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Gardens, agrées with this except the rhizome scales which are 

 dark-brown or blackish. 



Viftaria eloiig^ata. f^w,. Syn., 109, 302: v. A. v. E,., 



Mal. Ferns, 556. 



Forma late-labiata : Like the type but the fronds with the 

 base much narrowed, stipitiform, and the upper lip of the soral 

 groove much broader than the lower, twice as broad. — Ntw 

 Guinea {Humboldt Bay, Cape Toadya, Gjeherup No. 979). 



Vittarîa Copelaiiflii. t. A. r. Mi.: Y. Merrillii, Copel. 



(non Christ), p.p., Leafl. Phil. Bot.. II, 407. 



Taeniopsis.— Rhizoma repens, non caespitosum, squamis 

 longis, patentibus, capihari-subulatis, nigro-fuscis vestitum. Stipites^ 

 remoti, penduh, in sicco griseo-fusci, ca 12— 15 cm longi. Frondes 

 60 cm longae vel longiores, ^/2— 1-^/2 cm latae, hneares, basin 

 versus sensim angustatae, glabrae, opacae, in sicco griseo-fuscae, 

 flrmae, margine incrassatae, costa satis conspicua. Sori longi, 

 submarginales, dorsales, partem incrassatam marginum occupantes, 

 labiis sulcorum soriferorum crassis angustisque *). 



The description is taken from a doublet of Elmer's No. 

 9860.- Doublets of V. Merrillii Christ {Elmer'^o. 1 07 2S Mindanao 

 and No. 10165 Negros) differ from this in having the rhizome 

 scales much shorter, the sori strictly marginal, not dorsal, with 

 the lips of the soral groove relatively broad and thin *).— Near 

 V. philippinensis Christ, but the stipes not subfasciculate, and 

 the Costa not inconspicuous. 



Negros [Btimaguete, Cuernos Mis). 



Vitlasia lîiieala (L.), M'iw.. Mém. Ac. Tur., V, 421 ; 

 V. A. V. R., Mal. Ferns, 561; Pteris lineata, L., Spec, II, 1073. 



Forma angustata: Fronds narrower than in the type, ca 

 2 — 3 mm broad, short-stalked, nearly sessile; sori when young 

 protected by a narrow, elevated, extrorse outgrowth of leaf-tissue 

 (inner valve) and the broad 1 y recurved or rather reflexed edge of 

 the frond.— Java (Besiiki Residency, Koorders No. 19823 ^). 



') Examined in a saturate chloral-hydrate solution. 



