SPICILIGIUM FILICUM PIIILIPPINKNSIUM. 
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GLEICH EN I A Smith. 
(§ Diplopterygium.) 
On examination of the Philippine forms of this group with the aid 
of survey given by Presl 22 it is possible to distinguish the following forms : 
85. Gleichenia excelsa J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 3: 420, nomen nudum; 
Hook. Sp. Fil. 1 : 5. Tab. J,. B; Presl 1. c. 385. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio (6006 Elmer) ; ( Loher ) March, 1897. 
This species is distributed from northern India to central China and Java. 
Shillong (Clarice 37478); Munipore ( Watt 6139). Penang Hills (Ridley). 
Yunnan, Mengtze (Henry 9167); Moilim (Egbert 1897); Hongkong (Faber 
1091) ; Ningpo Mountains (Faber 219). Java (Echijfner). 
86. Gleichenia glauca (Thunbg. FI. Jap. 338, Polypodium) Hook. Sp. Fil. 
1 : 4 (Swartz Syn. 164, 390, Mertensia) . 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Banajao (Loher) February, 1906, alt. 
2,250 m. 
Identical with specimens from Japan except for a covering of reddish hairs 
along the costae in young plants. The discovery of this species in the Philippines 
augments the number of species of the temperate regions of the East that extend 
to the highlands of the Philippines. It is on the whole rather a remarkable 
distribution, for in this group it is the only species found in Japan, while from 
China I know Gleichenia excelsa, G. gigantea Wall. (Yunnan, Delavay) and the 
following : 
87. Gleichenia laevissima Christ in Bull. Acad. Mans. (1902) 268. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai (1954 Copeland), 2,000 m. alt. 
Still another Chinese type, of which I have specimens from Yunnan (Delavay) 
and Lu Mount (Faber) August, 1897. 
LYGODIUM Sw. 
88. Lygodium Basilanicum n. sp. 
Axibus ochreis tenuibus vix ultra 1 mm. crassis, pinnis petiolatis, pe- 
tiolo 3 cm. longo angustissime alato, pinna ambitu semirotunda 12 cm. 
longa et lata, dichotoma, partibus petiolulatis (petiolo 0.5 cm. longo 
alato) pedatifidis, 3 aut 4-lobis, centro indiviso, 1 ad 2 cm. longo et lato, 
lobis patulis, 9 cm. longis, 6 mm. latis, linearibus acuminatis integris 
tenuissime marginatis, lobo basali deflexo, costis tenuissimis manifestis 
rufostramineis, nervis prominulis obliquis 2 aut 3-furcatis, confertis, lobis 
fertilibus medio aut infra medium subito usque ad alam 1- mm. latam 
contractis, sporophyllis pectinato-confertis, 2.5 mm. longis, 1 mm. latis, 
utrinque circa 8 sporangia gerentibus brunneis munitis. Textura coria- 
cea nec papyracea, colore sicce brunneo, opaco. 
Basil an (28 DeVore et Hoover) April, 1903. 
A small species of the circinatum group, differing from L. circinatum by its 
pinnae being dichotomous and with petioled pedately arranged pinnules, the 
segments not dimorphous but narrowed and bearing the sporophylls on the upper 
half. Dimensions of L. Japonicum. 
Epirn. Bot., 384. 
