Year of Publication: 1935, Vol. 08 (02) (The Gardens' Bulletin, Straits Settlements)

Date Published 26 January 1935

Year of Publication: 1934, Vol. 07 (03) (The Gardens' Bulletin, Straits Settlements)

Date Published 01 June 1934
Christensen, Carl. and Holttum, R.E. 
The Ferns of Mount Kinabalu 
Abstract:
The present paper contains an account of all ferns known to have been collected on Mount Kinabalu, with the exception of the latest Clemens collections. The occasion from its preparation is the recent collections made on the mountain by the present writer and by the Clemens expedition (still in the field); these include a large number of previously unrecorded species. At the time of my visit to Kinabalu, Dr. Carl Christensen has for some time past been intending to work out a critical review of all Bornean ferns, and had examined a large number of type specimens; he had also examined almost all previous Kinabalu collections. He was therefore the person best fitted to deal with the new material, and kindly consented to work over my collections, a complete set of which were sent to him.  Subsequently I undertook to sort over the Clemens fern collections, which I named in comparison with my own material; the determination of the Clemens collections of the higher numbers (from 26,000 upwards) is therefore due to me, with exception of some critical specimens referred to Dr. Christensen.  The publication of an account of the Clemens collection, which adds a number of species to the total, is made possible by the consent of the Keeper of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History), and Mr. Clemens, to whom I tender my best thanks. The greater part of the critical and descriptive section of this paper is due to Dr. Christensen. In some cases, with more ample material for examination, and my observations of plants in the field, I have added critical notes myself, and four new species are described by me. All such cases bear my name or initials. Any field notes contained in the general list are also written by me, but are not initialled. In this paper are also described a few ferns collected in other parts of British North Borneo (chiefly in the neighbourhood of Sandakan) by Mr. C. Boden Kloss in1927.  Specimens collected by me at Kudat, and also collections from Sarawak and elsewhere by Dr. E. Mjoberg and others, examined by Dr. Christensen, are in some cases also cited as examples of the species concerned and as records of distribution. The total number of species, from Kinabalu and its foothills, here enumerated is 417, the new collections accounting for about half of this figure. Of these, 30 are described as new species; in addition, Asplenium Klossii from Sandakan is described. The new species and new combinations are indicated in distinctive type in  the index at the end of this paper.

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