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lower reduced, roundish-ovate; fertile pinnae to 12 cm. long, under 1 cm..; 

 broad, deeply pinnatifld but only slightly incised at the base, the lobes: 

 + l'/^ mm. broad, dilated at the apex when fertile. Texture chartaceous; 

 surfaces bright-green, naked; costae naked; veins approximate, once or 

 twice forked. Sori terminal on the lobes, similar to those of N. 

 dicksonioides Christ. 

 NeiD Ghiinea. 



[Sb M. Sclilechtei'i, Srau., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 24. 



Rhizome short, erect. Stipes tufted, + 11- cm. long, grooved down 

 the face, the base densely clothed with linear, entire, long-acuminate 

 scales. Fronds linear-lanceolate, to 50 cm. long, 6 — 7 cm. broad, hardly 

 narrowed at the base, the rachis piloso-squamulose. Pinnae short-stalked, 

 linear-lanceolate, rather truncate at te base, falcate, the largest 3 — 4 cm. 

 long, 5 — 7 mm. broad, the fertile ones the longest and narrowest; barren 

 pinnae entire, but erenate or serrate towards the apex, fertile ones 

 crenate. Texture chartaceous; surfaces fibrilloso-squamulose when young, 

 at length naked ; veins forked, not reaching the margin, the fertile ones 

 with the posterior fork-branch sterile and much abbreviated. Sori 

 numerous in the higher pinnae, less so in the lower; indusium cup-shaped. 



Neio Guinea. 



EUNEPHROLEPIS. 



(8) 1%. hirsiiiula. iPn.; Aspidinm hirsutiUuin, Sio., Schk., Krypt. 

 Gew., I, tab. 33. 



Diflfers from N. tomentosa v. A. i\ R. by the absence of the fibrillose 

 tomentum on the rachis; pinnae clothed beneath with fimbriate or 

 ciliate, lanceolate scales. 



(Sfl) ]^. toBueufosa, k. A. «. n., in Bull. Btz., 1911, I, 11; 

 1913, XI, 17. 



Near N. hirsutula Pr. Imt the fronds narrower, to + 5 cm. broad, 

 the rachis deeiduously floccoso-squamulose, and tomentose with crowded, 

 squarrose or crisped, articulated, reddish-brown, persistent fibrils, the 

 pinnae (both barren and fertile) blunt or bluntly rounded at the apex, 

 + '/2 cm. broad, with the costa tomentose i^like the rachis) on the upper 



