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Hah. Java, Blume, Tfiox. Lobb. Mountains, north of Assam, Simons (communi- 

 cated by Dr. Thomson). — Our Java specimens exactly correspond with Blunie's 

 excellent figure, and are of a singularly ])ale-green colour, esi)ecially beneath : those 

 from Assam are more variable, some of the fronds quite pyiiform, and all of a 

 dark-brown colour, like that of our African A. Mannianum, from wliich however, 

 in other and more important particulars, it widely differs. 



16. A. Mannianum, Hook. ; stipites 6-9 inches long com- 

 pressed slender not thicker than a crow's quill hlack, fronds 

 ample 5-10 inches long and often nearly as much wide firm- 

 membranaceous subpellucid brown-olivaceous when dry 

 rhombeo-rotundate suddenly and often caudato-acuniinate 

 coarsely sinuato-serrate at the superior margin and not un- 

 frequently laciniate ecostate rather suddenly attenuate into 

 the stipes, venation very conspicuous elevated subflabellate, 

 areoles large numerous oblongo-hexagonal, sori superficial li- 

 near-elongate more or less interrupted. — Hook. 2d Cent, of 

 Fertis, t. 73. 



Ilab. West tropical Africa ; trunks of trees on the Peak of Fernando Po, alt. 3000 

 feet, n. 364, Cameroon Mountains, alt. 3-4000 feet, n. 1364, and Bagroo river, 

 G. Mann. — Unquestionably the finest species of the genus, distinguished by the 

 great breadth of the frond in proportion to its length, its submembranaceous 

 translucent texture, the coarsely irregularly serrated margin, and the slender 

 stipes. Under a lens the frond is seen to be very minutely pellucido-punctate. 



17- A. latipes, Kze. ; "fronds coriaceous elongato-lanceo- 

 late acuminate yellowish when dry ecostate, stipes very broad 

 compressed having a broad central rib (mesoneuro lato pera- 

 grato), the margins waved thin, sori loosely reticulated in a 

 cleft of the lamina thick brown snuft'-colour, rhizome surcu- 

 lose, the scales very long narrow acuminate." Fee. — Kze. in 

 Fee, Antroph. p. 48. t. b.f. 2. 



Hab. Java, Zollinger. — " A perfectly distinct species." The figure represents 

 fronds 12-14 inches long, %-\ inch i)road in the widest part above the middle, 

 tapering much at both extremities, witli few but very large areoles, 2^ and more 

 inches long, and 3 lines wide. It is unknown to me. Notwithstanding the ex- 

 pression of the "sori in rima laminarum siti," Fee places it in a section " sporo- 

 thecii.1 superficialibus." 



18. A. obf.usu)ii, Klfs. ; "fronds sjiathulato-oblong sessile 

 or terminating below in a flat stipes very obtuse at the mar- 

 gin which is cartilaginous circumscribing the thick opaque 

 lamina, areoles narrow hexagonal, costa none, veins sculptu- 

 rate rugose on the under side and whitish." Fee. — K/f's. En. 

 Fil. p. 199 [not Blume). Bonj,in Voy. de la Co(]uille, j).25Ci. 

 /. 29./. 2. Fee, Antroph. p. bO. Hemionitis, /:{wr//, »« IVilld. 

 Sp. PL V. p. \27. Pr. 



