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COPELAND. 
Dl PTE RIS Reinw. 
Dipteris conjugata (Kaulf.) Reinw. 
In thickets at 2,000 m. alt. (No. 5882). 
Common at higher altitudes throughout the Philippines. 
India to Polynesia. 
There is also in the collection an alpine form, collected on an open heath at 
2,400 m. alt., dwarfed and distinct in appearance, but sterile (No. 5881), doubtless 
the var. alpina Christ in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 6 (1906) 991. 
NEPHROLEPIS Schott. 
Nephrolepis hirsutula Presl. 
Abundant along the Alag River at 100 m. alt. (No. 5947) . 
Very common throughout the Philippines. 
Pantropic. 
Nephrolepis rufescens Presl. 
In an old clearing at 700 m. alt. (No. 5948). 
A species of doubtful status, not uncommon throughout the Philippines. 
Nephrolepis barbata Copel. 
Epiphytic in the ridge forests at 850 m. alt. (No. 5946), 
Hitherto known only from a similar situation on Mount Apo, Mindanao, and 
from central Luzon, (Loher) . 
Nephrolepis sp. near N. exaltata (L.) Schott. 
Epiphytic and on rocks at 1,000 m. alt. (No. 5945). 
A plant unlike any other known to me, with dark shining .stipe and rhachis ; 
frond pale beneath but dark above, with many lime dots, the pinnae glabrescent, 
serrulate and barbate; indusium attached by a deep sinus, submarginal; frond 
about 80 cm. long, one-fifth as wide. 
OLEANDRA Cav. 
Oleandra colubrina (Blanco) Copel. 
Semiscandent, forming dense thickets in ridge forests at 1,100 m. alt. (No. 
5937). 
Intermediate between the typical form known from Luzon and Negros and the 
variety nitida of Mindanao. 
Oleandra Whitmeei Bale. 
On mossy cliffs in ridge forests at 2,100 m. alt. (No. 5936). 
Hitherto unknown north of Mount Apo, Mindanao. 
Celebes, Samoa. 
LEUCOSTEGI A Presl. 
Leucostegia immersa Presl, var. amplissima Christ. 
On trees in the mossy forest at 1,800 m. alt., scandent, 3 m. high (No. 5939). 
Luzon, Mindanao and Celebes. 
The species in India and Malaya. 
Leucostegia hymenophylloides (Bl.) Bedd. 
Terrestrial in forests at 900 m., 1,000 m., and 1,500 m. (No. 5938). 
All previous Philippine collections are from Luzon. 
India to Polynesia. 
