128 14. DENNSTAEDTIA. 



acuminate, linear, serrate, the rachis partly ferrugineo-tomentose, articulate 

 at the base. Leaflets short-stalked, articulate at the base, trapezoid- 

 oblong, to 1 '/j cm. long, 1 cm. broad and produced on the upper side at 

 the base, subobtuse, the lower and central deeply pinnatifid, the higher 

 lobed on the upper side, subcrenate on the lower side, the highest simple, 

 the stalks narrowly winged. Lobes oblong, obtuse, the lower produced 

 and crenate on the upper side, entire on the lower side. Texture rigidly 

 chartaceous or subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; colour grey-green; lower 

 veins pinnate, higher simple or forked. Sori in the sinuses of the 

 crenations. 



New Guinea. 



{M) See No. 13a. 



(6e) I*, parapliyisata, ». a. ■». K., in Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 7. 



Rhizome creeping, densely long-hairy, the hairs articulated, red-brown 

 or castaneous. Stipes scattered, + 70 cm. long, stramineous, brown at 

 the base, deciduously hairy, at length punctulato-asperulous. Fronds 

 triangular-lanceolate, + 70 cm. long, + 55 cm. broad at the base, 4- 

 pinnatilid or 4-pinnate, acuminate, the rachises deciduoasly long-hairy, the 

 hairs partly whitish partly red-brown, often inflated at the base. Pinnae 

 triangular-lanceolate, the lowest stalked, spreading or horizontal, + 27 '/i 

 cm. long, + 15 cm. broad above the base, acuminate; central pinnae a 

 little longer, arcuate-ascending. Tertiary segments oblong, to 1 — 2 cm. 

 long, connected by a narrow wing, the lowest anterior mostly the largest, 

 deeply pinnatifid, or pinnated at the base. Ultimate segments cuneate- 

 oblanceolate or cuneate-obovate, oblique, to 5 mm. long and 2'/2 mm. 

 broad, the lowest anterior the largest, sparingly and bluntly crenate- 

 dentate or coarsely toothed. Texture herbaceous; under surface long- 

 hairy on the costae and costulae, subverruculose between the veins. 

 Sori solitary on the anterior edge of the ultimate segments, at the 

 centre; indusium 2-valved, the valves semiglobose; capsules when young 

 intermixed with red-brown, hair-like, crisped paraphyses. 



Java. 



(7) D. Sanioenisifii, Moore. 



Philippines across New Guinea to Polynesia. 



