91. MARATTIA. § 1. EUMARATTIA. 449 



simple, hyaline. Son distant from the margin; synangia 3 — 7-celled; 

 indusium distinct. — See Bull. Btz., 1913, XI, 17. 

 Borneo, Java (?). , 



(26) M. novogiiiiieensis, n.st., in Fed., Rep., X, 342; Hedwi., 

 LVI, 354. 



Stipes grey-green or brownish, aculeate with short spines and prov- 

 ided with ferrugineous, fibrillose scales. Fronds large, 2-pinnate. Pinnae 

 nearly horizontal, short-stalked, elongate-oblong, to ± 50 cm. long, 17 

 cm. broad, the rachis narrowly marginate above. Pinnulae numerous, 

 + 30 on each side below the terminal one, spreading or the higher 

 suberect, short-stalked, lanceolate, the central ones the largest, nearly 9 

 cm. long, I'/j cm. broad, the base cuneate, the margin broadly and 

 sharply toothed but more conspicuously towards the acuminate apex; 

 lower pinnae conspicuously shorter, higher less so. Texture coriaceous; 

 both surfaces white-punctulate, the lower more distinctly; main and 

 secondary rachises fuscous, naked above, scaly beneath with scattered, 

 linear, fimbriate scales; costae and veins naked abovCj sparingly scaly 

 beneath; veins simple, obUque. Sori oblong, submarginal; synangia 

 4 — 5-celled ; indusium fimbriate. 



New Ghoinea. 



(2c) II. anflaicnsi«, ». A. v. n., in Bull. Btz., 1916, XXIII, 16. 



Pinnae 43 cm. or more long, the rachis fuscous, naked, upward 

 narrowly winged between the pinnulae. Pinnulae sessile, spreading 

 or the higher more ascending, the central ones the largest, lanceolate, 

 + 10 cm. long, to 1 '/2 cm. broad, the base abruptly cuneate, the margin 

 repando-subdentate, here and there sparingly serrate-dentate, serrate at 

 the acuminate apex; lower pinnae conspicuously shorter, higher less so. 

 Texture coriaceous ; surfaces naked ; upper surface dark-olivaceous when 

 dry; under surface paler, albo-punctulate ; veins simple, spreading. Sori 

 oblong, submarginal; synangia to 9 — 12-celled; indusium fimbriate. 



Netv Guinea. 



(2d) II. Kiiigii, Copel., in Philipp. Journ., VF, 66. 



Fronds probably ± 1 m. long. Pinnae 20 — 25 cm. long, the rachis 

 sparingly scaly towards the base, vdnged towards the apex. Pinnulae 

 sessile or subsessile, lanceolate, the largest + 3'/, — 5 cm. long, + 

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