﻿40 3. ALSOPHILA. 



(23) A. batjaneuitiis, Christ, Warb., Mons., I, 90. 



Caudex + 5 M. high. Sli|ies very aculeate, the prickles short, conical; 

 rachis rough, less prickly, yellowish-brown. Fronds deltoid, 3-pinnatifid, 

 ICO c.M. and more long. Pinnae 8 — 10, very distant, petiolate, deltoid-ovate, 

 8-^10 c.M. long, + 6 c.M. broad, short-acuminate. Pinnulae distant, deeply 

 incised; segments obtuse, ligulate-ovate, 6 — 8 m.M. long, ± 3 m.M. broad, 

 serrate. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked, the under one not glaucous; 

 veins simple, conspicuous. Sori small, not close, medial. 



* (24) A. melanopiis, Massle., Journ. of Bot., VII, 525. 



Stipe very aculeate and densely scaly at the base, the rest rough like 

 the rachis, the scales large, blackish, deciduous. Fronds 3-pinnatifld, ovate- 

 oblong, acute. Pinnae elongate-oblong and acute, or lanceolate-oblong and 

 acuminate. Pinnulae linear-oblong, deeply pinnatifid. Ultimate segments linear- 

 oblong, obtuse or subacute, subfalcate, obscurely crenato-serrate. Texture 

 membranaceous ; under surface slightly glaucous ; costulae clothed with minute, 

 deciduous scales. Sori near the costulae, at length confluent. 



Java. 



(25) A. ornata, Scott, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 460; Bedd., Ferns Br.I., 

 II, tab. CCCXLII; — var. sikkimensis, Bedd., Journ. of Bot, XXXI, 225; 

 A. sikkimensis, Clarke 4' Bk., Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., XXIV, 409. 



Stipe paleaceous at the base, slightly muricate and as well as the main 

 rachis glossy, purplish-brown. Fronds 3-pinnatifid. Pinnae oblong-lanceolate, 

 rather abruptly contracted into a short, deeply pinnatifid apex. Pinnulae 

 nearly all petiolate, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, deeply cut down nearly to 

 the costa. Ultimate segments ovate in the sterile, narrow-oblong in the fertile 

 pinnulae, serrate, slightly falcate. Texture herbaceo-membranaceous ; costae 

 slightly hairy above and scaly below ; veins forked, or a few 3-branched. Sori 

 subcostular, occupying the lower half of the lobes (conf. Beddome's drawing). 



War. isikkiiueuisiis : Stipe and main rachis more prominently mu- 

 ricate. 



Sikkim ; — var. sikkimensis : Malacca ; Sikkim. 



* (26) A. erinita, UU., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 42; Hk., Icon. PI., VII, tab. 

 DCLXXI; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. LIX. 



Stipe and main rachis strongly muricate, stramineous-broMrn, long-hispido- 



