138 17. NEPHEOLEPIS. § 2. EUNEPHROLEPIS. 



in having the rachis copiously deciduously scaly with dark-brown, nearly 

 blackish, rather entire scales, the barren pinnae partly subentire partly 

 coarsely serrate, provided beneath with copious fine, nearly hair-like, 

 deciduous scales. 



(14) M. . Miserrata, Schou.; — var. laurifolia; N. laurifolia, 

 Christ, Copel., in Leaf!., II, 394. 



(15) W. persicifolia, Christ, in Nov. Guin., VIII, Bot., 159. 

 Rhizome firm, creeping, clothed with scattered, brown, lanceolate, 



lacerate scales. Stipes rather thick, yellowish, to 50 cm. long, copiously 

 scaly and setose. Fronds lanceolate-oblong, + 80 cm. long, narrowed 

 towards both ends. Pinnae + 25 on each side, lanceolate, the largest 

 19 — 20 cm. long, + 2 — S'/^ cm. broad, rather sessile, the base broadly 

 cuneate or subtruncate, the margin crenate-serrate, the apex acuminate. 

 Texture papyraceous to chartaceous, thin, rather diaphanous; colour 

 bright-green; rachis setose; veins fine, forked, clavate at the apex. Sori 

 numerous, submedial between the costa and margin, nearer the latter; 

 indusium small, rather orbicular, hidden among the capsules at maturity. 

 New Guinea. 



IS. CYCL,OF»ELTIS, J. Smith. 



(1) C jscniicordala, .7. Sm. 



Forma typica: Fronds lanceolate-oblong; lower pinnae remote, 

 somewhat abbreviated. 



(la) C latiipaoa, v. A. v. n., in Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 5. 



Stipes to 10 cm. or more long, pubescent and scaly, as is the 

 rachis, the hairs very short, nearly gland-like, the scales proportionally 

 long and narrow, ferrugineous, the lower scales rather dense, filiform- 

 subulate, the higher more scatterred, crisped, hair-like. Fronds lanceolate, 

 + 30 — 35 cm. long, 12 — 15 cm. broad at or below the middle, pinnate. 

 Pinnae remote, articulate, 10 — 15 on a side below the terminal one; 

 central or inframedial pinnae largest, spreading or horizontal, lanceolate, 

 often falcate, + 6— 7'^ cm. long, + l'/^ — 1 '/j cm. broad, bluntly 

 acuminate, repando-undulate, the upper base rotundate-subtruncate, the 



