APPENDIX. 91. MARATTIA. 529 



(6*) II, Koortlersii, v. A. v. «.,• M. fraxmea, Christ (not Sin.), 

 in Ann. Btz., XV, 184. 



Near M. ternatea cle Vr. Ijut the leaflets proportionally shorter, 

 ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, subabruptly acuminate, the veins partly 

 simple partly forked. 



Celebes. 



103. L^i^COr»ODnJ31, lAnnS. 



§ 1. UROSTACHYS. 



(9a) I*, canipejittre, ». A. ». R., in Bull. Btz., 1917, XXIV, 3. 



Shoots erect, simple, + 10 — 12 cm. long, + 5 — 7 mm. diam. 

 including the leaves. Leaves crowded, + 10-farious (arranged in alternate 

 spurious whorls of 5), coriaceous, rigid, erecto-patent or subspreading, 

 intermixed with prolific buds, entire or sparingly and very minutely 

 serrulate, flattened, the lower sublanceolate-subulate, acute or subacute, 

 narrowly costate, + 3 — 4 mm. long, J^ 1 mm. broad at the base, the 

 higher and central and occasionally also the lower ones elliptical-oblong, ± 

 1 mm. broad at or below the middle, acute or acuminate, indistinctly 

 costate. Sporangia in the axils of unaltered central and higher leaves. 



Neto Chtinea. 



(12rt) li. riibricaule, w. A. r>. n., in Bull. Btz., 1917, XXIV, 3. 



Shoots erect, simple or sparingly dichotomous, + B — 10 cm. long, 

 the stem and branches red in age, + 4—8 mm. diam. including the 

 leaves. Leaves horizontal or deflexed, coriaceous, ± 8-farious (arranged 

 in alternate spurioas whorls of 4), rather remote, intermixed with prolific 

 buds, lanceolate, + 1%—S^lo mm. long, + '/a — 1 ™i^- broad, flattened, 

 acute, entire, not or hardly narrowed at the base, indistinctly costate. 

 Sporangia in the axils of unaltered leaves. 



Neio G'uinea. 



(15) Ij. tetrastichuiu, Kxe. 



Leaves ascending, suberect, complicate-conduplicate. 



(16) Ij. laxum, J»r. 



United with L. carinatum Des^\ by intermediates. 

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