﻿44 3. ALSOPHILA. 



I'/j — 272 c.M. broad. Segments close, free or slightly joined at the base, 

 ligulate, falcate, blunt, ± 2^/2 mM. broad, obscurely crenulate. Texture 

 subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; midribs below naked or furfuraceous ; veins 

 crowded, + 10— 12-jugate, forked. Soi'i minute, subcostular; receptacle pilose. 



l^ar. interiuedia : Ultimate segments broader; veins and sori more 

 distant. 



Java ^ Celebes to Polynesia; — var. intermedia: New Guinea; New 

 Caledonia. 



* (34) A. liirida. Hie., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 43. 



Stipes smooth ; rachis slightly scabrous and scaly below, densely tomentose 

 and scaly above. Fronds broadly lanceolate. Pinnae to + 30 c.M. long and 

 to 10 c.M. or more broad. Pinnulae more than 5 c.M. long, more than 1 

 c.M. broad, cut down to the rachis into linear-oblong, subfalcate, nearly entire 

 leaflets. Texture subcoriaceous ; upper surface dark-green, naked, under surface 

 densely furnished with linear scales on the rachis and costae. 



Java, Celebes. 



(55) A., minclanensis, Christ, Warb., Mons., I, 90. 



Rachis stramineous, unarmed, covered with a woolly, brown tomentum 

 and long, reddish-brown, fine, fibrillose scales. Pinnae ± 40 c.M. long, ovate, 

 subsessile. Pinnulae numerous, 20 — 30, ligulate-Ianceolate, ± 8 c.M. long, 

 short-acuminate, the lower ones pinnatifid quite to the costa. Segments 

 of the sterile pinnae ± 2 c.M. long, close, + 6 m.M. broad, deeply incised, 

 with the lobes ovate, bluntish, crenate; those of the fertile pinnae, smaller, 

 naiTower, rather distant, ligulate, entire or slightly crenulate. Texture very 

 coriaceous; costae fibrillose like the rachis; veins numerous, forked. Sori 

 minute, close to the central veins of the segments, not reaching the apex. 



Philippines. 



Species of an indefinite systematical place. 



(36) ? A. xantholepis, Christ, Diels, in Engl, k Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 

 Fam., P, 138. 



Fronds somewhat larger than in A. tristis, Bl. (which is Cystopteris tristis. 

 Melt.), becoming black when dried. 



Bat Jan. 



