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finely acuminate occasionally sublol)ate, terminal pinna long- 

 petioled mostly tripartite subsinuato-lobate, costules very 

 distinct united by curved transverse veins, their areoles net- 

 ted with veinlets and the areoles again including free and 

 divaricating branched veinlets, sori copious compital oblong 

 placed in a series one on each side of and close to the cos- 

 tules. — Aspidium, Bl. En. Fil.pA42. Drynaria,J.,Sm. in Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. \\\. p. 421 {name only). Metten. Aspid. p. 131. 

 Dryonienis, Moore. Dryomenis Phymatodes, Fee, Gen. Fil. 

 p.22o.t. 18. A. 



llab. Java, Blume, Zollinrjcr. Luzon, Cuming, n. 31 (tliis is quoted for Mi- 

 crosorium irifidtim, by Tue, Cen. p. 269, and n. 4). Island of Samoa, Solomon's 

 Group, Milne. — A species with the sori oi Meniscium and the \\a.h\\, oi Euaspidium 

 or Phymatodes. 



.379. P. (Phymatodes) laciniatum, Bl. ; ^' caudex creeping 

 clothed with lanceolate ciliated reddish scales," stipites a 

 span and more long, fronds coriaceo-membranaceous a foot 

 and more long ])road cordato-ovate glabrous deeply pinnatifid 

 with obtuse sinuses, segments 15-21 4-8 inches long |-f of 

 an inch wide subopposite patent or horizontal oblongo-elon- 

 gato-lanceolate finely almost setoso-acuminate terminal one 

 more or less elongated, lowest pair detlexed forming a deep 

 sinus at the bases their edges thickened entire or subsinu- 

 ato-dentate, venation manifest, costules nearly horizontal 

 distinct flexuose extending to the margin united by a net- 

 work of irregular rather small areoles which include free 

 veinlets, sori rather small sunk forming corresponding pus- 

 tules on the upper side compital arranged in a single series 

 rather nearer the costa than the margin. — BL Fil. Juv.p. 149. 

 ^.63. Metien. Polyp, p. 107. Phymatodes. Pr. 



Hab. Java, Zollinger, De Vriese and Teijsmann. — Well represented by Blunie. 



380. P. (Phymatodes) malacodon, Hook. ; caudex creeping 

 paleaceous with firm subulate dark-brown scales paler at the 

 edges, stipites 2-4 inches long slender stramineous or red- 

 dish, fronds G-S rarely 12 inches long subcoriaceo-membra- 

 naceous glabrous cordate acuminate deeply pinnatifid with 

 narrow sinuses, segments 5 rarely 7 3-4 inches long ^-1 inch 

 wide from a rather contracted base broad-lanceolate sub- 

 flexuose sharply acuminated patent, terminal one more elon- 

 gated lowest pair falcate and curved upwards having a deep 

 sinus between the two bases all of them sharply serrated, the 

 teeth or serratures terminated by a rather long soft deciduous 



