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or double, the width of the lobe; indusium inflated; texture moderately 

 firm; color yellowish, stipe stramineous. 



Baguio, Loher 56. 



Habit of a small and simple form of L. viridis Col. 



(13) L. capillacea Christ, Bull. Herb. Bois. 6(1898):144. Rhizome 

 filiform, creeping and intertwined; stipe 15 mm. long, filiform, fuscescent, 

 rachis green; frond 1 dm. long, 1 cm. wide, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 weak, -flaccid, subbipinnate; pinnae alternate, 5 mm. long, oblong-triangular, 

 lower edge entire with costa close to it, upper edge incised almost or quite 

 to the costa into 3 or 4 erect segments which are linear, narrowed upward, 

 the lower segments forked; sori small, terminating the segments, flanked 

 on each side by acute teeth. 



Maquiling, 600 to 1,000 m.; Loher 57; Baguio, Elmer 6020. 

 The dissected sterile fronds adventive on old rhizomes of L. pectinata 

 resemble this plant. 



(14) L. Lancea (L.) Christ (L. trapeziformis Dry.). Rhizome short- 

 creeping; stipe strong, erect, 14 cm. long, green except at base; frond 10 

 to 20 cm. long, with a long entire point and 1 to 4 pairs of rather rigidly 

 erecto-patent branches, pinna? (pinnules) about 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. deep, 

 the lower line nearly straight or curved downwards, the upper rounded, 

 entire, closely placed, but scarcely imbricate; texture pellucido-herbaceous; 

 sori in a continuous line below the upper margin. 



Xegros, Gimogon River, Copeland 66; Davao, Loher 52. 

 Tropical America, Ceylon, Malay region. 



(15) L. rigida J. Sm. Rhizome wide-cree'ping ; stipe 10 to 15 cm. high, 

 rigid, erect, prickly towards the base; frond with a long unbranched central 

 point and 1 to 4 pairs of flexuose lateral branches, 10 to 20 cm. long; 

 pinnules 6 to 8 mm. broad, 4 mm. deep, the lower edge often falcate, 

 the upper three or four times bluntly, not deeply lobed, placed close 

 together but not imbricated; texture very thick and coriaceous; veins 

 prominent; sori in a marginal line on the lobes. 



Davao, Loher 55; Luzon, Baranda 20. 

 Malay Peninsula. 



The color of the mature frond is sepia brown, and the pale veins stand 

 out from the groundwork in relief. 



(16) L. triquetra (Baker) Christ (L. tenuifolia Bl.). Rhizome 

 creeping, fibrillose; stipe strong, erect, 10 to 15 cm. high; frond with 

 2 to 7 pairs of pinnae and a terminal one; lateral pinnae spreading, with 

 subrigid rachises, 10 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. broad; pinnules cut down on 

 the upper side into narrow simple or forked linear segments well toward 

 the nearly straight costa; texture pellucido-herbaceous, both surfaces naked; 

 sori small, terminal on the segments; indusium suborbicular. 



Leyte, Cuming 309; Davao, .Loher 58. 

 Java to Samoa. 



(17) L. blumeana (Hk.). Rhizome creeping; stipe 10 to 15 cm. high, 

 strong, erect; frond 20 to 30 cm. long, 15 to 20 cm. broad, bipinnate; 

 pinnae rigid, erecto-patent, 10 to 15 cm. long, 1 cm. broad; pinnules thinly 

 herbaceous, cut down on the upper side into very slender filiform simple 



