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often truncate, the pinna: strongly elongated into a Aliform apex, the apex of the 
frond rather pinnatiAd and terminated by one pinna, the stipe having- generally 
one or two pairs of auricles. I shall content myself with indicating here the 
characters by which it differs from Dryopteris basilaris : . 
Basi stipitis squamis destitutis aut minutis brevibus, stipite gracili 
sed pinnis infimis abbreviates, et stipite auricula una, rarius pluribus 
instructa, flavostramineo, fronde acuminato apice pinnatifida minus 
abrupte terminata pinnis remotioribus inferioribus mediisque horizonta- 
libus, oppositis, basi antice et postice dilatatis quasi utrinque stipulatis, 
lobis brevioribus apice truncato-obtusis sive abruptis et denticulatis, tex- 
tura diaphano-tenui, nervis plerumque 5, soris ochraceis, indusio tenuis- 
simo mox evanido, colore dilute smaragdino. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso (1083 Ramos) July, 1906; (89 Foxworthy) 
January, 1906; Antipolo (Guerrero) June, 1903; (Loher) March, 1906, March, 
1893: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles (1239 Borden) June, 1904: Province 
of Cavite, Mendez Nunez (1289, 1302 Mangubat) August, 1906: Province of 
Laguna, Los Banos (Loher) January, 1906; Mount Maquiling (Loher) January, 
1906; Pagsanjan (1995a Copeland) February, 1906; (514 Topping) 1904: Prov- 
ince of Batangas, Mount Malarayat (2002 Copeland) February, 1906: Province 
of Cagayan (120 Bolster) July, 1905: Manila (Rothdauscher) 1897 in Herb. 
Monac: Province of Isabela, Malunu (11577 Warburg) . 
Var. puberula n. var. 
Rhachi costis et nervis puberulis. ' 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Tabug (175 Bolster) August, 1905. 
Var. poiyotis n. var. 
Pinnis latioribus, basi 16 mm., brevius acuminatis, et stipite usque ad 
basin auriculis numerosis (ca. 20 utrinque) vestitis. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Montalban (5064 Merrill) March, 1906. Mindanao, 
Province of Zamboanga, San Ramon (1571 Copeland) December, 1904. 
15. Dryopteris parasitica (Linn.) O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. 2 (1891) 811. 
Polypodium parasiticum Linn. ^p. PI. (1753) 1090. 
Luzon, without locality (83 Cuming) “Nephrodium molle R. Br.” J. Sm. in 
Hook. Journ. Bot. 3 (1841) 412. Province of Rizal, Bosoboso (1084 Ramos) 
July, 1906: Province of Tayabas, Malicboi (Ritchie) May, 1903 ; Atimonan 
(8 Gregory) August, 19.04: Province of Laguna, Pagsanjan, (1995 Copeland) 
February, 1906. Mindanao, Province of Zamboanga (1605 Copeland) 1905: 
District of Davao (607 Copeland) March, 1904. Palawan (Paragua) Ewiig 
River (720 Merrill) February, 1903. 
Tropics of both hemispheres. 
Var. falcatula n. var. 
Differt a typo pinnis inferioribus oppositis, refractis, basi antice sti- 
pulatis, segmentisque profundius incisis falcatis acutioribus, aliter typo 
conformis. An Nephrodium molliusculum Wall. Cat. ? 
Mindanao, Province of Zamboanga (1677 Copela/nd) 1905. 
