Asi '1 1 1 1 K.i-: — N 1 : 1 ■ 1 1 K< II ii r M . 25 



often inibricatf, with ovate or olilon^' pinnatifiil scymcnts witli rmuidt'd 

 lobes, lifiljaci'ous, pale green, puliescenl lieiiealli as is (lie lacliis; soii 

 copious; iiuUisiuiu larj^e, pale, villous. 



Cagayaii-Luzoii, W'dtbur;/ 12205; Benguet, Loher, Elmer (J48U, G5i).); 

 Arayat, Lohcr. 



Cape \'ei<le {.-.hiiuls to (. liiiia. 



(23) N. recedens (.1. bin.i Hooker. Khizoine wide-creeping; stipe 

 about 30 cm. iiigli, erect, villous, soft, clothed at the base with squarrose, 

 linear .scales; frond 40 to 00 cm. high, 30 cm. or more broad, deltoid; 

 lower pinniv much the largest, 15 to 30 cm. long, 10 to 15 cm. broad; 

 pinnules of tlii' lower side the largest, sometimes 15 cm. long, 5 cm. 

 broad, with distinct, one-sided lanceolate segments with close, slightly 

 toothed linear-oblong lobes, firm, nearly glabrous; rachiscs villous; sori 

 small, to 8 around the margin of the larger lobes. 



Luzon, Cuming 96. 



Ceylon and southern India. 



(24) N. hirtum (Presl.), non Hooker, irond deltoid, decompound, 30 

 cm. long; rachises clothed with copious appressed, linear, brown palese; 

 lower piiuia? the largest, deltoid, the lower side the more developed; 

 central pinna^ oblong-lanceolate; final segments oblong, entire, 2 mm. l)road, 

 moderately firm, glabrous; veinlets few, erecto-patent; sori medial. 



"Philippines." Haetike. 



(25) N. dissectum (Forst.) Desv. Stipes tufted, 30 cm. or more 

 high, railier slender, glossy, clothed toward the base with linear, dark 

 brown scales; frond 30 to 150 cm. high, 30 to 100 cm. broad, deltoid; 

 lower pinniie varying from simply pinnatifid, with broad obtuse lobes, 

 to 30 cm. long, with similar pinnatifid pimiules, the center usually uncut 

 for a breadth of 1 cm., and the uncut obtuse or acute ultimate divisions 

 equally broad, papyraceo-herbaceous, bright green, nearly glabrous; sori 

 copious, generally submarginal ; indusium flat, 1 nun. or more broad. 



Luzon, Cuming 30, 24fl. 

 ^ladagascar to Polynesia. 



(26) N. intermedium (Bl.) Baker. Stipe 30 to GO cm. high, stout, 

 erect, densely clothed at the base with long, bright brown, silky fibrils; 

 frond CO to 100 cm. high, 30 to 50 cm. broad, subdeltoid; lower pinme 

 lanceolate, often 30 cm. long, 10 cm. broad; pinnules close, lanceolate, 

 witli distinct oblong-lanceolate segments with ligulate, subentire lobes 

 about 2 mm. broad, herbaceous, firm, glabrous or slightly scaly on the 

 midribs; sori small, copious, nearer the veins than the margin; indusium 

 thin, fugacious. 



Benguet and Rizal, Loher. 

 Ceylon to Jajiiin. 



(27) N. asperulum (J. Sm.). Stipe firm, terete, brownish, pubescent; 

 frond 40 to GO cm. high, 30 cm. or more broad; lower pinna* 15 to 25 cm. 

 long, 5 to 8 cm. broad; pinnules lanceolate, 1 cm. broad, oblique; cut 

 down to the rachis below into oblique, oblong, pinnatifid segments, sub- 



