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which are 1J-2 in. 1., |-f in. br., truncate at the base on the lower side, regularly 

 cut down throughout into distant, linear, curved pinnl. | lin. br., the lowest on 

 the upper side larger and again pinnatifid or palmate ; texture coriaceous ; colour 

 pale-green ; rachis thick, flaccid, compressed upwards ; one vein and sorus to 

 each segm., the latter marginal. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 207. 



Hab. Mauritius and Bourbon. Very near the preceding. 



168. A. (Darea) Belangeri, Kunze ; st. tufted, 4-8 in. 1., firm, erect, greenish, 

 naked ; Jr. 12-18 in. 1., 2-3 in. br., with numerous horizontal pinnce on each 

 side, 1-1 J in. 1., f in. br., rounded at the point, truncate at the base on the lower 

 side, regularly cut down throughout to a broadly-winged rachis into linear 

 erecto-patent pinnl. ^ lin. br., with their own breadth between them, the lowest 

 usually once forked ; texture coriaceous ; colour pale-green ; rachis compressed ; 

 one vein and sorus to each segm., the latter marginal. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 209. A. 

 Veitchianum, Moore. 



Hab. Malayan Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. A. Sampscmi, Hance, gathered 

 by Mr. Sampson about 100 miles west of Canton, of which our only specimen has lan- 

 ceolate fronds not more than 4 in. 1., under 1 in. br., and ovate-oblong pinnae only cut 

 down to the rachis at the base, is probably a reduced form. It has been suggested that 

 this bears the same relation to tenerum that incequale does to linealum, A. decorum, Kunze, 

 being a connecting link. 



169. A. (Darea) Thunbergii, Kunze ; st. tufted, 3-4 in. 1., firm, naked, 

 greyish ; fr. 9-15 in. 1., 3-4 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, with numerous 

 pinnce on each side, the largest 2 in. 1., 1 in. br., bluntish at the point, truncate 

 at the base on the lower side, regularly cut down throughout to a broadly- 

 winged rachis into blunt pinnls. 1 line br., the lowest larger and often again 

 pinnatifid ; texture herbaceous ; rachis compressed and flaccid upwards ; vZins 

 and sort one in each segm. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 208. A. auriculatum (Thunb.), Kuhn, 

 oldest name. 



Hab. Natal ; and a similar plant, with longer stems and narrower pinnae and pinnules, 

 was gathered by G. Mann at Fernando Po. Habit of the two preceding, but texture 

 different. Perhaps a Dareoid form of A. ej-ectum. 



170. A. (Darea) vwiparum, Presl ; st. tufted, 6-9 in. 1., firm, erect, greenish, 

 deciduously fibrillose ; fr. 1-2 ft. 1., 6-8 in. br., with numerous close-placed 

 erecto-patent pinnae on each side, which are 4-6 in. 1., 1^-2 in. br., cut down to 

 a compressed rachis into numerous pinnatifid pinnl., the lower segm. of which 

 are again forked ; ult. divisions |-f in. 1., lin. br. ; texture herbaceous ; rachis 

 firm, erect, often viviparous ; one vein to each division ; sori solitary, marginal. 

 m.Sp.Fil.3.p.215. 



Hab. Mauritius and Bourbon. 



171. A. (Darea) Novce-Caledoniae, Hk. ; st. tufted, 6-12 in. 1., firm, erect, 

 naked ; fr. 9-12 in. 1., 6-9 in. br., subdeltoid, tripinnate ; lower pinnce and pinnl. 

 deltoid ; segm. rigid, scarcely flattened, \ in. or more 1., distantly placed and 

 erecto-patent ; texture coriaceous ; rachis firm, erect ; veins solitary in each 

 segm. ; sori long, linear, marginal. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 213. Ic. PI. #.911. 



Hab. New Caledonia j gathered by C. Moore, Vieillard, and Deplanche. 



172. A. (Darea) dimorphum, Kunze ; st. 6-12 in. 1., firm, erect, naked ; fr. 

 2-3 ft. 1., 1 2-1 5 in. br., ovate-deltoid, sterile and fertile ones different or combined ; 

 lower pinnae ovate-deltoid, 6-8 in. 1., 2 in. br. ; sterile pinnl. ovate -rhomboidal, 

 1 in. or more 1., \ in. br., bluntly toothed and the base on the lower side 

 obliquely truncate; fertile ones the same size, but cut down to the rachis into 



