200 25. ASPIDIUM. § 2. SAGENIA. 



of Rev. Copland King's No. 161, from New Guinea^ which is probably a 

 form of this species, has the frond smaller, less broad than long, with 

 the lowest pinnae deeply pinnatifld at the base and the lowest posterior 

 lobe deeply lobed, the surfaces naked except on the costae and costulae 

 which are rather densely pubescent above, the indusium roundish-reniform 

 with the basal lobes often close or overlapping. 

 New Guinea (?); Queensland. 



(40) A. pachyphyllum, Ktze. 



Omit this, it being referred to A. repandum Willd. 



ST. CYSTOPTEtilS, Bernhat-di. 



Sori subglobose, dorsal or terminal on a vein or veinlet, or at the 

 forking of a vein. Indusium membranaceous, round and cucullate, convex, 

 covering the sorus, at length more or less reflexed or fugacious, fastened 

 by a broad base under the sorus, i. e. the indusium is attached to the 

 receptacle on 3 sides of it, opening towards the apex or the margin of 

 the segment. 



(1) C. tristis, Mett. 



Omit this, it being referred to Stenolepia. 



(3) C slipellata, ». A. ». «., in Bull. Btz., 1911, I, 4; G. nodosa, 

 Mett., Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., I, 142. Aspidium nodosum, Bl., Enum., 171; 

 Acrophorus nodosus, Pr., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde; 285; Bedd., Ferns Br. 

 I., I, tab. XCIII; A. stipellatus, Moore, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Leucostegia 

 nodosa, Bedd., Ferns Br. I., Suppl., 4; Davallia nodosa, Hk., Rac, 

 Flor. Btz. I, 130; D. stipellata, Wall, (oldest name); — var. alpina, Christ, 

 in Ann. Btz., XV, 89; - var. montana, Rst., in Fed., Rep., XII, 166. 



Rhizome erect, short, densely clothed with entire, lanceolate, brown 

 scales. Stipes glossy, 30 — 100 cm. long, scaly below, purple-brown to 

 yellow-brown. Fronds ovate to deltoid, ± 25 — 120 cm. long, 15 — 80 cm. 

 broad, 3^4 pinnate. Pinnae subopposite, sessile or short-stalked, not 

 rarely upcurved, the rachis ferrugineo-tomentose at the base on the 

 upper side; lower pinnae + 15—25 cm broad, with the pinnulae on the 



