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2-3 em. articulatim insertis, anguste linearibus versus apicem attenuatis, 10-15 em. 
longis 1°50 mm. latis (8 mm. cum soris), margine inconspicue sinuoso, lamina pallida, 
venis simplicibus marginem haud attingentibus. TZeatwra chartacea. Sori globosi 
intramarginales sed ultra marginem multo eminentes, copiosissimi (90—100-jugati), 
ad lobulos minutos singulariter ad intervalla + 2 mm. dispositi, super venis simplicibus 
terminales. Jndusium nullum. . 
Hab. Manokoeari, ridge behind Manokoeari, 500’, common climbing in 
“korang” forest. Jan. 6162. “Sterile and fertile fronds.” 
This is the most remarkable fern in the collection and the most difficult 
to place systematically. It is a climbing fern with twining axis and dimor- 
phous pinnate short fronds; the stipes is non-articulate and emerges gradually 
from the axis ; the sterile pinne are sessile and articulated to the narrowly 
alate rhachis ; the fertile pinne are articulate, stipitate, very narrow, pallid, 
and fringed along each side by about 100 small prominent globose sori at 
close intervals, arising intramarginally on the apex of simple veins. Each 
sorus is subtended by an inconspicuous lobule which appears to be too small 
to cover over the youny sorus. No trace of an indusium can be found. 
The systematic position, in view of the exindusiate sori and the non- 
articulate stipes, would seem to be near to Phegopteris, though the plant 
recalls Stenochlena in its climbing habit and dimorphous fronds, and 
Nephrolepis in its articulated pinne. 
_ From Cesati’s description of his Gymnogramme pteridiformis (in Rendic. 
Accad. Soc. R. Napoli, xvi. 1877, p. 30), collected by Beccari at Andai, and 
transferred to Notochlena by J. G. Baker (in Beccari’s ‘ Malesia,’ iii. 49), 
one infers that that plant may prove to be nearly allied to the present, and 
possibly congeneric. Hitherto it has failed to find a satisfactory systematic 
position. 
STENOSEMIA AURITA Presl. 
Manokoeari, ridge above “ campong,” 500’, common in “ korang” 
forest, terrestrial. Jan. 6176. ‘Rosette habit, fertile fronds, over- 
topping sterile.” 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Andai, Beecari ; N.E.). Malay Islands. 
Solomon Islands. 
DirLazium Maximum C. Chr. 
Humboldt Bay, ridge behind “campong,” 200’, very. common under- 
growth in high forest. Jan. 6257. 
Distrib. New Guinea (N.E.; 8.E.). Asia. Polynesia. Australia. 
DipLaziuM POLYPODIOIDEs Bl. 
Schouten Islands, Bosnik, Wiak, terrestrial in forest, near beach. Jan. 
6281. 
Distrib. New Guinea (D.N.W., Arfak Mts., Beceari s ‘N.E.). Malay 
Islands. India. Australia, 
