﻿236 25. ASPIDIUM. § 1. TECTARIA. 



IS — 40 c.M. long, ebeneous, naked or covered with numerous, minute, ad- 

 pressed, glandlike, brown hairs, scaly at the base. Fronds 10 — 25 c.M. each 

 way, palmately and more or less deeply 3 — 5-fid, cordate at the base. Ter- 

 minal lobe ± triangular, acuminate, lateral ones similar but smaller, the 

 basal ones sometimes blunt. Texture papyraceo-herbaceous to subcoriaceous ; each 

 lobe with a prominent midrib ; main veins distinct to the edge, connected by 

 copious areolae, with free veinlets. Sori small, scattered, abundant; indusium 

 peltate or reniform, often absent. 

 Malaya. 



(4) A. calcareuiu, J»r., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 259; Mett., Farng., IV, 

 Phegop. & Aspid., tab. XVIII, fig. 1 — 3 ; Tectom ca/carea, Co^e/., Philipp. Journ., 

 II, 415. 



Rhizome subrepent. Slipes approximate, naked, 10 — 15 c.M. long. Fronds 

 30 c.M. or more long, 15 — 25 c.M. broad, with 4-6 stalked, distant, acumi- 

 nate pinnae on each side below the pinnatifid apex, the lowest triangular, to 

 15 c.M. long, 7 — 10 c.M. broad, cut down to the rachis below in stalked, 

 lanceolate, deeply and bluntly lobed pinnulae, the upper part lobed or more 

 or less pinnatifid. Texture semicoriaceous ; areolae very irregular, with free 

 veinlets. Sori submarginal; indusium small, peltate or reniform. 



Philippines. 



* (5) A. angulatuin, J. Sm., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 258. 



Stipes 30 — 60 c.M. long, glossy, ebeneous, scaly below. Fronds 30 — 60 

 c.M. long, sometimes simple, usually with a large, cordate, entire or trifid 

 terminal pinna and 1 — 2 lateral ones on each side, the lowest 1^5 — 30 c.M, 

 long, 5 — 10 c.M. broad, often forked at the base with 2 — 3 branches* which 

 are often unequal. Texture papyraceo-herbaceous; midribs glossy, ebeneous; 

 main veins distinct to the edge; areolae fine, copious, with free, included 

 veinlets. Sori small, scattered, abundant; indusium minute, fugaceous. 



Malaya. 



(6a) A. Hunistleri, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, Suppl., 44. 



Stipe and rachis minutely pubescent. Fronds 30 — 45 c.M. long, deltoid- 

 ovate, pinnate. Upper pinnae narrow-lanceolate, + IS'/j c.M. long, 1 '/2 — 2 7i 

 c.M. broad, entire or with scalloped margins, lowest pair broad-deltoid, the 

 |0wer side produced towards the base into 5 — 4 long lobes, the largest lobes 



