286 55. ASPLENIUM. § 2. NEOTTOPTEEiS. 



to + 6 cm. long, + 1 mm. broad, proliferous below the point. Texturei 

 chartaceous; colour pale-green, surfaces naked; costa prominent; veins 

 numerous^ nearly horizontal, simple, or rarely forked at the base, slender. 

 Sori occupying nearly the whole frond except the apeXj not reaching the 

 margin; indusium narrow, black-browni 

 Neio Guinea, 



(186) A. paueidens, «. A. v. it., in Bull. Btz., 1912, VII, 6. 



Rhizome ascending, shortly scandent, clothed with sabulate-lanceolate, 

 acute, grey-brown scales. Stipes erect, seriate, short, slightly scaly towards 

 the base. Fronds linear-lanceolate, + 30 cm. long and 2'/2 — 3 cm. broad, 

 caudate-acuminate, narrowed gradually towards the base, the margin 

 narrowly recurved, provided with a few distant, horizontal, short and 

 broad, deltoid, tooth-like outgrowths + 1 mm. long and 4 mm. broad,. the 

 acumen proliferous below the point. Texture chartaceous; surfaces naked ; 

 costa prominent ; veins numerous, nearly horizontal, fine, simple, or rarely 

 forked at the base. Sori occupying nearly the whole frond except in the 

 narrowest portions, mostly reaching both costa and margin; indusium 

 narrow, dark-brown. 



New Giimea, 



B. EU-ASPLENIUM. 



(21) A. minus. JSt.i — var. majas, v. A. v. R., in Bull. Bt2., 

 1915, XX, 6. 



War. majus: Stipes to 10 cm. long; fronds larger, to 30 cm. 

 long by 2'/2— B'/i cm. broad; pinnae to 1'^ cm. long, more deeply inciso- 

 dentate; Veins simple or forked, the lowest anterior flabellato-dichoto- 

 mous. — Java. 



(23a) A. trichonianeis, i.; Schk., Krypt. G-ew., I, tab. 74a. 



(26) A. sahgnum, Bl. 



Omit this, it being a young or undeveloped form of A. vulcanicum 

 Bl. only. 



(26a) A. glaiicostipeis, v. A. v. n., in Bull. Btz., 1914. XVI, 2. 



