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OLEA1DKA. Car. 



OlraiMlra cuepiflata. #£#.. Becc, Malesia, III, 44. 



A spécimen recently received from New Guinea lias the 

 rhizome scales provided with a subulate, strongly deflexed, deci- 

 duous apex. The fronds are + 25 — 30 cm. long, +4 — 5 cm. 

 broad, hairy on the veins. Indusium very fngacions. — This might 

 be a form of 0. colubrina, Copel, var. memferawacea (Copel., Philipp, 

 Journ. Soi., III e , 32). 



New Guinea. 



XEPII KO IJEPIN. *<hoit. 



.\eiiiiroie|Hs Oa va Elias r. A. r. I*. 



Stipites +15 cm. longi, cmn rachide griseo-brunnei et de- 

 cidue furfuracei, paleis fuscis, crispis, fibrillosis. Frondes + 50 

 cm. longae, apicem et basin versus angustatae, sed basin versus 

 minus conspicue (pinnis intimis + reductis sed haud auriculi- 

 formibus). Pinnœ remotse, numerosse, glabrse, coriacea?, patentis- 

 simae, falcatse, petiolulatae; pinnœ maximaè + 4 cm. longae, basi 

 + 5 — (3 m. m. latse et rotundato-truncatœ, basin versus intégras 

 vel leviter «non profunde) crenatae, apicem versus angustatae, pro- 

 fundius crenatae vel denticulatae vel (in pinnis fertilibus) + clentato- 

 lobatae, crenis vel dentibus sterilibus obtusiusculis, fertilibus ob- 

 liquis, truncatis ; pinnae inferiores stériles, superiores fertiles, venis 

 obliquis, 2 — 3-furcatis. Sori in apicibus crenarum vel dentium 

 solitarii, supra leviter prominentes, apices venularum 2 vel 3 

 conjungentes vel interdum in apicem venularum solitarii, indusiis, 

 more Davalliae, semiorbicularibus, ad apicem truncatum solum 

 liberis. — 



This species recently received from New Guinea has the 

 rhizome short, stoloniferous, clothed with bright-brown, subulate 

 scales. Stipes 4 — 6, approximate. The al'linity is with N. dick- 

 sonioides & lindsayae, Christ ; sori roundish, uniting the apices of 

 the 2 — 3 fork branches of the veins, rarely solitary on the vein 

 tips, slightly immersed and prominent on the upper surface ; indusia 

 brown, semiorbicular, attached at the rounded base and sides, 

 free at the truncate apex, opening outwardly. 



