516 APPENDIX. 60fl.. PHEGOPTEEIS. 



as is the stipe, tlie liairs rufous. Pinnae approximate, sessile, + 5 cm. 

 long by 1 cm. broad, the edge cut about ^j^-wslj down to the costa. 

 Lobes rounded, recurved at the edge; veins 10, depressed above, prominent 

 and hirsute below, the hairs black. Sori small, medial on the veins. — 

 The proper place of this species is uncertain because of incomplete 

 description. 



New Guinea. 



(36c*) Ph. maiuberantensls, v. A. ». JS., in Bull. Btz., 1917, 

 XXIV, 3; Dryopteris memberamensis, v. A. v. E., MS. in Herb. Bog. 



Stipe and rachis pale-fuscous, very minutely puberulous, soon giab- 

 rescent. Fronds lanceolate-ovate, + 85 — 125 cm. long, broadest at or 

 above the base, 2-pinnatifld, suddenly acuminate. Pinnae numerous, 

 rather remote, spreading or more ascending, linear-lanceolate, long-acum- 

 inate or caudate, the acumen entire, the edge cut ± */5-way down to 

 the costa; central pinnae sessile, truncate at the base; lower pinnae 

 shortly petiolulate, narrowed gradually at the base; largest pinnae + 

 25 — 35 cm. long, 2— 2 '/a cm. broad at the middle. Lobes numerous, 

 separated by narrow, bluntish sinuses, entire or subentire, the lower and 

 central subhorizontal, the central the largest, the following growing 

 gradually shorter and more ascending, the higher tooth-like; largest lobes 

 linear-oblong, ^4 — 1 cm. long, 3 — 4 mm. broad at the base, rounded at 

 the apes. Texture herbaceous; surfaces naked; veins oblique, simple, to 

 12 on a side, the lowest meeting + % below the sinus and then either 

 united or running abreast. Sori numerous, nearer the costula than the 

 margin, slightly immersed. 



Neio Guinea. 



5. MENISCIUM. 



(45) Ph. ciispielata, Mett. 



Pinnae not rarely reddish when dry, acuminate to cuspidate, entire 

 to crenate. Sori not invariably setose. 



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