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the side walls of the cells are thin and the lumina dark-coloured (*). 

 Indusium elongate - oblong, hamato- recurvate with 2 + equal 

 branches but without sinus. - Plants gathered by Mr. Forbes, and 

 déterminée! by Dr. Raciborski as Aspl. pusillum, Bl. are young 

 forms of Diplazium grammitoides, Pr. See tab. I. 

 Java. 



PHlljïiSTBfc. ÊsiHlirifi. 



Pliyililôs (Scolopendrium) intei'ineclia. r. A. v. H. 



Rhizoma longum, repens, hic illic parce paleaceum, paleis 

 minutis, punctiformibus, atrobrunneis. Frondes chartaceae, sti- 

 pitatae, glabrae, vel ad stipitem et costam parce punctiformi- 

 paleaceae, lineari— lanceolatae, apicera et basin versus sensim 

 angustatae, margine irregulariter et late sed non proi'unde un- 

 dulato-crenatae, apice subcaudatae, distincte crenatae, venis liberis, 

 subpatentibus vel erecto-patentihus, simplicibus vel furcatis. Sori 

 numerosi, lati, geminati, interstitio lato, membranaceo, translucido 

 separati. 



New Guinea (Treub) — A spécimen recently gathered in said 

 island by Dr. Versteegh qnite agrées with this. It seems to be 

 intermediate between Phyllitis scolopendropsis (Asplenium Scolo- 

 pendropsis, Muell, Pap. PL, III, 49) and Phyllitis mambare 

 {Scolopendrium mambare, Bail, Queensl. Agric. Journ., III 2 , 162). 

 The rhizome and stipes are angular, pale-olivaceous like the 

 fronds, with the stipes 5—10 cm. long, the fronds + 25 — 35 

 cm. long and lVs — 2 cm. broad. The sori reach from the midrib 

 to some distance from the edge, with the interstice between 

 each 2 sori of the same pair broad, empty, thinly mem- 

 branaceous, translucent and paler in colour than the rest of the 

 frond, and the indusia not reaching each other. The philippine 

 Phyllitis schizoearpa (Scolopendrium schisocarpum, GopeL, Philipp. 

 Journ. ScL, I, Suppl., 152, tab. IX) is readily distinguished 

 from the 3 new-guinean forms by the short rhizome, the black 

 stipes and the broader fronds. 



O For the anatomical characters of the Aspleniese see J. Milde, Uébcr Athy- 

 rium. Asplenium und Verwandte, in Bot. Zeit. 1870, 329 & 345. 



