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broad, deeply pinnatifid, acuminate, the point blunt, the base cordate. 

 Lobes ± 12 on a side, spreading, linear, to 3 cm. long by 1 '/i cm. broad, 

 separated by narrow sinuses, obtuse, serrate, the teeth serrate again ; lower 

 lobes largest, somewhat deflexed. Texture membranaceo-herbaceous ; surfaces 

 naked; costa grooved above, somewhat prominent below ; costulae flexuose ; 

 veins reaching the margin, once or twice forked, the lower pinnate. Sori 

 oblong, medial. 



New Guinea; Japan, China. 



(22) Ph. totta, Netf.f Gymnogramma Totta, Schl, BL, Flor. Jav., 

 II, tab. XXXVIII. 



(22a) Ph. uncideiis, e. A. v. Jt.,- Bryopteris uncidens, Rst., in 

 Fed., Rep., X, 337; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome erect; scales dense, lanceolate, ferrugineous, long-acuminate, 

 denticulate, the teeth spreading, red-brown, often hamato-2-fid at the 

 apex. Stipes tufted, to 30 cm. long, stramineous-brown, densely scaly 

 towards the base, less so in the upper part. Fronds deltoid-ovate, to ± 

 40 cm. long, nearly 30 cm. broad, shortly acuminate, pinnate. Pinnae 

 + 60 on a side below the terminal one, subopposite or alternate, nearly 

 horizontal, subapproximate ; largest pinnae petiolate, linear-lanceolate, to 

 15 cm. long, 5 cm. broad, acuminate, deeply pinnatifid, nearly pinnate 

 at the base; lower pinnae shorter, ovate at the base, following obliquely 

 truncate at the base; terminal pinna lobed at the base, serrate towards 

 the apex. Lobes + 12 on a side in the larger pinnae, spreading, linear- 

 oblong, to 2'/2 cm. long, 7i "^i^- broad, obtuse, crenate, separated by 

 subacute sinuses. Texture firm-herbaceous; colour brownish-green; rachis, 

 costae and costulae scaly, the scales scattered, floccose; veins naked, 

 forked, the higher simple. Sori linear, subcostular. 



New Gtdnea. 



(23) Ph. opaca, Mett.f Athyrium opaciim, Copel., in PhiUpp. 

 Journ., IIP, 292; Biplazium opacum, Christ, C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



(23a) Ph. gymnocarpa, ». A. v. H..; Bryopteris gijmnocarpa, 

 Copel, in Leafl., IH, 807; C Chr., Ind. Fil, Suppl. 



Rhizome short-creeping. Stipes approximate, rather close, + 1 — 2 

 cm. long, scaly at the base, clothed like the rachis with crowded whitish 



