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COPELAND. 
1. Fully developed fronds bipinnate, at least at the base. 
2. Fronds 30 cm. or less high including stipe, at least bipinnate. 
3. Sori few, fronds depauperate-looking 11. T. calcarea 
3. Sori minute and numerous ; fronds ample 12. T. devexa 
2. Fully developed fronds more than 30 cm. high. 
3. Stipe and rachises black 13. T. melanocaulon 
3. Axes not ebeneous, veins forming more than 1 series of areolae. 
4. Indusia present. 
5. Stipe scaly, frond glabrous 14. T. malayensis 
5. Stipe (unless at base) smooth, frond ciliate 15. T. Christii 
4. Indusia absent (Arcypteris) 16. T. irregularis 
3. Axes hardly black; veins forming a single series of areolae ( Pleocne - 
mia) 17. T. leuzeana 
1. Tectaria Bryanti Copel. nom. nov. 
Aspidium, Copel. Perkins Fragmenta, 175 ; 1905 ; Polypod. of the 
Philippines 34, 1905. 
Negros, Copeland 82 : Basilan, IlalUcr. 
Aspidium Bolsteri Copel. (This Journal I Snppl. (1906) 252) is 
probably a very large plant of the same species. 
Mindanao, Surigao Bolster 305. The 4. Bryanti reported by Christ 
from Loher’s collection on Mount Maquiling, Luzon, is almost certainly 
different. 
Aspidium vastum Bl., a relative of T. Bryanti, with indusiate sori, is 
taken up as a Philippine fern in my Polypodiaceae of the Philippine 
Islands, but probably by mistake. J. Smith in his enumeration of Cum- 
ing’s ferns calls No. 356 Aspidium alatum Wall., which is synonymous 
with A. vastum ; but this number is cited by Hooker Sp. Fil. 4 : 48, under 
A. pteropus Kze. (=T. decurrens ) ; and the material distributed under 
this number included T. grandifolia. 
2. Tectaria decurrens (Presl) Copel. Elmer’s Leaflets, 1 (1907) 234. 
Aspidium Presl, Eel. Haenkean'ae 28, 1825; A. heterodon Copel. 
Perkin’s Fragmenta 177, 1905; A. Copelandi C. Chr. Index 661, 1906. 
This is a most variable species, if all the plants I am including in it 
are really identical. It was originally stated to have an erect caudex, 
but more recent works have described it as having a horizontal rhizome. 
As a matter of fact, we find this member horizontal, oblique or erect. 
The margin of the frond is entire or variously lobed. Fruiting speci- 
mens with simple and entire fronds occur on Mount Maquiling. Speci- 
mens in our herbaria are : 
Cuming 148, Luzon; Bolster, 146, Cagayan (Luzon); Wliitford 966, 
Elmer 7999, Mt. Banajao ; 'Meprill 1773, 4042, 5872, McGregor 133, 
Merritt F. B. 6778, Mindoro; Clemens 378, Camp Keithley, Mindanao; 
Copeland 951, 967, Dava6; Copeland 1603, Zamboanga. 
