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War. hemiteliiformiis : Pinnulae 6—9 c.M. long, 8—12 m.M. 

 broad; edges ciliate; sori close. 



Var. digitata : Fronds digitate. 



Malaya; Polynesia, South. China, North. India; — var. hemiteliiformis: 

 Java; — var. digilata: Celebes. 



* (5) P. gigantea, J'r., Rac, Plor, Btz., 1, 19o; P. Trimeni, Bedd., 

 Handb. Ind. Ferns, 223; Sagenia gigantea, Moore, Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. LXXX; 

 Aspidium giganteum, BL, Enum., 159 ; C.Chr., Ind. Fil., p.p. 



Caudex erect, to + 8 c.M. high, clothed with ovate-lanceolate, rigid, 

 entire scales. Stipes to 30—60 c.M. long, scaly at the base. Fronds 30—90 

 c.M. long, to 45 c.M. broad, 2-pinnatifid. Pinnae sessile' or short- stalked, lan- 

 ceolate to linear, the edge cut to ^/s — 7u"Way down into erecto-palent, subfalcate, 

 entire, crenate or sinuate lobes. Lowest pinnae to 12 c.M. broad, the apex 

 acuminate, the base obliquely truncate or cuneate, medial pinnae to 5 c.M. 

 broad, the higher ones decurrent. Texture herbaceous to submembranaceous ; 

 veins forming about 5 — 4 rows of costal areolae and about 1 row of costular 

 ones. Sori numerous, in 1 or rarely 2 rows on each side of the costulae. 



Malaya ; Ceylon, South. India. 



(6) P. ineMBbraiiifolia, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Farns, 235, fig. 

 115; Nephrodium membrani folium, Pr., Hk., Spec. Fil., IV, tab. CCLXI ; 

 Aspidium m.embrani folium, Kze. (not Pr.), Diels, in Engl, k Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 

 Fam., P, 188 : C. Ghr., Ind. Fil. 



Stipes tufted, clothed with black, linear, subulate scales, but more copiously 

 towards the base, ± 30 c.M. long. Fronds to 30 c.M. or more long, deltoid 

 to ovate, pinnate, the apex pinuatifid. Lateral pinnae in few pairs, + opposite, 

 5 — 10 C.M. long, 3 — 4 c.M. broad, more or less deeply pinnatifid, the segments 

 rounded, nearly entire; lowest pair of pinnae largest, deltoid, pinnatifid or 

 subpinnate, with the lower basal segments elongate and pinnatifid. Rachis 

 and surfaces + softly hairy; texture softly herbaceous. Fertile fronds similar 

 to the barren ones or + contracted. Sori generally terminal on free veinlest, 

 in 1 row on each side of the costulae; indusium reniform. 



Malacca, [? Malaya). 



* (7) P. Bakeri, «. A. v. R.f Nephrodium giganteum, Bk., Hk. Bk., 

 Syn Fil., 503; Aspidium giganteum, Copel. (not BL), Polypod. Philipp., 38; (? 

 BL, C. Ghr., Ind. Fil., p.p.). 



