﻿5. AtSOPHILA. S5 



* (4) A. Burbidgei, «fc., Journ. of Bot., XVII, 38. 



Fronds ample, o-pinnatifid. Stipe and rachis densely covered with long, 

 linear, acuminate, yellow-brown, membranaceous scales to 2 c.M. long and 

 with very fine, long and soft, brownish hairs to 8 m.M. long. Pinnae oblong- 

 lanceolate, 50 c.M. or more long, acuminate, + 10 c.M. broad at the base, 

 the rachis bairy like the main one. Pinnulae sessile or subsessile, 4 — 7 c.M. 

 long, 1 — I'/a c.M. broad, cut '/^ — Vs'Way down into oblong, blunt, subentire 

 lobes ± 3 m.M. broad. Texture herbaceous, but firm; colour dark above, 

 paler beneath; costae hairy and the veins slightly so beneath; veins 4 — 5- 

 jugate, simple or forked. Sori medial, occupying the lower veins. — The des- 

 cription is taken from a specimen gathered by Hallier, determined by Christ 

 (Ann. Btz., XX, 138). 



Borneo. 



* (5) A., squaiiiiilata, Hfe. (not Melt.), Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 33; 

 A. comosa, Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 41; Hk., Spec. Fil., I, tab. XX, A; 

 Bedd., Ferns Br.I, I, tab. LXXXIV. 



Stipes to 30 c.M. long, rough, paleaceous with light-brown, linear-subulate 

 scales ± 2'/2 c.M. long. Fronds ovate, narrowed towards both ends, to 180 

 c.M. long: main rachis setose or tawny-villous above, the rest naked or 

 paleaceous. Pinnae 35 — 50 c.M. long, lanceolate, stalked, slightly narrowed 

 towards the base. Pinnulae close, sessile or short-stalked, linear, acuminate, 

 15—20 c.M. long, 10 — 15 m.M. broad, the base truncate, the edge cut 

 V2 — ^/3-way down to the costa with narrow sinusses. Lobes close, + crenu- 

 late, to 4 m.M. broad, oblong, blunlish, slightly falcate. Texture herbaceous; 

 surfaces glabrous; colour yellowish-green; secondary rachises like the main 

 one; costulae pinnate in the lobes, naked or slightly scaly beneath; veins 

 simple or forked. Sori medial, 1 — 5 or rarely more on each side of the 

 costulae, occupying the lower veins. 



Malaya. 



* (6) A.. ilai*|;arethae, Schroet., Ann. Btz., XX, 136. 



Main rachis unarmed, rough, hairy above, the hairs castaneous, not short, 

 intermixed with long, pale-coloured scales. Pinnae short-stalked, + 40 c.M. 

 long, + 15 c.M. broad, ovate-oblong, acuminate. Pinnulae sessile, + 25 on 

 each side below the pinnatifid apex, ± 10—11 m.M. broad, close, lobed + 

 '/j-way down to the costa. Lobes pectinate, nearly imbricate, ± 4 m.M. long, 



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