I. WOODSIE^E. 



Stipe not articulate to the rhizome; sorus dorsal on its vein; indusium 

 fastened beneath the sorus on all sides, rupturing irregularly over it. 



(1) DIACALPE Blume. 



Rhizome erect; fronds large, tripinnate; veins free; sorus usually one 

 to each segment, on the lowest acropetal veinlet; indusium spherical. 

 Two terrestrial ferns, in this part of the world. 



(1) D. aspidioides Blume. Stipes clustered, erect, 40 cm. high, scaly at 

 the base ; frond 25 to 50 cm. high, triangular-ovate ; pinnules oblong-cuneate, 

 lobed and more or less decurrent, submembranaceous, glabrescent, or 

 sparsely chaffy on the veins, disposed to blacken in drying. 



Mountains of Benguet and Lepanto, not below 2,000 m., Loher. 



India, southern China, and Malaya. 

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