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of the ultimate branchlets similar to those of the rachis but smaller, 

 sparingly denticulate, entire at the base, the outer base cordate-rotundate, 

 produced, the inner base cuneate-rotundate, with the cusp 'A as long as 

 the blade. Spikes 4 — 10 mm. long, 2 mm. diam. ; sporophylla subiso- 

 morphous, deltoid-ovate, very shortly aristate-acuminate, pellucid-margined 

 in the lower half, piloso-denticulate, ciliate at the base, the largest TA 

 mm. long; macrospores yellowish-white, provided with short or elongate, 

 straight, flexuose, branched or connected rumples on the basal side, the 

 apical ribs encircled by an equatorial wing-shaped crest; microspores 

 minium-red or yellowish, provided with shortly stipitate-capitate and very 

 minutely punctiform or rugiform projections. 

 Luzon. 



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Shoots 20 — 35 cm. long, the lower part simple, stipitiform, yellowish- 

 grey, compressed-quadrangular, to VU mm. thick, the upper part sub- 

 3-pinnate, ovate or subrotundate in outline; ultimate branchlets 3 — 4 

 mm. broad including the lateral leaves. Leaves heteromorphous ; lateral 

 leaves of the stipe erect, very unequal-sided, oblique-ovate, shortly 

 acuminate, both sides minutely denticulate towards the apex, ciliate 

 towards the subauriculate-cordate base, the largest leaves 2Vs mm. long, 

 IVj mm. broad; those of the main rachis spreading, obliquely subfalcate- 

 ovate-oblong, subauriculate on the upper side at the base, truncate- 

 rotundate at the lower base, indistinctly spuriously veined, the upper 

 side piloso-denticulate in the upper half, pellucid-margined, gradually ciliate 

 towards the base, the lower edge denticulate at the apex, ciliate at the 

 base, the largest leaves 4V2 mm. long, 2 mm. broad; those of the branches 

 similar, of the branchlets the smallest, r/2 — 2 mm. long, Vi mm. broad, 

 close, distinctly pellucid-margined on the upper side; intermedial leaves 

 erect; of the stipe obliquely deltoid-ovate, shortly aristate-acuminate, 

 both sides minutely denticulate in the upper part, ciliate towards the 

 subauriculate-cordate base, the largest leaves 2V4 mm. long; those of the 

 main rachis similar but nearly equal-sided, the largest 3V2 mm. long, 

 more sparingly ciliate at the base, pellucid-dotted, the cusp somewhat 

 longer; those of the branches similar, of the ultimate branchlets P4 — 2 

 mm. long, with the cusp 'A as long as the blade, the base whether or 

 not ciliated, more produced on the outer side. Spikes solitary, 5 — 15 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. diam.; sporophylla deltoid-ovate, shortly aristate-acuminate, 



