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and trees. When thus fallen in the forest it soon perishes 
but it is quite easily grown on fragments of tree Fern 
trunks, and readily establishes itself if planted on a tree 
which is . not too shady. It grows very well on the Oil-palm. 
A difficult epiphytic Fern to grow is the very curious 
Pleopeltis simiosa , the rhizome of which is hollow and 
tenanted by ants. Though it is often very abundant on old 
trees, it seems always to perish soon when removed even on 
a branch to the plant house. Indeed the natives say it will 
not grow on any but live trees. 
Plate I. Davallia elegans, epiphytic on the oil Palm. 
LIST OF FERNS CULTIVATED IN THE BOTANIC 
GARDENS, SINGAPORE. 
GLEICHE NIACEAE. 
Gleichekia. 
Gleichenia linear is, (Burn)., G. dktmtoma, Willd., Tropics. 
# Cyatiiea. 
Cyathea Brunonis, Wall., Malaya. 
Amphicosmia. | 
AmphicQsmia alter nans, Hook., Malaya. 
Aesophila. 
Ahophila eomosa, Hook., Indo-Malaya. , 
,, Burbidgei, Baker, Borneo. 
glabra , Hook., Indo-Malaya, China. 
,, glauca, J. Sue, Indo-Malaya. 
„ latebrosa, Hook., Indo-Malaya. 
„ Ridleyi , Baker, Singapore. 
DICKSONIEAE. 
ClBOTlUM. 
Cibothm Barometz , Link., India, Malay Isles, China. 
Hymenoph yllum. 
Hgmemphglkm Neesii. Hook., Malay Isles, Fiji. 
„ poly ant has , Sw., Indo-Malaya. 
„ Smithii , Hook., Malay Isles. 
„ dcutimlat-uw. , Sw., Malaya, 
» javankmi, Spreng, India to Australia, etc. 
TfilCHOMANES. 
T rich onianes javonkim, Bl., India, Malay Archipelago. 
rigid urn, Swartz, S. Africa, Ceylon, Malaya, 
Polynesia, S. America. 
