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COPELAND. 
Anisogonium elegans Presl. 
In humid forests at 200 m. alt. (No. 5912). We have the same fern from 
Mindanao, Surigao, leg. Bolster. 
Unless my specimens are erroneously determined, Christensen has combined 
more than one species under Diplasium fraxinifolium Presl. 
DIPLAZIOPSIS Christensen. 
Diplaziopsis javanica (Bl.) C. Chr. 
In damp ravines at 1,400 m. alt. (No. 5923). 
Hitherto known in the Philippines only from Mount Apo, Mindanao. 
India to Polynesia. 
BLECHNUM Linn. 
Bl echnum orientale Linn. 
In an old clearing at 700 m. alt. (No. 5908). 
Throughout the Philippines. 
India to Australia and Polynesia. 
Blechnum egregium Copel. 
In the ridge forests at 450 m. alt. (No. 5907), variable in the reduction of 
the fertile pinnae. 
Known also from Mount Maquiling and Mount Banajao, Luzon, and from 
Mindanao. 
Blechnum Patersoni (Spreng.) Mett. 
On boulders and cliffs in dense forests at 1,800 m. alt. (No. 5905). 
At similar altitudes throughout the Archipelago. 
Luzon to Tasmania. 
Blechnum vestitum (Bl.) Kuhn. 
On exposed ridge in forests at 1,300 m. alt., in similar situations at 1,800 and 
2,100 m. alt., and in the mossy brush at 2,500 m. alt. (Nos. 5903, 5904). A more 
rigid, dwarfed form in the open heath at 2,400 m. alt. (No. 5902). A much 
more rigid form grows at an altitude of 2,400 m., on Mount Apo, Mindanao. 
Malaya. 
Blechnum Fraseri (Cunn.) Luerss., var. philippinensis Christ. 
In the mossy ridge forest at 2,100 m., and at 2,550 m. alt. (No. 590.6). The 
“trunk” at most 1 m. high. 
Already known from similar altitudes in Luzon. 
The species in New Zealand. 
ASPLENIUM Linn. 
Asplenium (Thamnopteris) cymbifolium Christ in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 6 
(1906) 999. 
• Species nidiformis, frondibus sessilibus, 100-120 cm. longis, 15-20 
cm. latis, abrupte brevissime candatis, sub mediam frondem paullo 
angustata, baseos versus aequalibus vel paullo dilatatis 12-15 cm. latis, 
brunneis chartaceis humiferis, aliter subcoriaceis, glabris; costa supra 
deorsum concava sursum subtusque rotundata nee usquam acuta, nigra; 
