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pair; indusium often very hairy. — Some specimens have the lovs^est pinnae 

 suddenly reduced and much deflexed, hut not distant from the others. 

 Malacca. 



(107) D. microct&lailiys, ». A. v. R.; Nephrodium microchlamys, 

 Bk., Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., XV, 107 ; Mesochlaena polycarpa, Bedd., var., 

 C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome + erect. Stipes + IS c.M. long, pale-hrown, scaleless, finely 

 pilose. Fronds oblong-lanceolate, 60 — 90 c.M. long, 50 — 40 c.M. broad, 

 2-pinnatifid. Pinnae in + 40 pairs below the small, entire, terminal one, sessile, 

 linear-ligulate, the largest, 20 — 22^2 m-M. broad, the lower not reduced, cut 

 down to a broad wing into close, blunt, entire, rather ascending lobes ± 

 3 — S'/a m.M. broad, the lowest anterior lobe slightly elongated. Texture 

 membranaceous ; surfaces finely villose and densely covered with minute, 

 pale-brown glands; veins 12 — 16-jugate, the lowest anastomosing, the next 

 meeting at the sinus. Sori round, minute, in regular rows nearer the main 

 veins than the edge. 



Kei Islands. 



(108) D. glaueostipes, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium glaucostipes, 

 Bedd., Handb. Ind. Perns, Suppl., 80. 



Rhizome erect or suherect. Stipes scaly at the base, glaucous as is the 

 main rachis. Fronds 90 — 120 c.M. long, pinnate. Central pinnae 12 — 15 c.M. 

 long, 2 — 2 '/a c.M. broad, cut down V2""^^y ^^^^ oblong, rounded lobes, lower 

 pinnae very gradually reduced in size, becoming at first small and hastate or 

 semihastate, and at length mere auricles down to almost the base of the stipe. 

 Texture rather papyraceous; surfaces naked but the costae minutely villose 

 above; veins in + 10 pairs, the 2 lower ones anastomosing, all soriferous. 

 Sori medial. 



Malacca. 



(109) O. fterakeiisis, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodium perakense, 

 Bk., Ann. of Bot., V, 319; Aspidiitm perakense, Bedd., Journ. of Bot., XXVI, 4. 



Rhizome small, erect. Stipes slender, villous. Fronds pinnate, 30 — 35 

 c.M. long, 5 — 13 c.M. broad, oblong-lanceolate, the lower pinnae gradually 

 reduced. Central pinnae largest, 1 — 1^2 c.M. broad, cut + Va'^^Y down to 

 the costa into close, rather acute lobes. Texture softly herbaceous; rachis 

 and surfaces copiously furnished with long, white, soft hairs; veins 4 — 5 on 



