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the study of dried plants alone, without the evidence given by Copeland, and the 
absolute identity of the venation, tissue and its general structure. It is a 
striking example of the strange and luxuriant forms found in the Philippines. 
Leptochilus latifolius is distinguishable from our plant by its firm texture, 
not diaphanous, its color, black when dry, its proliferous fronds and its areolse 
supplied with a network of very irregular nerves. 
Diel’s procedure in placing Hemionitis Zollingeri in Syngramme is to me an 
unnatural arrangment. The ancestry ‘ of the plant is rather in the Aspidieae, 
analagous to Stenosemia, and accordingly the above new generic name is proposed 
for it. 
CON IOGRAM M E Fee. 
58. Coniogramme fraxinea (Don.) Diels in Nat. Pflanzenfam. I 4 (1899) 
262. Diplazium fraxmeum Don Prodr. FI. Nepal. (1825) 12. 
This genus is in need of revision and contains a plurality of forms which 
doubtless can be studied with better results in the field than in the herbarium. 
.In addition to the ordinary form with bi- to tri-pinate fronds which are membra- 
nous and serrate, Copeland 14 indicates, without name, another one that usually 
has entire and simply pinnate fronds. This latter form is very close to one found 
in China that I have described as the variety spinulosa 15 but the Philippine 
form is larger and with nearly entire margins, and I call it : 
Var. Copelandi n. var. 
Mindanao, Province of Zamboanga, San Ramon (1746 Copeland) April, 1905. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Mabacal ( Loher ) March, 1906. The same plant, but 
denticulate, has been found in Benguet Province, Baguio (6032 Elmer) March, 
1904. 
LINDSAYA Dry. 
59. Lindsaya falcata Dry. Trans. Linn. Soc. 3 (1797) 41. t. 7. f. 2. 
Negros, Gimagaan River (66 Copeland) January, 1904; (1568 Whitford) 
May, 1906. 
The above specimens agree exactly with material from tropical America. It 
is rather remarkable that this species, like Lindsaya lancea (Linn.) Bedd., should 
be found in tropical America and again in the orient. 
PTERIS Linn. 
60. Pteris quadriaurita Retz. Obs. 6: 38. 
Stipite cum rhaelii plerumque glabro, stramineo,...segmentis oblongis, 
basi coirjunctis, nervis liberis, subtus manifestis, textura herbacea, colore 
laete virente. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal (111 Foxworthy) January, 1906; Mabacal [Loher) 
March, 1906: Province of Zambales, Mount Pinatubo (Loher) February, 1906: 
Province of Bataan, Lamao River (239, 240 Copeland) February, 1904: Province 
of Union, Bauang (5619 Elmer) February, 1904. 
The above specimens represent the typical form of this polymorphous species, 
being membranous in texture, the nerves manifest on the lower surface and not 
united, the segments oblong united at the base, the stipe and rachis generally 
smooth. The numerous derived forms of this group which are found in the 
Philippines can be grouped as follows : 
14 Govt. Lab. Publ. 28 (1905) 67. 
15 Bull. Soc. Bot. France (1905) 52,55. 
