ISO 14. DENNSTAEDTIA. • ' 



Quaternary segments linear-oblong, to I'/a cm. long by "^ cm. broad, 

 deeply pinnatifid, subpinnate at the base, the apes 1 — 3-dentate. Texture 

 coriaceous; upper surface naked; rachises canaliculate above. Sori 

 numerous; higher sori terminal on short, blunt lobules + 2 mm. long 

 and 1 mm. broad; lower sori often surpassed by a lateral, subacute, 

 simple or 2-M horn to 2 mm. long; indusium 2-valved, the valves 

 hemispherical. 

 Java. 



(8) D. javanica, Christ. 



Omit this species, it being referred to Balantium. 



(8a) W. aeiiBuinata. K*#., in Hedwi., LVI, 350. 



Rhizome erect, the apex clothed with reddish-brown, lanceolate scales. 

 Stipes 45 cm. more or less long, stramineous, fuscous at the base, 

 provided with scattered, deciduous, ferrugineous, lanceolate scales when 

 young. Fronds ovate-lanceolate, to about 60 cm. long by 35 cm. broad, 

 4-pinnatifid, acuminate ; rachises and costae stramineous, provided beneath 

 vnth a few deciduous, lanceolate squamules. Pinnae to about 40 on a 

 side, suberecto-patent, short-stalked, lanceolate; largest pinnae about 20 

 cm. long, 6 cm. broad below the middle, produced on the anterior- side, 

 acuminate, obliquely truncate-cuneate at the base ; lower pinnae somewhat 

 smaller. Pinnulae similar in shape, the lowest anterior the largest, about 

 6 cm. long by 2 cm. broad. Tertiary segments sessile, the higher 

 elongate-oblong,' decurrent, confluent, toothed, the lower lanceolate, 

 narrowly cuneate at the base, deeply pinnatipartite with incurved, linear- 

 oblong lobes narrowed at the apex Texture subcoriaceo-chartaceous ; 

 surfaces naked; veins mostly simple, the lower forked or subpinnate. 

 Sori terminal on the teeth, recurved. 



Neto Gtiinea. 



(10) 15. ctiiieata, Moore; — var. obtusa, Copel., in Philipp. 

 Journ., VII'^', 63. 



Forma typica: Pinnulae acute or acuminate. — Philippines, Batjan. 

 Var. oltiiiisa : Pinnulae obtuse. — Borneo. 



(12) B. ftlaceicia, BemU.; Bicksonia flaccida, Sic. 



Glabrous or subglabrous in Malayan and more or less copiously hairy in 



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