NEW OR INTERESTING MALAYÂN FERNS 7. 



byCapt. C. R. W. K. van ALDERWERELT van ROSENBURaH. 



The diagnoses of the new Papuan species are provisory only ; 

 niûre detailed descriptions will be published elsewliere. 



AI«OîîiîiSti <fls«C'iaï'iî. .SW>#*/.. in Journ. of Bot., XXV, 



:i, tab. :278, flg. 



A. V. H., Mal. Ferns, 34. 



Stipes muriculato-asperuloLis, upwai'd deciduoiisly furfurace- 

 ous, downward denseh^ scaly, tlie scales somewhat crisped, rather 

 deciduous, pale, often brown-margined, copiously sen-ulate-ciliolate 

 with short, suberect, acute, dark-brown liaiis; rachises smooth, 

 above dark-tomentose, beneath probably sparingly pale-long-hairy 

 ■when young; lobes nearly straight, blunt or obliqnely subtruncate; 

 vains prominent on both sides; soi'i at length confluent, so as 

 to forra broad brown bands on each side of, and rather close to, 

 the Costa. 



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o AÊ^iOjîliita s8Biîï«l5!»<î*BBB'a. r. .1. v. fl.. tab I. 



Truncus usque ad (> m. vel plus altus. Stipites rauricato- 

 aspeiù, dense squamosi; squamae longae, subulato-lanceolatae, 

 scariosae, pallidissime stramineae, graciliter acuminatae, saepe 

 obscure brunneo-marginatae, pilis brevibus, acutis, obscure brun- 

 neis copiose serrulato ciliolatae. Frondes 3-pinnatifidae, usque ad 

 ca SO cm. latae; rachides copiose punctulato-asperulae, supra 

 obscure villoso-tomentosae, juvéniles subtus squamulis minutissimis, 

 fimbriato-stellatis, brunnei^ probabiliter furfuraceae, ab utroque 

 latere squamatae, squamis squamis stipitis similibus sed minoribus. 

 Pinnae patentes, maximae lanceolatae, usque ad 45 cm. longae, 

 10—15 cm. latae, basi paullo angustatae, apice pinnatifidae 

 acuminataeque. Pinnulae coriaceae, glabrae, horizontales vel 



