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simple except in the lowermost pinnulae which hâve the veins forked to 

 sparingly pinnate in the ultimate lobules, as in D. intermedia O. Ktze. 



Dryopteris paleata, Copel., in Philipp. Journ., IX*^. 228; v.A.v.R., 

 Mai. Ferns & Ail., Supplem. I, 152. 



Naar D. Hallieri C C^r. — Stipe and rachis tomentose and scaly; 

 tomentum consisting of crowded, crisped, ferrugineous hairs; scales crowded, 

 squarrose, subulate, brown, deciduously ciliate, leaving the stipe and rachis 

 tuberculato-asperous when they fall, those of the upper part of the rachis 

 more scattered and smaller than the others. Pinnae to 30 cm. long and 4 

 cm. broad, the fertile ones narrower than the barren, the lobes ciliate; 

 under surface minutely and deciduously puberulous between the veins ; 

 costae hairy on both sides, the hairs of the upper side placed in 2 parallel 

 rows separated a groove, those of the under side irregularly crowded; veins 

 above naked, beneath hairy and glandular, the hairs pale, more or less 

 persistent, the glands scattered, very minute, globose, red-brown; lowest 

 veins often meeting at or be\ovj the sinus. Sori numerous, inframedial on 

 the veins; capsules intermixed with crowded, globose, brown, stalked 

 paraphyses; spores provided with reticulated, wing-like crests; indusium 

 persistent, densely, shortly puberulous. — Copeland's diagnosis completed 

 after recently received fragments of C. J. Brook's original spécimens. 



Sumatra. 



Dryopteris Beddomei (Bk.), 0. Ktze, Rev. Gen. PI., Il, 812; 

 v.A.v.R., Mal. Ferns, 291; Supplem. I, 159; Nephrodium Beddomei, Bk., Syn. 

 Fil., 267; Lastrea gracilescens, Bedd., Ferns S. I., 38, tab. CX. 



According to Beddome's description quoted above this species has 

 a short, thick, scaleless, copiously rooting rhizome. — Bûnnemeijer's No. 

 2816 from Sumatra (Mt. Singo^alang) has, according to the descriptions of 

 other authors, a wide-creeping, sleiider rhizome, which is indeed scaleless 

 but provided with densely crowded, deciduous, ferrugineous, wooUy hairs 

 similar to those of the roots. 



Dryopteris microcarpa, v. A. v. R. 



Lastrea. ~Rh\zom3. ascendens vel longe repens, glabrescens. Stipites 

 approximati vel remoti, pinnis reductis exclusis, 5—20 cm. longi, in sicco 

 straminei vel pallide brunnei, glabri. Frondes lineari-obovato-lanceolatae, 

 30—60 cm. longae, 5—10 cm. latae. acuminatae; rachis cum costis supra cristis 

 2 paulio elevatis, pallide pubescentibus munita, subtus copiose sed non 

 dense pilosa. pilis pallidis, relative longis; pilis rachidis deciduis, costarum 

 persistentibus. Pinnae copiosae, herbaceae; pinnae supramediales maximae, 

 approximatae vel remotae, saepe subfalcatae, 272 — 5 cm. longae, a basi ^/4— 

 172 cm. latam apicem obtusiuculum vel acutum versus sensim angustatae, 

 profunde pinnatipartitae; pinnae plures inferiores sensim magis remotae et 

 minores, infimae perparvae. Segmenta glabra, patentia, approximata, lineari- 

 oblonga, ala costali angustissima connata, obtusa, superiora integerrima vel 



