﻿42 3. ALSOPHILA. 



Var. lietulosa.: Costae and costulae clothed beneath with moderately 

 long, whitish, subulate bristles especially in the barren portions. 

 Trop. Aula. — The varieties in Malaya, chiefly Celebes or Java. 



(28) A. Christii, ». A. ». Je.,« A. comosa, Christ (not Wall.), Ann. 

 Btz., XV, 80. 



Stipes strong, ± 2 c.M. thick, pale-brown, rough with numerous, minute, 

 acute warts, not scaly. Fronds large ; main rachis slightly rough and strigulose. 

 Pinnae sessile, ± 40 c.M. long, + 8 c.M. broad, lanceolate. Pinnulae spreading, 

 acuminate, + ^^ c.M. broad, pinnate. Ultimate divisions (leaflets) lanceolate- 

 falcate, obtuse, ± 3 m.M. broad, the apex rounded, crenate. Texture herba- 

 ceous; costae clothed above with short, whitish hairs and covered beneath 

 with scattered, brown, bullate scales; veins forked. Sori large, yellowish- 

 brown, 6—8 on each side, not reaching to the apex of the ultimate segments. 



Celebes. 



* (29) A. Iruiieata, nracU., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil, 39; Hemitelia 

 Iruncata, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 81, tab. XIII, fig. 4. — var. nivea, Christ in 

 Sebum. & Laut , Flor. deut Sch.geb., Suppl, 36. 



Main & second, rachises dark-purple or brownish, glossy, muricate, deci- 

 duously furfuraceo-tomentose as well as the costae and costulae beneath. Fronds 

 3-pinnate. Pinnae 25 — 45 c.M. long, 10 — 12 c.M. broad, oblong, acuminate. 

 Pinnulae to 7 '/^ c.M. long, to 1 Ya c.M. broad, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 numerous (25 — 30 on each side), pinnate, the short apex pinnatifid. Ultimate 

 segments to 12 m.M. long, to 3 m.M broad, herbaceous, firm, the lower ones 

 + petiolafe, the base subauriculate or hastate, the margin roundly crenate, 

 recurved. Costules thick and prominent, bullato-squamulose ; veins simple or 

 forked; colour bright-green above, paler beneath. Sori small, dark-orange, lax, 

 near the costulae; indusium consisting of a narrow, flat, thin, orbicular scale. 



I'ar. nivea: Fronds 2 — 2V2 M. long, + l'/2M. broad; under surface 

 covered with adpressed, white tomentum. 



Celebes, Batjan, New Guinea; Fiji, Samoa; — var. nivea: New Guinea. 



(30) ? A. ce1e1»ii*a, Mett., Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., I, 53; 1 Cyalhea 

 celebica, BL, Enum., 245. 



Fronds + tripinnatisect ; main rachis ferrugineo-hirsute in the upper 

 portion, subfurfuraceous, scaly and slightly aculeate or rough in the lower 

 portion. Pinnae + 30 c.M. long or longer. Pinnulae approximate, ± 10 



