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(7) O. Cuiuingii, a. Sm. 



Var. Sibbaldii. — Also in Neto Guinea, 



(9) O. iriiitmeei, Sk. 



Also in New Gxdnea. 



16. .A.I«,TOIJ,Or»TEl^IS, a. Smith. 



(1) A. obliterala, J. «»».,• — var. inciso-crenata, Rst., in Fed., 

 Rep., X, 339. 



Forma typica: Fronds 2% — 8 cm. broad. — Paleotropical. 



Forma dilatatissima : Fronds 8—12 cm. broad. — Java. 



War. inciso-crenata: Texture thin; veins distinct; edges 

 deeply inciso-crenate. — Neio Guinea. 



(3) A. caudata, K**., in Fed., Rep., VIII, 163. 



Rhizome wide-scandent, scaly. Stipes scattered, ± 3 cm. long, 

 compressed, sulcata in front, the lower part clothed with subdeltoid or 

 ovate-lanceolate, peltate, fimbriate scales. Fronds ovate-elongate, nar- 

 rowed towards both ends, + 40 cm. long, 3 '/a — 5 cm. broad below the 

 middle, pinnate, acuminate, the acumen linear-lanceolate, entire, or lobed 

 in the lower part. Pinnae to 30 or more on each side, sessile, horizontally 

 spreading, subcontiguous, the lower more distant, deflexed, the largest 

 + 1 cm. broad, entire, linear-oblong, obtuse; upper base truncate, 

 obtusely auricled, lower naVrowly cuneate. Texture thin to subcoriaceous ; 

 surfaces naked, black-green; rachis rufous, glabrescent, short-hairy at the" 

 points of insertion of the pinnae; costae hardly prominent, immersed 

 above, as are the veins, the lower part short-hairy; veins forked, the 

 lowest anterior veins pinnate. Sori remote, somewhat distant from the 

 margin. 



Nero Guinea. 



(4) A. Ikingii, Copel., in Philipp. .Journ., VT^, 80. 



Rhizome creeping, slender, black, deciduously scaly. Stipes remote, 

 3 — 5 cm. long, black, jointed ± 2 cm. above the base. Fronds 12 — 20 

 cm. long, 4^4 7j cm. broad, acuminate, hardly narrowed at the base. 



