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CLiliformibus, remotis, in frondem sensim transeuntibu« muniti. 

 Frondes lanceolatae, pinnis reductis exclusis ca 20- 40 cm longae, 

 acLiQiinatae, basin versus sensim angustatae. Pinnae numerosae, 

 subcontiguae, plus minusve patentes, firmiter herbaceae, medi- 

 anae maximae, ca 4 — 8 cm longae, apice acuminatae subinteger- 

 rimaeque, margine 1/2 ^^1 costam incisae, basi ca 1 - II/4 cm 

 latae et truncato-cuneatae. Lobi numerosi, subpatentes, subfalcati, 

 subacuti, ca 2 mm lati, infimi quam ceteri saepe paullo longiores; 

 costulae pinnatae; venae utrinque 4 — 5, simplices, 1-2 infimae 

 anastomosantes Sori parvi, mediales; indusium deciduum. 



The plant bas been determined originally as Nephrodium 

 hispidulum Bk. 



New Guinea {Finschhafen, Lauterbach No. 68). 



I>r.yo|>teris |)erakeiisi§ (Bk.), C\ Cht\. Ind. Fil., 



284: V. A. V. R., Mal. Ferns, 226; Nephrodium perakense, Bk., 

 Journ. of Bot., XXVI, 4. 



Var. sUiiiaf reiisî*s : Frondes minores, usque ad ca 30 

 cm longae; pinnae firmiter herbaceae, minus profunde lobatae, 

 supra ad et inter venas brevi-pilosae, subtus ad costulas, venas 

 marginesque longe pilosae, inter venas brevi-pilosae; pinnae 

 inferiores relative sensim reductae, infimae valde minutae; sori 

 mediales; sporangia brevi-pilosa. — Sumatra [Padang Panjang, 

 C. G. Matthew No. 51()). 



Oryopteiis siiiiiatraiia. r. A, r. H,. Mal. Ferns, 

 227 ; Nephrodium molle, R. Br., vaf. major, Bedd., Handb. Ind. 

 Ferns, Suppl., 76. 



Very common in the Malay Peninsula. — A spécimen gath- 

 ered in Perak [Gopeng, C. G-. Matthew No. 524) is in the 

 Buitenzorg Herbarium. 



CFleielienîa oppo«iita. r. A. r. ti. 



Mertensia, Dicranop)teris. — Gi\eichenme Norrisii Mett. affinis. 

 Frondes furcatae, pinnis (ramis primariis) leviter flexuosis, usque 

 ad ca 5.0 cm longis, pinnatis, apice furcatis. Pinnulae (rami secundarii 

 latérales et apicales) remotae, foliaceae, oppositae vel suboppositae, 

 lineari-lanceolatae, ca 20 — 25 cm longae, 2 — 5 cm latae, apicem^ 

 versus angustatae, profunde pinnatifidae, rectae vel ascendenti- 

 arcuatae; pinnulae apicales superiores et centrales ascendentes, 



