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+ 10 utrinque, superiora integerrima, infima plerumque libéra, adnata vel 

 SLibpetioIulata, basi subtruncato-cuneata lobata, sterilia maxinia usque ad 

 l'/2 cm. longa et 5 mm. lata, fertilia iiiaxima '/a minora; venae furcatae 

 vel parce pinnatae. obliquae. Sori parvi, ad venas venulasve inframediani 

 vel in fiircis venarum positi; indusium minutum, pallide ferrugineum» 

 profunde fimbriato-ciliatum. 



Resembles at first sight a very copiously squamose form of D. vilis 

 O. Ktze, with the scales resembling finely eut shag-tobacco; spores provided 

 with reticulated wing-like crests. 



Forest; ait. 600 m. 



Ceram {Kampong Hatoeolo, L. Rutten's Explor. Commiss., Coll. Kor- 

 nassi No. 1543, 5 July 1918). 



'^' D r y o p t e r i s m u 1 1 i s e t a (Bk.), C. Chr., ind. Fil., 279 ; v. A. v. R., 

 Mal. Ferns, 203; Supplem. 1, 171; Nephrodium multisetum, Bk., in Journ. 

 of Linn. Soc , Bot., XXII, 226. 



J. A. Lôrzing's No. 5779 from Sumatra {Dell, Sibolanoit) differs trom 

 Baker's diagnosis in having the dimensions larger, the fronds of the adult 

 plant to 2'/2 m. long including the stipe, on an ascending caudex to 20 

 cm. long, with the lower pinnae to 60 cm. long. 



The collecting label bears the field note: Dryopteris multiseta C. Chr., 

 which is a gigantic form of D. setigera O. Ktze, 



Dryopteris s u b u 1 i f o 1 i a, v. A. v. R., Bull. Btz„ I9I8, XXVIII, 22. 



Stipes to 40 cm. long. Fronds to 50 cm. long and 12 cm. broad; rach- 

 is provided beneath with small, tuberculiform glands (aërophores) at the 

 bases of the pinnae. Pinnae to 6 cm. long and l'/a cm. broad. Lobes with 

 3—5 pair of veins. 



V Dryopteris p t e r o s p o r a, v. A. v. R. 



Nephrodium. — Rhizoma breviter repens; squamae ovato-lanceolatae, 

 brunneae, acutae vel acuminatae, integerrimae. Stipites + 25—50 cm. 

 longi, frondium fertilium quam sterilium longiores, auriculis minutis (pinnis 

 valde reductis), subobsoletis, alternantibus muniti, deorsum glabrescentes, 

 sursum cum rachide pilis curvatis, siibappressis, rufis hirsuto-tomentosi. 

 Frondes subdimorphae. Frondes stériles lanceolato-ovatae, + 50 cm. longae 

 et 22'/2 cm. latae, acuminatae. Pinnae herbaceae, glabrae; pinna terminalis 

 deltoidea, apicem subulato-acuminatum versus late crenulata, basin versus 

 sensim profunde pinnatifida; pinnae latérales + 15 utrinque, alternantes; 

 pinnae superiores patentes, adnatae vel sessiles, parvae, obtusae; pinnae 

 ceterae elongatae, lanceolatae; pinnae inframediales maximae, horizontales, 

 + 12'/2 cm. longae, 2 cm. latae, infra apicem longe subulato-acuminatum, 

 crenulatum Uz—^U costam versus incisae, basi plus minusve angustata 

 truncatae; pinnae infimae valde deflexae, basi postica rotundato-cuneatae; 

 Costa utrinque pallide appresso-hirsuta, basi subtus aërophora tuberculiformi, 

 parva munita; venae usque ad 4—5 utrinque, subtus parce appresso-pu- 



