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Becc. Polin., 3 & 6; Microlepia moluccana, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, Suppl., 15 ; 

 — var. stenolobum, Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., 2« S^rie, VI, 1005. 



Rhizome creeping or suberecl, clothed with large, pale-brown, lanceolate 

 scales. Stipes strong, erect, to 40 c.M. long, + naked. Fronds deltoid to 

 lanceolate, 3-pinnate to 4-pinnatifid, 60 — 120 c.M. long, 20 — 55 c.M. broad. 

 Lower pinnae linear-lanceolate, to S — 15 c.M. broad, stalked. Pinnulae to 

 2 c.M. broad. Segments elliptical, the base decurrent, toothed or cut 

 down to the costa into toothed, oblong lobes in the lower part. Texture 

 membranous to subcoriaceous ; both surfaces ± naked. Sori 1—6 to a lobe, 

 small, placed in the teeth near the base; the apices of indusia often 

 produced beyond the margin of the lobes. 



Var. stenolobum : Pinnulae much narrower than in the type. 



Malaya; Polynesia; — var. stenolobum: Luzon. 



316. LEF»TOLEF»I^^, Mettenius. 



Sori roundish or transversally oblong, submarginal, solitary and terminal 

 on short veinlets, whether or not placed on marginal, recurved outgrowths. 

 Indusium of the same shape, fixed at the base, but by the apex of the veinlet 

 only, otherwise free, the outer edge lacerato-lobate, opening outwardly. 



Rhizome creeping and hairy (as far as known). Stipes not articulate to 

 the rhizome. Fronds copiously divided; veins free. Diels, in Engl, k PrantI, 

 Nat. Pfl.Fam., I, fig. 115, A— B. 



Australia and Papua. 



li. nOTae gliineae, «. a. v>. R.; Davallia Novae Guineae, RsL, Fed., 

 Rep., V, 36. 



Rhizome and stipes unknown. Fronds large, ± 2 M. long, + 1 M. 

 broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 4-pinnatifid to 4-pinnate. Pinnae on stalks 

 3 — 5 c.M. long, subfalcate or erecto-patent, subsymetrical, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 the anterior side a little broader than the posterior one, the apex serrato- 

 pinnatifid. Pinnulae and tertiary segments of ihe same shape as the pinnae, 

 the former to 20 c.M. long and 8 c.M. broad, the latter to 5 c.M. long and 

 + 1^4 c.M. broad at the base. Quaternary segments sessile, subereclo-paten(, 

 narrowed at the base, decurrent, elongate-ovate, acute, the edge obtusely 

 serrato-dentate,' the lowest to 10 m.M. long and 4 m.M. broad. Texture char- 



