302 55. ASPLENIUM. § 4. DAREA. 



(81a) A. dubiuiu, Brack., Espl. Exp., 172; A. rhizophyllum, ^"06, 

 Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 220, p. p. 



Rhizome creeping, black. Stipes scattered, angular, sparingly hirsuto- 

 paleaceous. Fronds small, deltoid-ovate, 2 — 3-pinnate. Pinnae subopposite, 

 spreading, lanceolate-oblong; pinnulae linear-oblong, inciso-pinnatifid ; la- 

 ciniae linear, obtuse. Texture membranaceous; surfaces naked. — The 

 proper place of this species is uncertain because of incomplete description. 



New Guinea; Polynesia. 



5. LOXOSCAPHE. 



(82c) A. Schultzei, Bfuu., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 31. 



Fronds lanceolate, + 75 cm. long, + 40 cm. broad, compound. 

 Pinnae short-stalked, lanceolate, to 20 cm. long, to 8 cm. broad; lower 

 pinnae to + 8 cm. apart, abbreviated, higher less remote. Pinnulae 

 long-triangular, very long-acuminate, unequal-sided, broadest on the upper 

 side at the base, the largest + 5 cm. long by 1^4 cm. broad, + 2 cm. 

 apart ; lowest pinnulae horizontal, following oblique. Lower tertiary segments 

 2-pinnatifid; lobes narrowly linear, hardly 2'/2 mm. long, dilated and 

 2-fid at the apex. Texture herbaceous; rachises anb surfaces naked; 

 veins forked in the lobes. Sori subterminal on the lobes, occupying the 

 longest veinlet; indusium semiovate, opening towards the shortest veinlet. 



Neio Gtiinea. 



Se. PHYLLIXIS, I^udwig. 



§ 1. SCOLOPENDRIUM. 



a. Sori sejjaratecl by a distinct, elevated ridge at the place where the free 



edges of the indusia meet when young. 



(5) Ph. longifolia. 

 a.a. Sori without an intermedial ridge, at best separated by a fine spurious 



veinlet, 



h. Rhizome short-creeping or erect, (4) Ph. schizocarpa. 



6.6. Rhizome wide-creeping or scandent. 



