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Cyclopeltis latupana, v.A.v.R., in Bull. Btz., 1914, XIV, 5; Mai. 

 Ferns & All., Supplem. I, 138. 



it may be possible that this species is identical with C. semicordata /. Sm. 

 but I think it not probable since the latter seems to be exclusively Americ- 

 an. Beddome's plate XXXV of Polystichum semicordatum (Moore ?J in Ferns 

 Br, 1., 1, agrees much more with C. latupana than with Mettenius' des- 

 cription of Aspidium semicordatum Sw. in Farng., IV, Phegopt. & Aspid., 

 36, Diels' fig. 96a in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.fam., 1* and Christ's fig. 

 735 in Farnkr. d. Erde. 



Cyclophorus Beddomeanus (Gies.), C. Chr., Ind. Fil., 198 (not v.A.v.R., 

 Mal. Ferns, 695); Niphobolus Beddomeanus, Gies., Niph., 101. 



This species does not occur in Malaya, except when Copeland's 

 determination of Borneo plants [Saraw. Mus. Journ., 11 (III), 410] is correct. 

 The plants cultivated in the Buitenzorg Gardens (introduced from New 

 Guinea, most of which were determined by Raciborski and others as Poly- 

 podium stigmosum Sw.) and those gathered in Ceram and New Guinea, 

 originally considered by me as C. Beddomeanus, do not agree with the 

 anatomic characters given by Giesenhagen; they resemble very much a 

 specimen of C. splendens C. Chr. received from the Philippines {Mindanao, 

 Elmer No. 13579) and one of them bears on its label the note: 



Polyp. (Niph.) Stigmosum Sw. or Splendens Hk. 

 Characters of both mixed. 

 Humboldtsbay, Nov. Guinea. 



Cyclophorus splendens (J. Sm.), C. Chr., Ind. Fil., 201; v.A.v.R., 

 Mal. Ferns, 696; Niphobolus splendens, J. Sm. in Journ. of Bot., Ill, 396. 



Plants from Ceram and New Guinea, partly occurring in the Buitenzorg 

 Herbarium, partly cultivated in the Buitenzorg Gardens, differ from this 

 species only in having the fronds varying from subsessile to moderately 

 long-stalked with the stipes subdeltoid in transversal section, i.e. flat or 

 more commonly distinctly concave (canaliculate) above and keeled beneath; 

 the young fronds, especially those of the young plants, have the short- 

 branched stellate hairs of the under surface provided with a long, caducous, 

 erected central branch. Some of the fronds have very distinct palisade cells 

 which I now consider as a less valuable characteristic. A much more 

 valuable characteristic is the shape of the epidermal cells of the upper 

 surface, which have the side walls flat or but slightly undulated in C. 

 Beddomeanus and conspicuously undulated in C. splendens and in the 

 Ceram and New Guinea specimens quoted above. 



Cystopteris tenuifolia, v.A.v.R.; C. tenuisecta, Mett., in Ann. Mus. 

 Bot. L. B., I. 241, forma? 



Rhizoma probabiliter breve, squamis lanceolato-subulatis, palide fuscis, 



