82 7. GLEICHENIA § 3. MEETENSIA. 



Axillary buds with a tuft of foliaceous stipules (bracts) and clothed 

 densely with lanceolate-subulate, black or black-brown scales with brown 

 or pale-brown ciliated edges; pinnulae more or less horizontal, sessile or 

 nearly so, deeply pinnatifid ; lobes more or less horizontal, approximate, 

 typically long and narrow, flattened, obtuse, the lowest not reduced, 

 sometimes more or less deeply incised, the edges not or narrowly 

 recurved, entire, or crenulate to serrulate towards the apex, without or 

 with a shghtly elevated line at the base; texture herbaceous to sub- 

 coriaceous; rachises, costae, costulae and veins naked or somewhat beset 

 with tawny, wool-like scales or hairs especially beneath. 



(4a*) tm. sordida, Copel., in Leafl., Ill, 798. 



Rachises and the lower part of the costae densely clothed with small, 

 dirty-castaneous scales. Pinnulae stalked, hardly 20 cm. long, 3 cm. 

 broad, acute, with the lobes approximate, entire, the lower whether or 

 not reduced. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; under surface pahsh 

 but not glaucous; veins forked. — Near G. giauca Hk. 



Mindanao. 



(4&) (5r. gigantea. Wall. 



Omit this species here. See No. ha. 



(4c) G. laevissinia. Ch*^*t, Copel., in Philipp. Journ., IV°, 25, 

 tab. XIV. 



Stipes stout, up to 60 cm. long, scaly and verrucose at the base, 

 otherwise smooth. Fronds forked, the axillary bud with stramineous, 

 scarious scales. Branches ascending, 40 — 60 cm. long, pinnate. Pinnulae 

 alternate, erecto-patent, short-stalked, up to 17 cm. or more long, 

 acuminate; segments (lobes or leaflets) erecto-patent, up to + 1'/^ cm. 

 long, I'/i — 2 mm. broad, entire, buUate, subacute, the lowest not 

 reduced. Texture coriaceous; rachises naked, stramineous or brown; 

 surfaces naked; under surface not glaucous. Sori of 3 — 5 capsules, 

 almost covering the under surface of the segments. 



Luzon; China. 



(5) G-. arachnoidea, Mett. 



Omit this name, it should be G. volubilis Jungh. 



