234 35, MICROLEPIA. 



Buitenzorg Herbarium, which may be the true Davallia inllosa Bon. 

 (received as M. hirta Pr.), differs from this especially by its aspect and 

 more acute ultimate lobules. 



Philippines^ Java to Br. India. 



(19) Ml. luelanuracliis, Rst., in Fed.. Rep., XII, 526. 



Stipes firm, like the rachis black-purple, opaque, densely asperulo- 

 strigose. Fronds ovate-oblong, to 50 cm. or more long, + 35 cm. broad 

 below the middle, sub-4-pinnate, the lateral rachises dark beneath, paler 

 above, short-hairy. Pinnae ascending, contiguous, stalked, + 10 on a 

 side, nearly linear, the largest + 20 cm. long by 7 cm. broad. Pinnulae 

 rhomboidal-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the lowest anterior + 6 cm. long 

 by 2 ' 2 cm. broad, the otbers somewhat shorter. Leaflets rhomboidal-oblong, 

 obtuse, deeply incised or inciso-dentate, the largest cut down to the costa, 

 with the segments obovate-cuneate, to 5 mm. long by S'/j mm. broad, 

 obtusely toothed on the anterior side. Texture thinly chartaceous; upper 

 surface sparingly appresso-setose on the veins, lower hirsute on the 

 costulae and veins; veins + 3 on a side, prominent beneath. Sori 

 solitary on the segments, placed below the sinuses; indusium sparingly 

 hairy. 



Neiv Guinea. 



36, T^^F»EIIVIDIU]^I, Christensen. 



{2a) T. luarginale, Copel., in Philipp. Journ., VI9, 82. 



Stipes ± 50 cm. long, black and square in the upper part, as is the 

 rachis. Fronds + 60 cm. long. Largest pinnae + 25 cm. long and 1 

 cm. broad, serrate, the teeth truncate. Texture herbaceous. Sori marginal, 

 much broader than deep. 



Neio Ghiinea. 



(3) T. graeile, ». A. v. «. 



Forma decomposita: Schlechter's No. 13718, determined by Christ as 

 Wibelia pinnata Fee (not Bernh.) var. gracilis in Schum. & Laut., Flor. 

 dent. Schgeb., Suppl., 40, is a rather small, 3-pinnate form with narrowed 

 branches; ultimate lobes linear, + 1 mm. broad, the apex obtuse or 

 rather obliquely truncate or irregularly 2— 3-dentate, the edge sparingly 



