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developed froiids wilh the leaflets thinly herbaceous, the largest leaflets to 

 + 15 cm long, 3-foliolate witli the ultimate basai leaflets abolit lialf as 

 long, the terminal leaflets not rarely cordate at the base, and the longest 

 spikes to 1 cm. long, 



Ncphrolcpis biserrata (Sw ) SCHOTT, Gen. Fil. ad tab. 3; V. A. V. R., Mal. 

 Ferns \^2. - Aspidiiim biserratiim Sw. in SCHRAD. Journ. 1800^, 32. 



Forma typica: Pinnae not auricled, or with an undeveloped, rather 

 rudimentary aiiricle on the upper side or on both sides at the base. 



Forma abcrrans.- Pinnae sometimes provided with an exceedingly long 

 auricle on the upper side at the base. 



Java: Meester Cornelis (C. A. BacKER). 



Olcandra oblanceolata COPEL. in Philipp. Journ. Sci. VUS 64; V.A.V.R., 

 Mal. Ferns & Ail. Supplem. 1. 132. 



A duplicate of MARY StronG Clemens' No. 11053, occurring in the 

 Buitenzorg Herbarium, differs from COPELAND's diagnosis in having the 

 fronds thinly chartaceous, nearly parchment-Iike, the costa beiieath provided 

 with 2 opposite rows of very minute, horizontal, subulate-triangular, dark- 

 brown squamules, and the sori not close to the costa. 



Oleandra geniculata V. A. V. R.. Mal. Ferns & Ail. Supplem. 1, 132. 



A spécimen gathered by W. DOCTERS VAN Leeuwen (J a va, Taloen, 

 Pengalengan No. 2347) has the rhizome scandent, and the knee-tips 

 provided with 3—4 fronds (Forma plurifoliata). 



Olcandra WhitmeeiBK. injourn.of Bot. XIV, 11: V.A.V.R., Mal. Ferns 154. 



Rhizome scales partly persistent, partly deciduous, varying from yellow 

 to pale- or dark-ferrugineous, the largest finely long-acuminate, entire or 

 very obsoletely and remotely ciliolate. Stipes deciduously fibrillose and 

 squamose, as i's the costa, the scales simiiar to those of the rhizome, those 

 of the costa placed on the under side, in 2 opposite rows. Fronds ciliolated 

 with fine, short, articulakd hairs. Sori with the indusium varying from 

 yellow to ferrugineous. 



This completion is taken from spécimens received from Samoa 

 (Savai, Reinecke No. 157), Mi n d a n a o <Tod ay a, ELMER No. 11451) and 

 Sumatra (Mt. Koerintji, BiiNNEMEIjER No. 10300) -Costal scales persis- 

 tent in the Philippine and Samoan spécimens, caducous in the Sumatraii. 



Ophioglossum pumilum (RaC) V. A. V. R., Mal Ferns 774: Supplem. 

 1, 453. — O. moluccanum SCLECHT. forma piimila RAC. in Nat. Tijdschr. 

 Ned. Ind. LIX, 237, tab. Il, fig. 2—3. 



Spécimens gathered in Sepandjang Island (Kangean Archipe- 

 lago, C. A. BACKER No. 288Q0) hâve some of the bancn segments 

 more elongated, cuneate-obovate, to 2 cm. long, ^ 4 cm. broad 



