The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. XI, No. 1, January, 1916. 
MISCELLANEOUS NEW FERNS 
By Edwin Bingham Copeland 1 
(From the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, 
Los Banos, P. I.) 
ATHYRIUM RIDLEY1 Copel. sp. nov. 
Filix insignis gregis A. Swartzii (Bl.) Copel.; rhachi inerme, 
in sulcis minute pilosa; pinnis alternantibus, stipitatis, brevi- 
falcato-acuminatis, basi truncatis, deorsum grosse crenato-ser- 
ratis dentibus obtusis vel rotundatis, fere 40 cm longis, plusquam 
10 cm latis; venulis 10-12 paribus, irregulariter anastomosan- 
tibus et medio inter venas areolas plures steriles includentibus ; 
indusio angustissimo. 
Pahang, Ridley 13970 . 
Javan ferns referable to Athyrium accedens or A. Swartzii rarely have 
additional areolae, included between the regular rows, but are never ample 
in a measure comparable to this fern. Digrammaria robusta Fee, treated 
by Van Alderwerelt and Christensen as included in Diplazium proliferum, 
was described by Fee from Bourbon material as generically distinct 
because only the lowest veins unite. 
M ICROLEPIA RIDLEYI Copel. sp. nov. 
Fronde grande, bipinnata, rhachibus sub lente minute pubes- 
centibus; pinnis ca. 70 cm longis, fere 20 cm latis, brevistipitatis, 
acuminatis; pinnulis subsessilibus, basibus perobliquis, acumi- 
natis, apicibus rectis vel subfalcatis, inciso-crenatis, costa 
deorsum indusiisque puberulentibus, aliter glabris, membrana- 
ceis; lobis ca. 8 mm latis, truncatis, integris vel crenulatis; venis 
inconspicuis ; soris in lobo magno basale acroscopico pluribus, 
aliter infra incisiones solitariis; indusio semicyathiforme. 
Perak, Ridley U200. 
Different from Microlepia platyphylla (Don) J. Sm. in texture, incon- 
spicuous veins, hairy indusia, and most essentially in the form of the 
indusium. Don’s diagnosis of Davallia platyphylla is too brief to permit 
certain discrimination. Hooker 2 describes D. lonchitidea Wall, as iden- 
tical with it; his figure is that of a fern very similar to M. Ridleyi, with 
sessile pinnules, while the text says “primary and secondary pinnules 
much petioled.” I believe that both names, platyphylla and lonchitidea, 
1 Dean of the College of Agriculture, and professor of plant physiology, 
University of the Philippines. 
2 Sp. Fil. 1 : 173. 
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