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long, covered with ovate-acuniinate, scariose, ochreous scales ± */2 ^•^^- ^^^S- 

 Fronds + 60 c.M. long, + 28 c.M. broad, ovate-elongate, acuminate, narrowed 

 towards the base. Pinnae sessile, close, spreading, ± 30 on each side below 

 the pinnatilid apex, the central ones the longest, bluntish, + 3 c.M. broad. 

 Pinnulae close, + 25 on each side, sessile, ovate-elongate, obtuse, ± '/, c.M. 

 broad, cut down nearly to the costa, the segments ovate, ± 7 on each side, 

 apiculate or obtuse, ± iVj m.M. broad. Texture herbaceous; upper surface 

 dark-green, the under one paler, not glaucous; rachis ochreo-stramineous, 

 short-hairy, covered like the costae with scariose, whitish, lanceolate, acute 

 scales, the costulae covered with broadly ovate scales; veins conspicuous, 

 3 — 4-jugate. Sori minute, 3 — 4 to each ultimate segment, placed at the bases 

 of the veins; receptacle punctiform or hardly elevated; indusium none. 

 New Guinea. 



* (19) A. latebrosa. Wan. (not Hk), Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 43 ; Bedd., 

 Ferns S.I., tab. LVIII; Hemilelia latehrosa. Melt., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 39. 



Stipes dark-brown, aculeate towards the base, muricate upwards; main 

 rachis muricate towards the base. Fronds 3-pinnatifid, to 2 M. long, to 1 M. 

 broad; rachises often covered with long, linear, fine, brown, deciduous scales 

 on the upper side. Pinnae lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, stalked, 30 — 60 c.M. 

 long, 12 — 20 c.M. broad, the rachis + tomentose above. Pinnulae linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, subsessile, ± l^j — 2 c.M. broad, the base subtruncate, 

 the edge deeply pinnatifid into linear-oblong, blunt, subfalcate, crenate or 

 slightly toothed lobes + 2 m.M. broad. Texture firm-herbaceous; surfaces 

 naked or the under one slightly hairy, under surface not glaucous ; costae and 

 costulae more or less scaly beneath with + buUate scales; veins forked. Sori 

 on the 1 — 7 lower veins, nearly costular; receptacle often with a minute, 

 spurious indusium at the inner side. 



Malaya ; North. India. 



* (20) it., jiapai'uensis, r. A. v. R. 



Stipes aculeate ; main rachis slightly so towards the base ; secondary 

 rachises somewhat rough towards the base with few, scattered, minute warts 

 and covered like the main one with copious, very fine, ± deciduous, crisped, 

 yellowish or brownish, fibril-like hairs. Central pinnae + 43 c.M. long, 12— 16 

 c.M. broad, lanceolate, acuminate. Pinnulae sessile or subsessile, the 

 lower ones spreading, smaller than the central ones, which are ± 1 V2 c-M. 

 .broad, cut down nearly to the costa. Lobes ± close, oblong, blunt, crenate 



