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fronds. Stipes 10 — 15 c.M. long, naked or slightly scaly, the base clothed 

 with narrow, adpressed, linear-lanceolate scales like the rhizome. Fronds 

 20 — 80 c.M. long, 8 — 15 c.M. broad. Pinnae close or the lower ones rather 

 distant, not imbricate, bluntish or subacute, the upper base auricled, the 

 lower rounded or auricled, the edge entire, crenate or serrulate; fertile 

 pinnae linear, acute, often + falcate and longer than the barren ones. Tex- 

 ture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked or nearly so. Sori submarginal; indusium 

 reniform, with a deep sinus. 



Var. moiijsti'iioisa is a much cultivated form with 1 — 5 X forked 

 pinnae. 



Pantropical. 



* (14) M. Iiiiserrata, Schott, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; N. acuta, Pr., Rac, 

 Flor. Btz., I, 202; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. XCIV; Aspidium acutum, Schk., 

 Muell., Pap. PI., IV, 79; iV. acuminata, Pr., Tent. Pterid., 79; N. punctulata, 

 Pr., 1. c; Aspidium biserratum, Sw., (oldest name); — var. laurifolia, Christ, 

 Farnkr. d. Erde, 289, fig. 907, d & e. 



Caudex short, erect, stoloniferous, densely clothed with lanceolate, brown, 

 entire or more or less irregularly ciliate scales. Stipes tufted, 10 — 50 c.M. 

 long, scaly at the base, glabrescent above. Fronds 30 — 400 c.M. long, 15 — 40 

 c.M. broad, pendulous if epiphytical. Pinnae linear-lanceolate, short-stalked or 

 sessile, 1 — 3 c.BI. broad, separated by less than their own breadth, the point 

 acute, the edge entire when barren, crenate, toothed or repand when fertile, the 

 base suddenly narrowed or truncate, not or slightly auricled on the upper 

 on both sides, the lower base sometimes rounded. Texture herbaceous or 

 subcoriaceous; rachis and costae naked or slightly scaly; surfaces naked 

 or nearly so. Sori generally distant from the margin; indusium subreniform, 

 rather becoming orbicular by the meeting of the 2 broad, basal lobes. 



War. laurifolia: Pinnae broad, ovate-oblong or broadly linear-lance- 

 olate, the edges subentire or sometimes irregularly inciso-lobate towards the 

 base, the base truncate, rounded or broadly cuneate. Sori medial between 

 the midrib and the margin. 



Pantropical; — var. laurifolia: in a few malayan islands. 



