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'/j-way down to the costa, the base truncate-cuneate, the costa beneath 

 sparingly hairy and scaly. Lobes 3 — 4 mm. long, 2 — 3 mm. broad, truncate, 

 denticulate, approximate. Texture herbaceous; coulour pale; surfaces 

 naked ; veins 4 — 5 on a side, often simple. Sori medial ; indusium wanting 

 or rudimentary; capsules intermixed with paraphyses. 

 Luzon. 



(41) A. apienlaia, Rst., in Fed., Rep., XIII, 213. 



Fronds 3-pinnatifld. Pinnae petiolate, elongate-oblong, + 40 cm. long 

 by 14 cm. broad, acuminate, hardly narrowed at the base. Pinnulae 

 subsessile, linear, deeply pinnatiiid, the apex abruptly narrowed into a 

 crenulate acumen + 12 mm. long by 3 mm. broad. Lobes crowded, 

 linear-subfalcate, + 7 mm. long bj^ 3 '/j mm. broad, obtuse, entire. Texture 

 rigidly chartaceous ; rachises pale-brown, smooth, tomentose above, as are 

 the costae and costulae; costae (costulae?) provided beneath with scattered, 

 flat, lanceolate-ovate, slightly erose scales; veins + 8 on a side, often 

 forked. Sori + 6 on a side, subcostular; spurious indusium present, 

 narrowly ring-shaped, encircling the receptacle. — Stipes unarmed? 



Sumatra. 



(42) A. scabriseta, ». A. ». n.; Gyathea scabriseta, Gopel.^ in 

 Philipp. Journ., IX^, 2. 



Fronds deeply 3-pinnatifid, the main rachis fulvous, scaly with minute, 

 white, deciduous paleae fimbriate at the base, provided at the base with 

 firm, whitish, caducous hairs, the hairs red at the base, ciliolate with 

 very minute black-red and whitish teeth. Pinnae short-stalked, + 60 

 cm. long, 18 cm. broad, abruptly acuminate, the rachis dark-dirty-coloured, 

 above fusco-velutineous, beneath minutely furfuraceous and sparingly 

 hispid, glabrescent. Pinnulae horizontal, approximate,' the lower short- 

 stalked, + 2 cm. broad, deeply pinnatifid, abruptly caudate-acuminate, 

 the acumen serrate. Lobes often subfalcate, + 2 ' , mm. broad, obtuse, 

 minutely serrate or twice serrate. Texture subcoriaceous ; upper surface 

 black-green, lower paler; costae appresso-pilose above, clothed beneath 

 vpith whitish, often divided, rarely entire lanceolate scales ; costulae provided 

 beneath with pale buUate scales and a few scattered, flattened, dirty-coloured, 

 often divided paleae; veins to 12 on a side, often naked, mostly forked. 

 Sori medial; capsules intermixed with broMm hairs. — Stipes unarmed? 



Neic Guinea. 



