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Asplenium Wrightii Eaton. 
Dunn 3841, Lin Fa Shan. 
Already known from Japan and China. Mr. Dunn’s plant is sharply serrate, 
but not lobed. I have also an otherwise typical Japanese specimen which is not 
lobed; and Christ reports from Swatow.a merely dentate form (Ac. Geog. Bot. 
(1906) 243.) 
Asplenium adnatum Copel. sp. nov. 
Khizomate suberecto, 5 mm crasso; stipitibns confertis, 10-15 cm 
altis, nigro-castaneis, paleis 5 mm longis angustissimis subdeeicluis sparse 
vestitis; fronde 15-20 cm alta, ca. 3 cm lata, pinnata; rhachi supra 
viride unilineata, infra deorsum ut stipite ; pinnis oblongis horizontalibus 
vel superioribus adscendentibus, rotundatis, apices versus obscure dentatis, 
late adnatis sed plerisque rliachin versus angustatis, (infimis aequalibus 
subdistantibus exceptis) ala connexis, supremis coadunatis, coriaceis, 
supra glabris, infra pallidis puberulis ; venis subflabellatis, inconspicuis ; 
soris paucis, longis, obliquis. 
Tai Mo Shan, S. China, 800 m. s. m. inter saxa granitica. Matthew 3. 
A member of the group of A. crinicaule Ilance, well characterized by the adnate, 
and throughout the most of the frond coalescing, very obtuse pinnae. 
Woodwardia Kempii Copel. sp. nov. 
Species Woodwardiae Harlandi affinis, fronde sterile ignota, fertile 
20 cm alta, 15 cm lata, bipinnatifida, subcoriacea, glabra; segmentis 1 
infimis liberis vel sequentibus ala angusta connexis, subfalcatis late 
oblanceolatis ; segmentis u infimis utroque latere reductis et remotis, supra 
mediam partem segmenti primae ordinis maximis, usque ad 3 cm longis, 
ca. 5 mm latis, falcatis sinu exsculpto separatis, apicem versus serrulatis ; 
venulis laxe anastomosantibus : soris et ad rhaehidem alatam frondis, et 
ad costas segmentorum 1 inter ramum et ramum continuis, et ad costas 
segmentorum 11 interruptis fere ad apicem attingentibus. 
Kwangtung, Kemp. 
Distinguished from W. Harlandi by the long-lobed segments, and the row of 
sori practically the whole length of the racliis. Mr. Kemp’s collection includes 
also W. japonica (L. f.) Smith, and W. orientalis var. prolifera, hitherto known 
from Formosa, the Riu Kin, and Batanes Islands. 
Adiantum Capillus-Veneris L. 
Dr. Matthew’s collection contains three ferns very distinct in appearance, and 
none typical A. Gapillus Veneris, but all for the present more safely referred 
here than held separate. No. 23 is a shallowly cut form, smaller than A. refraction 
Christ. No. 21 is a large specimen of the deeply cut form “B” of Species Filicum. 
No. 22 is a large form, the stipe 30 cm and the lamina 40 cm long, which tallies 
with Vaccari’s Italian “forma giganteum.” 
Plagiogyria adnata ( 131. ) Bedd. 
Dunn 3936 is a form with broad, short segments, with sinuses dilated and of 
about the usual width, the stipe and rachis 4-angled. The species is known in 
China only from Yunnan and Kouy Cheou and the identification of this is not 
positive. 
