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rotundate-cuneate, the outer base produced, cordate. Spikes square, 1 2 

 cm. long, 1 1V 2 mm. diam. ; sporophylla isomorphous, erecto-patent, ovate, 

 acute, keeled, entire or very minutely denticulate, the largest 1V mm. 

 long; macrospores pale-orange, yellowish or whitish, irregularly rugulose 

 or reticulate on the basal side, the apical ribs encircled by a ring-shaped 

 crest; microspores yellowish or whitish, provided with conical, tuber- 

 culiform, capitate, stipitate-capitate or bacilliform projections on the 

 basal side. 



Forma typica. Sumatra to the Andamans. 



War. liorneensis : Leaves of the lower plane more falcate, 

 more acute ; of the upper plane acuminate. Borneo. 



War. ciliata: Leaves of the lower plane strongly ciliated at the 

 base ; of the upper plane acuminate. Borneo. 



War. splenclitla: Leaves of the lower plane (of the branchlets) 

 rather sparingly, minutely denticulate (not ciliolate) on the upper side at 

 the base. Sumatra. 



(83) 8. la ti fro us. If rfe., Mons., 1, 120. 



Shoots erect, 50 70 cm. long, the lower part simple, terete, 2V 3V 2 

 mm. thick, yellowish when dry, the upper (larger) part branched, broadly 

 ovate; branches copious, the lower to 20 cm. long, decompound, the higher 

 pinnate, 2 4 cm. long; branchlets 1 2 cm. long, 3 6 mm. broad 

 including the lateral leaves. Leaves of the stem adpressed, ovate, 4 mm. 

 long, acute, truncate at the base; leaves of the branches heteromorphous; 

 leaves of the lower plane spreading, contiguous, very oblique, subfalcate- 

 ovate; of the secondary rachises to 6 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, dark- 

 green above, pale and glittering beneath, not ciliate, subacute, the upper 

 side very minutely denticulate, broadly rounded and subbullate at the 

 base ; of the branchlets lanceolate-falcate, entire, rotundate-cuneate at the 

 base, rather spuriously veined, 3 4 mm. long; leaves of the upper plane 

 erect; of the secondary rachises ovate, 3 mm. long, cuspidate-acuminate, 

 the inner side very minutely denticulate, cuneate at the base, the outer 

 side entire, auriculate-cordate at the base, keeled; of the branchlets 

 similar, shorter, the outer base slightly produced, rounded. Spikes 8 12 

 mm. long, 2 mm. diam.; sporophylla ovate, 1V mm. long, acuminate, 

 minutely denticulate, keeled, glittering; macrospores yellow- white, rugulose; 

 microspores with conical projections on the basal half. 



Luzon. 



