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another. For the species known only from outside Malaya are 
but 4, those from Malaya alone are 48 ; and 40 are both Malayan 
and extra-Malayan. The purely Malayan species are over half 
of the total number, or 52 per cent, as contrasted with 20 and 
27 per cent in the case of the Mountain Province and the more 
generally distributed species, respectively. 
The four species which have not been found in Malaya are 
Sphagnum japonicum Warnst., known only from the most 
northern province of Luzon and from Japan, the Philippine 
form sufficiently different from the type to be considered by 
Warnstorf as an endemic variety; Neckeropsis crinita (Griff.) 
Fleisch., found in the Province of Nueva Ecija in Luzon, and in 
Assam, Ceylon, and Tonkin; Pseudoleskeopsis decurvata (Mitt.) 
Broth., from Mount Mariveles and Japan ; and Dawsonia superha 
R. Br., from Mount Malindang in northeastern Mindanao, and 
in eastern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. 
It further appears from this, that if the line of demarcation 
of the floral provinces were artificially drawn at the latitude of 
Manila, every single species of this group from south of the line 
would have other Malayan distribution, with the sole exception 
of one known at present from the Australian region only. 
There were also four non-Malayan species among those found 
both in the Mountain Province and elsewhere. In every one of 
these, the Philippines supply the most southern known station for 
the species. In the case of Hypnodendron formosicum Card., that 
limit is Mount Canlaon, in Negros; for Trematodon drepanellus 
Besch. it is Mount Abangan, in Mindoro; for Pseudospiriden- 
topsis horrida (Mitt.) Fleisch., it is Zambales; for Dicranodon- 
tium dictycyon (Mitt.) Jaeg., Mount Banajao in Luzon. It is 
thus apparent that among all the non-endemic species, the 
Australasian representative above mentioned in the only non- 
Malayan species found in Mindanao; that only one other non- 
Malayan species has been found elsewhere than in Luzon ; 
that even if that island be included, there are only eight 
non-endemic non-Malayan species in the Philippines, except in 
the Mountain Province. Up to this point, the results are very 
definitely in accord with those found by Doctor Copeland for the 
ferns, but in the case of the latter group, there is no reversal 
of affinities in the Mountain Province as with flowering plants 
and mosses. For, in the mosses, the percentage of strictly 
Malayan non-endemic species is only 20, and while an additional 
43 per cent are found both in Malaya and elsewhere, an attempt 
has already been made to show that many of these species are 
only secondarily Malayan. At the lowest possible estimate, 37 
