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Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. GCXXXV ; Gymnosphaern sqxiamulata, J. Sm. (not 

 BL), Ban. & Hk., Gen. Fil., tab. C. 



Stipes paleaceous, the base tuberculate-asperous. Fronds 3-pinnatifid, the 

 main rachis dark-purple-ebeneous like the stipe and slightly squamose, (tomen- 

 tose above.?). Pinnae ± 45 c.M. long, 15 — 20 c.M. broad, stalked. Pinnulae 

 rather distant, stalked, linear, acuminate, the point serrulate, the base truncate, 

 the edge cut + V2"Way down to the cosla. Segments oblong, obtuse, rotundato- 

 serrate ; the margin slightly thickened or recurved. Texture coriaceous ; costulae 

 with a few deciduous, bullate scales; veins simple or forked. Sori mostly 

 confined to the lower part of the lobes, the higher ones close to the costulae, 

 the lower slightly divaricating; capsules mixed with paraphyses, which are 

 clavate at the apex. 



Malacca, Bat j an. 



(10) A. trichoclesma, Scort., Journ. of Bot., XXV, 321. 



Stipes scaly at the base. Fronds 120 — 180 c.M. long, 3-pinnatifid, the 

 main rachis scabrid above, clothed with adpressed, spreading, semi-viscous, copious, 

 jointed hairs. Pinnae short-stalked, narrow-lanceolate, 60 — 75 c.M. long, 15 — 20 

 c.M. broad, the rachis stramineous, hairy like the main one. Pinnulae linear- 

 lanceolate, + 2 c.M. broad, cut down nearly to the costa in(o linear, obtuse, 

 crenulate, rather distant segments. Texture thinly herbaceous; surfaces hairy 

 like the main rachis, principally on the veins; costulae pinnate; veins forked, 

 7 — 8 on each side. Sori medial, 5 — 6 on each side of the costulae. 



Malacca. 



(11) A. (scalierula, Christ, Schum. &Laut., Flor. deut. Sch.geb., 110. 

 Stipes yellowish-brown, covered with short, often glanduligerous hairs and 



with numerous minute, acute warts. Fronds large, + 2 M. long, 3-pinnatifid. 

 Pinnae sessile, + 45 c.M. long, lanceolate; rachis clothed with narrow, short 

 scales. Pinnulae + 8 c.M. long, broadly lanceolate, short-acuminate, not 

 caudate, alternate, distant, + 2 c.M. broad, sessile, cut down nearly to the 

 costa into ± close, falcate, broadly ligulate, obtuse lobes, which are regularly 

 serrato-crenate. Texture thin, herbaceous, flaccid; veins conspicuous, forked, 

 12 — 14 on each side; surfaces naked, but the costae bullato-squamose beneath. 

 Sori occupying the lower portions of the lobes, nearly close to the costulae; 

 receptacle globose. 

 New Guinea. 



