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and trees. When thus fallen in the forest it soon perishes 

 but it is quite easily grown on fragments of tree Fern 

 trunks and readily establishes itself if planted on a tree 

 which is not too shady. It grows very well on the Oil-palm. 



A difficult epiphytic Fern to grow is the very curious 

 PleopeUis sinuosa, the rhizome of which is hollow and 

 tenanted by ants. Though it is often very abundant on old 

 trees, it seems always to perish soon when removed even on 

 a branch to the plant house. Indeed the natives say it will 

 not grow on any but live trees. 



Plate I. DavalUa elegans, epiphytic on the oil Palm. 



LIST OF FERNS CULTIVATED IN THE BOTANIC 

 GARDENS, SINGAPORE. 



GLEICHENIACEAE. 



(jLEICHENIA. 



Gleichenia }irt< j <nis, (Burn)., G. dichotoma, Willd., Tropics. 



Cyathea. 



Cyathea Brunoms, Wall., Malaya. 



Amphicosmia. 

 Amphicosmick alteriiaus, Hook., Malaya. 



Alsophila. 



Alsophila comosa, Hook., Indo-Malaya. 

 „ Burbidgei, Baker, Borneo. 

 „ glabra, Hook., Indo-Malaya. China. 

 „ gtaucd, J. Sm., Indo-Malaya. 

 „ latebrosa. Hook., Indo-Malaya. 

 „ Uidleyi, Baker, Singapore. 



DICKSONIEAE. 



ClBOTIUM. 



Cibotium Barometz, Link., India, Malay Isles, China. 



Hymenophyllum. 



Hymenophyllum Neesii, Hook., Malay Isles, Fiji. 

 „ polyantlws, Sw., Indo-Malaya. 



„ Smithii, Hook., Malay Isles. 



„ denticulatum, Sw., Malaya. 



„ javanicum, Spreng, India to Australia, etc. 



Trichoma n es. 



Trichonianes javanicum, BL, India, Malay Archipelago. 



rigidum, ttwartz, S. Africa, Ceylon, Malaya, 

 Polynesia, S. America. 



