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trees. The rhizome is sometimes (especially in Celebes) used as 
ship-rope. 
Tropical Asia^ Australia, Pohjnesia. 
Section III. 
-|- No. 1. Pferi!« qiiiidriaiirifa. var.fir&eiila, 
(366); ? Pt. argyraea, Moore, Gard. Chron. i 85.9, 671; P^. öfaMnYa, 
i., var., C. Chr. Ind. Fil., 593. — A very beautiful ornamental 
plant. Terrestrial. 
Hah.^. 
-j- No 2. Pol.vpodiiiiii perisicifoliiiiii (618.) — 
Epiphytical, but sometimes also terrestrial. 
Sumatra, Java, Gelebes, Philippines. 
+ No. 3. Pteris Ciirevilleana. MVall., var. oriiala. 
(364). — A beautiful terrestrial fern, readily distinguished from 
Pt. quadriauritd, Retz, var. argentea by its 1— 2-jugate pinnae 
and very indistinct venation. Imported from; 
Borneo. 
H- No. 4. Hiflyiiioclilaeiia liiiiiilafa (170); 
Adiantum lunulatum, Houtt., Nat. Hist., XIV, 209; D. truncatula, 
J. Sm., .loLirn. of Bot., IV, 196. — Terrestrial. 
Pantropical. 
/ -f No. 5. Taeiiifi** l»lec*liiioifle!<. ^w., (563); Pteris 
hlechnoides, Willd., Phyt., 13. — Terrestrial. 
Tropical Asia, Fiji. 
m 
-f- No. 6. fpleielieilia laevitt'ala. ËMk„ (59); Mertensia 
laevigata, Wüld., Spec., V, 75. —Terrestrial. 
Malaya. 
-j- No. 7. A«i|iifliiiiii pei^orireriim, (251).— 
Terrestrial. This plant quite agrees with Copeland’s diagnosis, 
except that both barren and fertile pinnae are + twice as broad. 
The specimen has been received from Borneo. — Copeland now 
