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late, simply pinnate. Leaflets + triangular, erecto-palent, + 3 m.M. broad, close, 

 sessile or short-stalked, the base + cuueate, the lower edge often curved upwards, 

 the apex rounded or bluntish, the upper margin toothed or lobed with 2 — 4 

 entire, rounded or trunctate teeth or lobes. Texture membranaceous; veins 

 simple or forked, often joining. Sori 1 — 2 to each lobe, the pairs often con- 

 fluent when the veins are joining. [Forma concinna = L. concinna, /. Sm.). 

 Trop. Asia, New Caledonia. 



(3) \a. blancia. Men., Linn., XXXVI, 80. 



Rhizome long, slender, branched, clothed with fugacious scales. Stipes 

 + 5 c.M. long, slender, stramineous like the rachis. Fronds ± ISc.M. long, 

 ± 15 m.M. broad, linear, acuminate, simply pinnate. Leaflets nmnerous, 

 imbricate, erecto-patent, sessile, 7 — 10 m.M. long, cuneate or obovate-cuneate, 

 bifid, the outer lobe commonly the broadest. Texture membranaceous; surfa- 

 ces naked; veins simple or forked, free or joining at the apex. Indusium 

 reniform or transversally oblong. 

 Java. 



(4) IL. delicatula, Christ, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Davallia delicatula, 

 Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 79, tab. XIV, fig. 11, a— b. 



Rhizome slender, filiform, wide-creeping, densely clothed with yellow- 

 brown scales. Fronds sessile, close, but not tufted, to 12 c.M. long and to 

 2^/2 c.M. broad, lanceolate, simply pinnate, narrowing gradually towards both 

 ends. Leaflets + 20 on each side of the rachis, to ± 1^/2 c.M. long and 

 to + 1 c.M. broad, the lower edge straight or slightly curved upwards, the 

 outer edge cut into + S rounded lobes ± 4 m.M. deep, the sinuses very 

 sharp. Texture thin, hyaline, flaccid; both surfaces naked; colour bright- 

 light-green. Sori placed in the lobes on a short distance below the apices, 

 blackish; indusium broad, subreniform, reaching to the edge. 



Celebes. 



* (5fl) Ij. adiaiitoifles, Xuhn, Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., IV, 278; 

 L. pulchella, Melt., Linn., XXXVI, 81; Davallia pulchella, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. 

 Fil., 93; Hk., Spec. Fil, I, tab. LIII, B; Aspidium adiantoides, BL, (oldest 

 name). 



Rhizome slender, wide-creeping. Stipes slender, wiry, erect, naked, 

 5— 7Vj c.M. long. Fronds 10—30 c.M. long, 1^^—^% c.M. broad, simply 

 pinnate. Leaflets slightly stalked, 7 — 12 m.M. long, to + 5 m.M. broad, the 



