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scales. Stipes 10 — 30 c.M. long, pale, erect, paleaceous below. Fronds 15 — 45 

 c.M. long, 7 — 15 c.M. broad, the barren ones ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at the 

 base or not. Pinnae numerous, close, lanceolate, subfalcate, the point acute or 

 blunlish, 5—10 c.M. long, V2— ^ c.M broad, the base not decurrent, slightly 

 dilated, lowest pinnae deJlexed. Texture coriaceous; veins fuie, prominent 

 beneath; surfaces and edges often hairy. Fertile pinnae linear, very narrow, 

 distant, suddenly dilated at the base, o'/i— 10 c.M. long. 



Java, Celebes ^ Luzon lo Polynesia, Queensland, Tasmania, Neiv-Zeeland. 



(5) Bj, e^eiiolfloicles, i»ft., Kew Bull., d894, 7; Blechnum egenol- 

 fioides, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome erect. Stipes densely tufted, 3'/2 — 13 c.M. long, the fertile fronds 

 on the longest stipes. Fronds simply pinnate, the barren ones 12 — 15 c.M. 

 long, 3 — 4 c.M. broad at the middle, the stipes slender, brown. Pinnae linear, 

 obtuse, crenate, the base auricled on both sides, lower pinnae deflexed, 

 gradually reduced. Texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; veins distant, 

 erecto-patenl, immersed, obscure, simple, the lower forked. Fertile fronds 

 2 — 2^/2 c.M. broad, with the pinnae narrower, more distant. 



Borneo. 



(4) I^. areolaris^, Harr., Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., XVI, 28; 

 Blechnum areolaie, CopeL, Polypod. Pbilipp., 90; G. Chr., Ind Fi\. ;S(enochlaena 

 areolaris, CopeL, Pbilipp. Journ., II, 406. 



Rhizome long, slender, naked, twisted. Stipes of barren fronds ±15 

 c.M. long. Barren fronds ovate, 10—15 c.M. long, 7 — 10 c.M. broad, pinnate. 

 Pinnae 7 — 9, subsessile, linear-lanceolate, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, acute, finely ser- 

 rate, the base truncate or rounded. Texture coriaceous; veins forming a 

 series of costal arches with free, simple or forked veins beyond; surfaces 

 naked; costae and veins slightly chaffy below. Fertile fronds on stipes ± 

 30 c.M. long, with the pinnae narrowly linear, 5V2— 5 c.M. long, rather dis- 

 tant. Indusium narrow. 



Philippines. 



(5) li. puucilllata, H«e, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 179; Blechnum punc- 

 tulalum, Sw., Ciu-ist, Panikr. d. Erde, 178; <1. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome stout, densely paleaceous at the crown. Stipes 7 — 15 c.M. long, 

 strong, erect. Barren fronds oblong-lanceolate, 30—60 c.M. long, 10 — 15 

 c.M. broad. Pinnae verv numerous, contiguous, linear, subfalcate, 5 — 1^\^ 



