ASI'I.KNIK.i: — ASIT.KNUM. 83 



t!i(* l)as<', oimcatc hclou, t runcato-ciiiK'atc above; veins oblique, usually 

 I'dikiil, conspicuous, sori larj!;e, close to tin- miiliili :iiiil rfucliinfj; half way 

 to tlio iuar;,'in. 



Davao, .MiiKhiiuio, mi lucky licil ol .Sil)uliiii l!i\iT, alliludr, 7UU m., 

 Copcliind !)S:{. 



The a|>c\ i>f fi'itilr fioinU often wanting.'. 



(20) A. hirtum Kaulf. Stipes tufted. ."> to 10 cm. hi;;ii. stron;^, erect, 

 brownisli, clrriiUmu^ly tibiillose; froml 'M) to 00 em. long, 10 to 20 cm. 

 broail, with very numerous liorizontal pinna' mi each .side, which are 

 5 to 8 cm. hniu, 1 cm. bruad. aeumiiuite, broadly not deeply tootiied, the 

 base on llw iip|ier side cmispieuously aurieled, on the lower side rather 

 suddenly but obli(|uely narrowed; texture coriaceous; rachis dark colored, 

 strong, iiion- or less tibrillose; veins oblique (Syn. l-'il. says inconspicuous; 

 Diels says evident I ; soii in two regular rows, wliicli f.ill cnn-iiderably 

 short of the edge. 



Mount Mariveles, Merrill 3700, Barnes; Mount Ai'ayat, Merrill 3810, 

 Toppinii ; southern T>u/on. Bfinnuhi ; Moiuit Apo, DeT'orc and Hoover 310. 



Madagascar to Polynesia. 



A. hirtum Kaulf. var. repressum C'o|)eland. Dill'ers from the type in 

 being smaller, less than 2i) cm. high, almost sessile, and having obtuse 

 pinna>. 



Mount Mariveles, 1,200 ni.. on exposed ridges, Merrill 3212. 



A allien ill III nieyenicniUDi Presl, Epim. Bot. p. 73, said to differ from 

 .1. hi rill III in the serration of the pinnse and the form of the pubescence 

 is probably not really separable from it. 



Manila. Meiim. f'lnniiifj 147. 



(21) A. anisodontum Presl. Stipes tufted, firm, erect, gray, naked 

 or slightly fibrillose; t'mnil llo to 43 cm. long, 10 to 15 cm. broad, with 

 numerous horizontal or subfalcate sessile pinna? on each side, which are 

 5 to 8 cm. long. 1 cm. broad, acuminate, inciso-crenate, the base on the 

 upper side aurieled and narrowed ratlier ol)liquely, on the lower side 

 obliquely truncate; ti^xture subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, erect; veins oblique, 

 mostly once branched; sori parallel, in two regular rows, reaching nearly 

 from the midrib to the edge. 



Luzon, Cinniiig 128. 



Java. 



No. 334 of DeVore and Hoover, from ]Mount Apo (but from no such 

 altitude as their label states) may be .1. anisodonlum, but is serrate, 

 not crenate; many pinnae have a free lobe in the place of an auricle, as 

 A. Steerei is described. 



(22) A. macrophyllum Swartz. Stipes tufted, 15 to 30 cm. high, stout, 

 erect, browiii>li. nearly naked; frond 15 to 45 em. long, 15 to 30 cm. 

 broad, with to 12 opposite pairs of stalked nearly horizontal pinnie, 

 which are 10 to 20 cm. long, 3 to 8 cm. broad, acuminate, sharply serrate, 

 the two sides nearly equal, but the lower one narrowed rather more 

 obliquely; texture subcoriaceous; rachis naked, firm, erect; veins very 

 obli(iue; sori in close long parallel lines reaching from the midrib nearly 

 fo the marj'in. 



