TAB. LXXVIII. 
Gymnopteris (Leptochilus) MINOR, Ilook . 
p arV£lj caudice repente crassitie penn® anserine apice squa- 
moso, stipitibus remotis gracilibus filiformibus, frondibus 
sterilibus membranaceis oblongis lato-lanceolatisve costatis 
in stipitem 2-2J uncias longum attenuates, venis anastomo- 
santibus angulato-areolatis, areolis appendiculatis prope 
maro-inem 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 (ex cl. 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 Fee, 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 
plant 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 , Ilook. ; 
natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile frond; and/. 2. 
Portion of a fertile frond ; magnified. 
Cint, 2. I, 78. 
