46. PAESiA. 253 



barren narrowly cuneate and deeply incised with linear-lanceolate lobes, 

 when fertile mucronate. - - A specimen received from Luzon (Bur. of 

 Sci. No. 16313) differs from this in having the hairs of the rachis reddish, 

 very deciduous, the barren leaflets oblong, cuneate at the base, deeply 

 toothed, the fertile ones slightly so or subentire. 

 Luzon. 



(4) P. EInicri, Copeh, in Leafl., Ill, 826. 



Stipes brown, and fibrillose like the racbises and costulae beneath 

 but the latter less densely so or almost naked. Fronds large, 4-pinnate. 

 Pinnae to 50 cm. long, nearly sessile. Largest pinnulae ±12 cm. long. 

 Tertiary segments to + 18 mm. long. Ultimate segments oblong, obtuse, 

 the lower free, ± 3 mm. long, entire or incised, with the lobes entire 

 or 2-fld at the apex, the following adnate, the higher confluent, bearing 

 the sori mostly on the upper side only. Testure firm. 



Mindanao. 



(5) P. scaberiila, KuUn, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Pteris scaberula, Bich., 

 Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 163; Hk., Spec. Fil., II, tab. XCIII A. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, clothed with spreading hairs. Stipes wiry, 

 + 15 — 30 cm. long, strong, flesuse, reddish-browii, scabrous. Fronds 

 lanceolate or ovate, ± 30—45 cm. long, 15 — 25 cm. broad, 3 — 4-pinnatifld, 

 the main rachis flexuose, rough. Lower pinnae + 10 — 20 cm. long, cut 

 do'wn to the rachis into numerous lanceolate pinnulae on each side ; 

 ultimate segments oblong, toothed, + 5 — Tj^ mm. long and 272 — 3 mm. 

 broad. Texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces more or less resinoso-glandulose 

 or subpubescent. Sori copious, on entire ultimate segments, when mature 

 occupying nearly the whole segment except the midrib. 



Neio Guinea; New Zealand. 



4r. PTEHIDITJM^ Glfditsch. 



P<. a<|iiiliiiiiiu, Kuhn} Pteris aquilina, i., Schk., Krypt. Gew., 

 I, tab. 95: — var. esculentum; Pteris esculenta, Forst., Schk., 1. c, tab. 97. 



