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CHRIST. 
HEMIGRAMMA nov. gen. 
Foliis rosulatis simplicibus aut irregulariter pinnatipartitis, climorphis, 
soriferis contractis, nervatione sagenioidea, i. e., pinnata, inter nervos 
laterales multifarie areolata, nervnlis liberis inclusis, soris lineatis ramosis 
nervos anastomosantes sequentibus, ipsisque irregulariter anastomosan- 
tibus et reticulatis. 
57. Hemigramma Zollingeri (S. Kurz) Hemionitis Zollingeri S. Kurz in 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 3 9 : 2 90. t. 5. 
I believe that some of the specimens on which Dr. Copeland based his new 
species, Hemionitis gymnopteroidea 13 should be referred to Hemigramma Zolling- 
eri. Copeland states that his species can be distinguished from H. Zollingeri by 
the copious free veinlets in the sterile frond. In my specimens of the species 
from Batavia, Java, ex Herb. Hort. Bot. Bogor., and from Celebes, leg. Sarasin, the 
veinlets are also very numerous, even as Kurts himself shows in the figure cited 
above; moreover the constantly contracted fertile fronds of Hemionitis gymnopter- 
oidea are not a peculiarity of that species, as in my specimens from Montalban, 
leg. Loher, they are 1 cm. wide and present the oblique lozenge-shaped soriferous 
bodies as do the specimens from Java. 
Var. mqjor (Copel) Hemionitis gymnopteroidea forma major Copel. 1. c. 
Ehizomate crasso obliquo rudimentis stipitum tecto, foliis f asciculatis 
paucis (3 ad 4) stipitibus, basi incrassatis usque ad 16 cm. longis basi 
squamis subulato-setiformibus patentibus nigris usque ad 1 cm. longis 
dense barbato, caeterum parcius sparso, lamina sterili 20 ad 25 cm. 
longa saepe basi aequilata, interdum simplice ovato-acuminata medio 7 
cm. lata repanda aut obtuse lobata, saepius profunde pinnatifida aut 
basi pinnata, valde irregulariter lobata, apice aucto et elongato usque 
ad 8 cm. lata, pinnis usque ad 3 utrinque, ovatis repandis acutis aut 
obtusis, pinnis basalibus saepe postice cordatis, omnibus ala plus minus 
lata junctis, fronde saepe decurrente, lamina fertili valde contracta, 8 cm. 
longa, 4 cm. lata, 2 pinnis utrinque 5 cm. longis 3 mm. latis et apice 
irregulariter lobato, nervis lateralibus 12 ad 15 utrinque pro pinna, 
patentibus, rectiusculis, manifestis, fere ad marginem protensis, ca. 5 
areolas rectangulas includentibus, quae nervulorum reti nec non nervulis 
crebris liberis furcatis repletae sunt, pinnis soriferis irregularibus, spo- 
rangiorum nervulos sequentibus fulvis tectis. Textura herbacea mem- 
branacea, fere diaphana, colore laete virente, opaca. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River (2124 Borden ) December, 1904: 
Province of Rizal, Montalban (Loher) September’ 1891. Mindanao, Province of 
Zamboanga, San Ramon (1780 Copeland ) May, 1905. 
It does not form a nearly sessile rosette like the species, but the leaves are 
fascicled and stipitate and the sterile fronds, like the fertile ones, are' pinnatifid 
and even pinnate. The size is much larger. 
This form imitates strangely Leptochilus lat'ifolius (Meyen) (Gymnopteris 
taccaefolia J. Sm.) in the protean variation of the fronds and in, its habit. 
Normally to rate the large plant as a variety would not be comprehensible, from 
13 Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1905) 183. 
