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edge; lower segments free, adnata, those of the lowest pinnulae deflexed, 

 shorter than the next higher, adnate or truncate at the base. Texture 

 coriaceous ; upper surface naked, dark, lower paler, minutely and deciduously 

 furfuraceous and short-hairy on the veins; veins 15—20 on a side, mostly 

 forked. Sori numerous, submedial, nearer the costulae than the margin, 

 not occupying the higher veins; indusium globose, thin, consisting of 

 copious soon evanishing interlaced hairs quite enclosing the sorus when 

 young, the base persistent, at length deeply fimbriate. 

 Neio Guinea. 



(265) C novo-guineensis, JBrau., in Engl. Bot. Jahrb., IL, 12, 

 fig. IB. 



Stipes short, 4 cm. long, muricate, tomentose and copiously scaly, 

 as are the rachises, the scales linear-lanceolate, lacerate, yellowish-grey 

 in the lower part, fuscous towards the long-acuminate apex. Fronds 

 probably lanceolate, narrowed at the base, 3-pinnatifid. Pinnae alternate, 

 subpetioliilate, the central ones the largest, to 20 cm. long and 7 cm. broad, 

 horizontal, abruptly narrowed at the bluntish apex, slightly narrowed at 

 the ])ase; lower pinnae growing gradually smaller, the lowest remote,' 

 I'/j cm. long and ^4 cm. broad. Pinnulae sessile, remote, alternate, sublinear, 

 bluntish, deeply pinnatifld, the largest to 4 cm. long and 1 cm. broad ; 

 lobes spreading, '/j — ' 4 cm. long and to '/, cm. broad, bluntish, subcrenulate, 

 slightly dilated at the base. Texture chartaceous; surfaces naked; upper 

 surface dark, lower paler; costae and costulae brown-hairy above, pale- 

 squamulose benaeth, the scales buUate, acuminate; veins + 6 on a side, 

 simple or forked. Sori numerous, the lower medial on the veins, the 

 higher nearer the costulae than the edge; indusium thin when young, 

 umbilicate, pale-red. 



Neio Guinea. 



(27a) V. Fox%V4»rthyi, CopeL, in Phihpp. Journ., IV^, 46. 



Trunk to 2 m. high. Stipe and lower end of the main rachis beset 

 on the under side with close, short, sharp spines, and finely scurfy, on 

 the upper side with very narrow, dark paleae, and bearing scar-like, linear- 

 oblong aerophores along the 2 ridges. Fronds 150 cm. long, bearing reduced 

 pinnae almost down to the trunk. Middle pinnae 45 cm. long, sessile, 

 abruptly narrowed to a pinnatifld apex. Pinnulae 10 cm. long, 1 '/j cm. 

 broad, narrowed gradually from the base to the caudate apex, cut almost 



