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ASPLENIUM Linn. 
34., Asplenium exiguum Bedd. Ferns. S. Ind. t. llfi. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Adouay (1845 Copeland) October, 1905, alt. 
900 m. ; Baguio (4887, 4860 Curran) August, 1906. 
An Asiatic type. 
I have specimens from Simla leg. Blanford, Ma,ssuri leg. Hope, Bhotan leg. 
Griffith No. 2812, Yunnan leg. Delavay and from The Nilgiris, southern India, 
leg. Gamble. It has not been found in Japan. 
35. Asplenium Elmeri n. sp. 
Rhizomate brevi radicoso, squamis castaneis subulatis eoronato stipi- 
tibus fasciculatis 7 ad 12 cm. longis cum rhachi atrorufis subintentibus, 
squamulis patentibus subulatis brunneis vestitis, rhachi in parte superiore 
sed infra apicem prolifera, fronde oblonga acuminata basi attenuata 20 
cm. longa 6 ad 8 cm. lata, bipinnata sive tripinnatifida, pinnis petiolatis, 
16 ad 20 utrinque recte patentibus remotiusculis breviter petiolatis, 
costa libera supra breviter alata, pinnis ovato-elongatis acuminatis apice 
grosse dentato lanceolate, pinnis 2 ad 3 cm. longis, 1.5 cm. latis remotis 
paucis 2 rarius 3 utrinque, petiolulatis ovato-cuneatis obtusis grosse 
dentatis 8 mm. longis 3 mm. latis, pinnula basali anteriore aucta et rhachi 
approximata, nervis in segmentis flabellato-furcatis, soris 2 aut 3 in 
segmento, lanceolatis 4 mm. latis atrobrunneis indusio griseo angusto 
persistente. Colore opaco atroviridi, textura herbacea. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Santo Tomas (6538 Elmer) June, 1904: 
District of Lepanto, Mount Data (1858 Copeland) October, 1905. 
Loher has found the same species previously on Mount Mariveles, Province of 
Bataan, Luzon, September, 1893, but his specimens are larger, 55 cm. . tall. 
Very nearly the same species is found in Celebes (1322 Sarasin) November, 
1895, but in Sarasin’s plant the segments are longer and the rachis is also 
proliferous. A small species resembling Asplenium cuneatum Lam., and A. 
praemorsum Sw., which are frequently found in herbaria under the name A. 
laserpitiifolium, and sometimes under the name A. contiguum. A good species 
characterized by its stipe and rachis being covered with scales. 
I no longer maintain as a Philippine species Asplenium nitidum, that I previ- 
ously credited to Luzon . 8 I have not seen from the Archipelago the large plant 
with long pinnules which are auricled and deeply incised such as is represented 
in Malacca, by specimens leg. Ridley and in Borneo, leg. Niewenhuis, etc. 
36. Asplenium praemorsum Sw. Prodr. 130. 
Luzon, Province. of Benguet, Pauai (Copeland) November, 1905, alt- 2,200 m. 
A small form with narrowly cuneiform segments previously found in Luzon 
by Loher. 
37. Asplenium truncatilobum (Presl) Tarachia trunctailoba Presl Epim. 
(1849) 437. Asplenium arayatense Christ Mss. 
Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat (3816, 3909 Merrill) May, 
October, 1904: Province of Laguna, Mount Maquiling (Loher) 1906: Province 
of Zambales, Mount Pinatubo (Loher) February, 1906: Province of Benguet, 
Adouay (1857 c Copeland) October, 1905. 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. (1898), 6, 153. 
