492 APPENDIX. 3. ALSOPHILA. 



minute, ovate, bullate, acuminate and finely fimbriate at the apex; veins 

 to 12 — 15 on a side, somewhat prominent heneath, once or twice forked, 

 the higher simple. Sori occupying the lower veins, to 8 on a side, subcostular ; 

 capsules intermixed with red-brown articulated hairs not or hardly longer 

 than the capsules. — Stipes unknown but probably rough, not aculeate. 

 Amboina. 



(20) A., saparuensis, v. A. v. n. 



Also in Netv Guinea (t. Ridl.). 



(26(?) A. ainboiBicnsis, «. A. ». R., in PhiUpp. Journ., XF, 103. 



Stipes more than 50 cm. long, more or less fuscous when dry, aculeate 

 with short, conical warts, deciduously ferrugineo-furfuraceous. Fronds 

 3-pinnatifld, narrowly elliptic in outline, + 2'/2 m. long, the rachises 

 beneath when young probably furfuraceous and more or less scaly, above 

 pubescent, the main rachis aculeolate in the lower part ; furfur ochraceous ; 

 scales narrowly subulate or filiform, brown; pubescence consisting of short, 

 spreading, incurved, red-brown or castaneous hairs. Pinnae to + 35 on 

 a side, spreading, short-stalked, acuminate, the largest ovate-lanceolate, to 

 50 cm. or more long and 17 Vi cm. broad, the rachis narrowly winged 

 towards the apex ; lower pinnae very remote, reduced. Pinnulae to about 

 20 — 25 on a side, shortly petiolulate, oblique or the lower horizontal or 

 spreading, rather coarsely serrate-crenate at the long-acuminate, subcaudate 

 apex, otherwise deeply pinnatifld, the base cuneate-truncate ; largest 

 pinnulae about 9 cm. long by 1^/4 cm. broad. Segments close or 

 approximate, linear-oblong, straight or subfalcate, to 1 cm. long by 8 mm. 

 broad, crenate or crenulate in the lower part, serrate-dentate towards 

 the bluntish or subacute apex. Texture firm-herbaceous or subcoriaceous ; 

 surfaces naked ; costae fuseo-puberulous above ; costae and costulae more 

 or less deciduously squamulose beneath, the squamules ovate, bullate, 

 acuminate, pale, intermixed with flatter ones ; veins to about 8 — 10 on a 

 side, forked, the higher simple. Sori subcostular, occupying the lower 

 veins, to 6 on a side, at length confluent; capsules intermixed with 

 hyaline, articulated hairs not or not much longer than the capsules. 



Amboina. 



(27) A. glaiica, J. Sm.; Gyathea contaminans, CopeL, in Philipp. 

 Journ., IV"", 60; — var. squamulosa, v. A. v. R., in Bull. Btz., 1916, 



xxni, 2. 



