284. 55. ASPLENIUM. § 2. NEOTTOPTEBIS. 



the edges more or less irregularly repancl with the undulations truncate- 

 crenate, the marginal stripes and indusia pale hut not whitish. 

 Sumatra. 



(7c) A. jgiihscalare, «?. A. ». R., in Bull. Btz., 1915, XX, 6. 



Near A. scalare Rsf. )jut the stipes fuscous, as is the costa, the 

 fronds with the marginal pale stripe indistinct (in dried material), the 

 indusia hrown. 



Malacca. 



{Id) JL. €lraslj©iI1i, Mst., in Fed., Rep., XIII, 215. 



Rhizome stout, scandent, densely clothed with lanceolate, brown 

 scales. Stipes 2-seriate, those of each row ± 2 — 3 cm. apart, — 3 cm. 

 long, scaly. Fronds lanceolate, 100 cm. or more long, + 14 cm. broad, 

 narrowed towards both ends, entire. Texture papyraceous; surfaces 

 provided with scattered, ferrugineous, adpressed, simple or forked, short 

 hairs; costa beneath prominent, quadrangular, 2-marginate, short-hairy; 

 veins forked, sparingly astomosing towards the apex, not reaching the 

 margin. Sori occupying the lower ^j. — "'^ of the veins, nearly reaching 

 the costa; indusium narrow, firm. 



Sumatra. 



(7e) See No. 6. 



(8a) A. !Stili!i|>alBinlatue»s, v. A, «. R., in Bull. Btz., 1915, XX, 7. 



Rhizome creeping, clothed with sparingly toothed or ciliated, pale- 

 fuscous, lanceolate-subulate scales. Stipes remote, to 5 cm. long, sUghtly 

 scaly, the scales few, lanceolate, pale-fuscous. Fronds simple, + 20 — 30 

 cm. long, + 6 — 7 cm. broad in the upper half which is oblong-lanceolate, 

 cuspidate, crenate or repando-crenate but more conspicuously towards the 

 apex; near the middle the frond is rather suddenly narrowed into the 

 wing-like lower half which is + '/^ — 1 cm. broad and decurrent upon 

 the stipe. Texture membranaceous or herbaceous; surfaces naked; costa 

 rather flattened, sparingly or deciduously scaly beneath; veins parallel, 

 ascending, simple or forked, not reaching the margin. Sori narrow, oc- 

 cupying the lower 'j., — '% of the veins, rather distant from the costa; 

 indusium narrow, pale, at length recurved. 



Sumatra. 



