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W&v. Teyi§iitaiiiBBa.iiaiiii: Pinnae wavy, broadly crenate or sinuate. 



V^ar. subtrlfoliatiiBU: Barren fronds with a broad, ovate, ter- 

 minal pinna to + 16 c.M. long, to ± 8 c.M. broad and below this com- 

 monly 1 pair of similar lateral pinnae. Fertile pinnae small, subentire, in 

 2 — 5 pairs. 



Malaya; Polynesia; — var. Teysmannianum : Sumalra, Celebes; — var. 

 subtrifoliatum : Celebes. 



* (40) A. pa€*h,y|ihylliiiBt, «:«», Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 229; 

 Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., l\ lig. 97, A— C; A. siifolium, Mell., 

 var. pachyphyllum, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, i38; Sigenia pachyphylla, Moore, 

 Rac, Flor. Biz., I, 195; Nephrodium pachyphyllum, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 

 299; Teclaria crenala, Cav., Copel., Philipp. Journ., II, 414, p. p. 



Caudex erect, to 10 c.M. high, the scales ovate-lanceolate, dark-brown. 

 Stipes 30 — 50 c.M. long, naked, brownish, scaly at the base. Fronds 60 — 100 

 c.M. long, + half as broad, with an oblong-lanceolate, entire or sinuate 

 terminal pinna 10 — 30 c.M. long, 2 — 5 c.M. broad, often deeply pinnatilid 

 at the base; below this 2 — 8 erecto-patent, entire or repand lateral pinnae 

 on each side, the lowest lobed, forked or pinnatilid on the lower side. Fer- 

 tile pinnae often narrower, or even ± contracted. Texture herbaceous to 

 chartaceous; main veins straight or slightly curved, distinct nearly to the 

 edge; areolae line, with copious free veinlcts. Sori large, in regular rows, 

 distant, on free veinlets; indusium entire. 



Malaya; Polynesia. 



(41) A. braehiiitisiii, Zolt. 4* Mof., Nat Geueesk. Arch., I, 399; 

 A. Zollingerianum, Kze, Bot. Zeit., i846, 462; A. imp^essum, Hh., Spec. Fil., 

 IV, 58; Nephrodium Zollingerianum, Bk., Hk Bk., Syn. Fil., 298. 



Stipes 20—30 c.M. long, naked. Fronds 20—30 c M. long, 15—20 c.M. 

 broad, subdeltoid. Terminal pinna deeply pinnatifid; below this 3 — 4 laleral 

 pinnae on each side, the lowest largest, long-stalked, deltoid, cut down below 

 into distinctly separated, deeply pinnatilid piunulae with blunt, linear-oblong 

 lobes. Texture subcoriaceous; veins beneath prominent, anastomosing princi- 

 pally in large coslular arches ; areolae large, with included free veinlets, 

 depressed so as to form cavities in which on the ends of the free veinlets 

 the large, copious sori are placed. 



Java. 



