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densely clothed with brown acuminate reticulated scales. Stipites 
op aes or apart, erect, slender, naked, channelled, stramineous, 
in. long, 5-6 in. 
3-1 ft. long or over. Fronds bi ipinnatifid, 9-12 
a, truncate at the _ reduced upwards to a ing acuminate 
pinnatifid terminal pinna. Texture chiebeteniii pellucid. Surfaces 
naked and glossy ; palit light green. Rachis slender, channelled, 
stramineous. Pinne spreading, the lower ones, which are not 
reduced, horizontally, apart, acumin ate, 3-34 in. long, 4-3 in. wide, 
the upper ones broadest at the base ‘and sessile, the lower one 
Segments close or with a — open sinus paprce oblique, 
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blunt-acute, often pointleted, 4-5 1. long, 1-1} 1 eins 
simple or forked in the inferior aca oblique, 7-10 y a side, 
the lowest pair entering at or above the sinus. not seen.— 
Belongs to the Serra and Sloanei groups, but the fepktieas is not rigid. 
N. Filiv-mas Rich. — A most in interesting discovery, for which I 
have looked for years, made now by Mr. Morris. This appears to 
be the first discovery of this species in the West ee and the 
form is exactly that common on the tr ne mainlan 
puberulous, channelle Fronds erect, 2 ft , 6-8 in. wide, 
the base gradually reduced to cs Sepa 4-1 in. long, ‘the acuminated 
apex com atis terminating 1 entire rather obtuse point. 
Inne humerous, spreading, with & a space their over width, more 
or less, betwee a a sagaile and free at the base, where they are 
auricled and broadest, 34-44 in. long, 5-6 1. wide, eee lobed 
obliquely rounded, and entire. Substance firm, pellucid, very dark 
green. Rachis channelled and with the ribs freely puberulous. 
See va ae cage , 3-5 to a side, the lowest pair united and 
Sending a h to the sinus, above which the next pair enter. 
Sori close pe “the — Involucres small, fugacious. — Comes 
next NV, usitatum Jenman, from which the smaller size, gradually 
reduced lower part of 4 the fronds, narrower less acuminate pinne 
with save Bh basal lobes distinguish it. 
Pol, mbatum, n. sp. — Stipites densely tufted, 
short or ae any clear. Fronds erect or erecto-spreading, 
~8 in. long, 13-2 1. broad, linear, narrowed at base, the apex 
bluntish-pointed, deeply pinnatifid. Segments close, rounded, 
Opaque, coriaceous; surfaces 
Spreading a sori at the base of the lobes near the rachis, 
borne on the spur of the short dark veins, the dark brown hairs 
protruding fete tween the sporangia. — Near P. truncicola Klotzsch 
and 1’, vryanense Mett. 
