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(17) ■■• todayensis, Christ, in Philipp. Journ., III'^, 272. 

 Large. Stipes tufted, succulent, 100 — 150 cm. long. Fronds up ± 



150 cm. long, ovate, 4-pinnatifid, sub-4-pinnate, the rachis thick, rufo- 

 stramineous, lucent, furfuraceo-pilose. Pinnae ± 25 on each side, the 

 largest ones stalked, oblong, acuminate, moderately narrowed at the base, 

 up to 70 cm. long, ± 23—27 cm. broad, the lower ones distant, the 

 others more close, alternate, short-stalked, triangular-oblong, produced at 

 the base on the upper side, the rachises ochraceous, pilose. Pinnulae 

 + 14-jugate, subsessile, neither adnate nor decurrent, the lowest ones 

 short-stalked, the lowest anterior ones more or less deeply pinnatifid, 

 cut down to the costa at the base, lobed towards the apex, close, 

 lanceolate-oblong, more or less acute. Ultimate lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 subentire, 3 — 4 mm. long, the lowest anterior ones often free, larger and 

 incised. Texture thinly chartaceous; upper surface dark-green, rather 

 glossy, with a few scattered, whitish hairs, under surface opaque, pilose; 

 costae like the rachises; veins distinct, beneath prominent and clothed 

 with long hairs, forked (subpinnate) in the lobes. Sori immersed, minute, 

 sparse, intramarginal at the base of the lobes, rather submedial, surrounded 

 by long hairs; indusium fugacious, roundish, grey. — Fronds with the 

 general habit of M. speluncae Moore. 

 Mindanao. 



(18) II . hispidiila, v. A. ». JR., (not M. villosa, Pr.); M. hirta, Pr., 



C. Chr., Ind. Fil., var. villosa, in Plerb. Bog.; Dennstaedtia villosa, Copel., 

 in Leafl., Ill, 824; Davallia villosa, Don. (not Wall.), Prod. Flor. Nep., 10. 

 Fronds 4-pinnate, the main rachis finely villose, glabrescent. Pinnae 

 elongate-lanceolate, 60 cm. or more or less long. Pinnulae lanceolate, the 

 central ones the largest, to + 10 cm. long, 3 cm. broad at the base, 

 acuminate. Tertiary segments lanceolate, the lower anterior the largest, 

 to 2 cm. long, acute, pinnate at least at the base. Ultimate leaflets 

 oblong, the lowest posterior cuneate-oblong, blunt, erecto-patent, the lowest 

 anterior the largest, nearly horizontal, to 6 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, 

 blunt, cuneate at the base, lobed with 1-3 rounded lobes on a side. 

 Texture coriaceous; upper surface naked or sparingly setulose on the 

 veins; under surface copiously piloso-hispid on the costae, costulae and 

 veins. Sori near the ultimate sinuses; indusium half-cup-shaped, broad, 

 hairy at the base. — The description in taken from afragment of Elmer's 

 No. 10472 from Mindanao. — A specimen from Mt. Himalaya, occurring in the 



