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Rhizome horizontally creeping, clothed with ± adpressed, subulate, ciliate 

 scales. Stipes close or scattered, S'/j — 20 c.M long, articulate within 1—7 c.M. 

 from the base. Fronds 20 — 45 c.M. long, narrowed gradually towards both 

 ends. Texture herbaceous or membranaceous; midrib and both surfaces slight- 

 ly hairy. Sori in regular rows very near the midrib; indusium firm, oblique. 



Var. Sibalclii: Texture thinner; surfaces more hairy; sori in very 

 irregular, wavy lines, rather distant from the midrib. 



Miilaya; South. India, Assam, Cenlr. China, — var. Sibaldii: Sumatra, 

 Java, Timor; Tahiti. 



(8) O. tricholepiiS, Kxe, Bot. Zeit., i85i, 349. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales spreading, subulate, reddish-brown, large. 

 Stipes placed in distant tufts, elongate, slender, articulate with the fronds. 

 Fronds cuneate at the base, slightly hairy. Sori unknown. 



Bin'neo. 



* (9) O. H^hitiiieei, ^le., Journ. of Rot., XIV, 11; Engl., Bot Jahrb., 

 XXIII, tab. V, fig. 2—4; 0. ornala, Christ, Fil. Saras., Ill, 240. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, densely clothed with yellow, spreading, subulate 

 scales. Stipes naked, brown, articulate about the middle. Fronds to + 30 

 c.M. long, 4 — 3 c.M. broad, narrowed gradually towards the base, the apex 

 finely acuminate. Texture thin, the edge thickened, finely ciliate; upper sur- 

 face pubescent especially on the midrib; under side of the midrib regularly 

 clothed with 2 opposite rows of spreading, yellow, subulate scales. Sori 

 close, placed in 1 wavy row on each side near the midrib, sometimes in 2 

 close, irregular rows; indusium pale-yellowish, often subpeltate. 



Celebes, Philippines; Samoa. 



16. .A.TJ,TJHI2.0F»TEIMS, a. Smith. 



Sori roundish, terminal on the anterior veinlets of the once forked veins. 

 Indusium roundish-reniform, fixed by the sinus. 



Rhizome creeping or scandent. Stipes articulate to the rhizome. Fronds 

 pinnate; pinnae articulate to the rachis. 



A small genus, very near Nephrolepis, distinguished from this by the 

 articulated stipes. 



Paleotropical. 



