China and 
throughout India. 
. vecans, Cesati in Fil. Becc. Born. p. 4. Found by Beccari, 
Sarawak, 1865. Baker says he cannot separate it from 
A. glabra Hooker. 
= 
. dubia, Beddome in Jour. Bot. 1888, p. 1. Tab. 279% Baker 
in Ferns discovered since 1874 says it has been found in 
Borneo, but does not give habitat or collector’s name. I 
have in my collection a single pinna of a fern collected in 
the Natuna Islands by Mr. A. H. Everett which is like 
A. dubia, but the specimen is too incomplete for positive 
identification. 
. latebrosa, Hooker (Syn. Fil. vi. 59.) Common in Sarawak up 
to 2,000 ft. 
Distribution: Almost throughout India. proper, Malaya, 
Formosa, etc. 
. Wallacei, Mett. (Syn Fil. p. 450.) Habitat “ Borneo, (Wal- 
lace.”) I know nothing of this Fern beyond the notice 
of it in the Synopsis Filicum referred to. 
. Burbidget, Baker in Jour. Bot. 1879. p. 38. To the descrip- 
tion there this addition should be made; Stipes 2 ft. or 
more long, having a dense fringe of brown lanceolate 
scales, 4 in. long by 1 1. broad, along the under surface, 
extending to beyond the lowest pinne; the upper surface 
armed with minute prickles. Mt. Matang Sarawak, 500 
to 800 ft.and the Baram River. Mr. Burbidge’s speci- 
mens came from North Borneo. 
MATONIA (Gen. viii. Syn. Fil.) 
pectinata, Br. (Syn. Fil. viii. 1.) Mt. Matang and Mt. Santu- 
bong, Sarawak, 2,500 to 3,000 ft. It has lately been 
found at a low elevation on the Carimon Islands near 
