136 17. NEPHROLEPIS. § 2. EUNEPHBOLEPIS. 



side towards the base, and the under side deciduously scaly and short- 

 hairy, at length glabrescent. Sori submarginal. 

 Java. 



M. iii|»hoboloi<les, «?. A.. ». K., in Bull. Btz., 1913, XI, 18. 



Like N. hirsutula Pr. but the fronds narrower and both rachis and 

 pinnae clothed with woolly tomentum consisting of long, crowded, 

 interlaced, curved or flexuose, deciduous hairs placed in groups of 3 — 6 

 and springing from a minute, stellate-peltate, scale-like centre. Sori . . . 



Karimon Java Islands. 



(8c) M. pilosula, V. A. ®. n., in Bull. Btz., 1918, XI, 18. 



Rhizome short, the scales dark-brown, pale-margined and sparingly 

 ciliolate-dentate, subulate. Fronds lanceolate, 60 — 90 cm. more or less 

 long, + 10 — 20 cm. broad, acuminate, te rachis when young densely 

 scaly and pilose, as is the stipe, at length glabrescent, the scales pale- 

 brown, more or less adpressed and slightly crisped, linear-subulate, finely 

 acuminate, the hairs spreading, copious, reddish-brown. Pinnae numerous 

 remote, horizontal or nearly so, often prominently (bluntly to acutely) 

 auriculate at the truncate upper base, not or less so at the truncate, 

 rotundate to abruptly cuneate lower base, the edge shallowly and rather 

 broadly crenated, the central pinnae the longest, linear, + Vj^ — 2 cm. 

 broad, the lower more or less reduced, and rounded at the apex, the 

 higher growing gradually shorter, acute to acuminate and more 

 prominently serrate-crenate at the apes ; fertile pinnae often conspicuously 

 crenate-dentate. Texture membranaceous to coriaceous; costae and 

 surfaces copiously (not densely) pilose; the hairs of the upper surface 

 deciduous, those of the under surface more persistent, those of the 

 costae intermixed with deciduous, long, fine, subfiUform scales. Sori 

 distant from the margin ; indusium orbicular-reniform, with a closed sinus. 



Borneo. 



(8d) See No. 12. 



(10) M. cordifolia, Pr.; — var. calcarea, Christ, in Nov. Guin., 

 VIII, Bot., 158. 



War. calcarea: Pinnae less blunt, rather acute, subfalcate; sori 

 submarginal ; indusium round, the basal lobes close or overlapping. — Neio 

 Guinea. 



