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reduced lower pinnae, shorter hairs on the rachis, decidedly finer and closer 
pubescence on the nether surface, and less ornate indusia. 
Mr. Topping remarks that he regards this as the most strikingly beau- 
tiful fern he has collected. 
TECTARIA Cavanilles 
TECTARIA MURUDENSIS sp. nov. 
Sagenia, Nephrodio ternato Baker, Syn. Fil. 296, affinis, in 
alas pinnarum glandulifera; rhizomate repente, 5 mm crasso; 
stipite 35 ad 40 cm alto, fusco, deorsum sordide adpresso-paleato, 
sursum frondeque glabris; fronde ternata, pinnis elliptico-lan- 
ceolatis, valde caudatis, integris; pinna apicale stipitata, usque 
ad 30 cm longa et 8 cm lata, basi cuneata; pinnis lateralibus 
sessilibus, paullo minoribus, subcultratis, ad pedem quaeque 
glandula squamulosa conspicua praditis, papyraceis; venis con- 
spicuis, patentibus, marginem fere attingentibus et ibidem cur- 
vatis; soris plerisque apud venis seriatis, nec carent alii irre- 
gulariter adspersi; indusio sat persistente, reniforme, lobis 
interdum imbricatis, parvo. 
Sarawak, foot of Mount Murud, native collector 2905 (type), 2945 
(Bur. Sci.). 
This differs from Tectaria ternata, of which I have an apparently typical 
specimen, in color of stipe and veins, rather firmer texture, more divergent 
veins, cuneate base of central segment, and in the conspicuous “glands.” 
The latter probably are very dwarfed buds, and suggest affinity to proliferous 
species. They are uniform on the three fronds in hand. T. subcaudata 
(v. A. v. R.) is described as having a distinctly different rhizome, and 
fugacious indusia. 
ATHYRIUM Roth 
ATHYRIUM CLEMENSIAE sp. nov. 
A. gregis A. nigripedis, A. Sarasinorum et A. philippinensi 
simile, quibus praecipue fronde compacta pinnis imbricatis sti- 
pite rhachique carnosis distinctum; caudice breve, suberecto, 
valido, radicibus paleisque immerso, paleis badiis vel castaneis, 
linearibus; stipite plantae typicalis alpestris 5 ad 8 cm alto, ad 
pedem dense paleato, alibi paleis angustis ca. 5 mm longis sparsis 
ornato, sursum glabrescente ; fronde ovata, 5 ad 8 cm alta, bipin- 
nata; pinnis brevi-stipitatis, anguste ovatis, obtusis, utroque 
latere 7 ad 10, deorsum accrescentibus; pinnulis paucis, oblongis 
vel ellipticis, obtusis, infimis stipitulatis incisis, plerisque con- 
fluentibus, crenatis; soris lineari-oblongis, vel late oblongis; in- 
dusiis asplenioideis rarius forma typica Athyrii, interdum dipla- 
zioideis vel reniformibus, neque carent indusia formis aliis, e. g. 
Acrophori et Leucostegiae. 
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