296 55. ASPLENIUM. § 3. EU-ASPLENIUM. 



Pinnae with 1 vein, rarely 2 veins on the lower side of the costa 

 (in the typical form). 

 Also in Mindanao. 



(62a) A. kelelense, JBrau., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 29, 

 fig. 2 A — a. 



Rhizome short, erect. Stipes tufted, 3—11 cm. long, grey-brown, 

 winged, and clothed with deciduous, brown, narrowly linear, acuminate 

 scales. Fronds lanceolate, 10—17 cm. long, S'/^— 5 cm. broad, slightly 

 narrowed at the base, sub-2-pinnate ; main rachis winged, scaly. Pinnae 

 + 12 — 15 on each side; higher pinnae approximate, spreading, sessile or 

 subpetiolulate ; central pinnae largest, horizontal, deeply pinnatiiid, sub- 

 pinnate, to 2 '/j cm. long and 1 '/^ cm. broad, the base unequally cuneate- 

 truncate, broadest on the upper side ; lower pinnae defiexed, to 2 cm. 

 apart. Segments to 3 on a side below the terminal one, connected by a 

 narrow costal wmg, roundish, obovate or cuneate, the apex rounded and 

 crenate or toothed, the base cuneate, rotundate-cuneate or truncate- 

 cuneate. Texture chartaceous; surfaces naked; veins to 3 on a side, 

 simple or forked. Sori scattered (occupying the terminal segments only ?) ; 

 indusium membranaceous. 



New Guinea. 



(62/)) A. faapalofihylliiui, JS*f., in Fed., Rep., XII, 167. 



Rhizome creeping, woody, the scales dense, ferrugineous, lanceolate 

 from a slightly dilated base, fibrillose-acuminate, subentire or sparingly 

 ciUated. Stipes subapproximate, to 15 cm. long and, like the rachis, castan- 

 eous, naked, glossy, fragile. Fronds elongate, + 20 cm. long by 1 '/i — 2 cm. 

 broad, shortly acuminate, 2-pinnate. Pinnae + 15 on a side, ascending, 

 petiolate, trapezoid-rhomboidal, the higher cuneate, the largest + 2 cm. 

 long by 1 cm. broad. Pinhulae 1 — 2 on a side, linear-cuneate, + 8 mm. 

 long by 1 mm. broad, straight or incurved, entire, or incised at the apex. 

 Texture herbaceous ; surfaces naked, subopaque-green ; veins forked, sub- 

 immersed. Sori linear, 1 — 3 to a pinna; indusium membranaceous, whitish, 



New Guifiea. 



(62c) A., inclso-dentatuin, Rst., in Fed., Rep., XII, 167. 

 Rhizome wide-creeping, woody, the scales ferrugineous, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, cihate. Stipes ± 1 'j., — 4 cm. apart, slender, to 15 cm. long. 



