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forming a row close to the midrib in the upper half of the frond, 

 confluent, mixed with copious hairs. 



91*. PoLYPoniuM (EupoLTPOnirM) Gilpin^, BaTcer^ n. sp. 

 Densely tufted. Stipes very short {\'\ in. long), clothed with 

 fine brown spreading hairs. Pronds simple, ligulate, obtuse, 

 1-1| in, long, \ in. broad, entire or obscurely repand, moderately 

 firm in texture, narrowed from the middle to the base, thinly 



beset with erecto-patent brown hairs \ line long. Veins distant, 4u 



simple, erecto-patent, thickened at the tip, and not reaching the 

 edge. Sori round, superficial, | line broad, median between the 

 edge and the midrib, 8-12 on a side, with usually their own breadth 

 between them. 



(EuPOLTPonirM) 



Stipe 



side of the midrib, not reaching the edge. Sori round, superficial, 

 terminal on the veins, nearly or quite marginal. 



Andran^aloaka, on trees. Very near P, repandulum and del' 

 todoUj but distinctly stipitate, with superficial marginal sori. 



212*. P* (Etjpoltpoditjm) TORrLosrar, BaTcer^ n. sp. Stipes 



tufted, wiry, l-f in. long, clothed with fine brown spreading hairs. 

 Prond lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, 1 -1^ in. broad, bipinnate, narrowed 

 from the middle to both ends, moderately firm in texture, clothed 

 with fine brown spreading hairs, which are most abundant on the 

 rachis. Pinnae narrow, linear, erecto-patent, 30-40 -jugate, broadly 

 adnate at the base, \ line broad, the upper and lower ones nearly 

 entire, the rest with broad, obtuse, adnate lobes reaching nearly 

 or quite to the midrib, which are almost truncate on the upper, and 

 long, decurrent on the lower side. Veins immersed, simple, one 

 running up each lobe. Sori round, superficial, one placed at the 

 base of each lobe close to the midrib, 12-18 to the central 

 pinnge. 



On a tree at Andrangaloaka. Allied to the rare Brazilian P. 



achillecefolium^ Kaulf. 



18*. NoTOCHLJuKA STREETiji:, Bakev^ n. sp. Stipe (incom- 



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^-f in. long, brown, wiry, flexuose, naked. Prond lanceolate, 



5-6 in. long, |-1 in. broad, nai rowed gradually to both ends, 



moderately firm in texture, glabrous, green, simply pinnate. 



Pinnae about 30-jugate, crowded, broadly adnate at the base, ^ 



linear, entire or very obscurely repand, the central ones |-"| in. 



long, -^-\ in. broad. Veins simple, erecto-patent, 6-7 on each 



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