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tifid, pinnate at the base (the auricle free, serrate or crenate); higher pinnae 

 toothed. Texture papyraceous; surfaces naked; veins distinct, forked, pinnate 

 in the auricles. Sori very oblique; indusium narrow, castaneous-fulvous. 

 Mindanao. 



(32) U. crioitum, C Chr., Ind. Fil.; Asplenium crinilum, B/c, 

 Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., XXIV, 2S8; A. sorzogonense, Pr., var. majus, Hk., 

 Spec. Fil, III, 252. 



Stipes strong, long, clothed like the rachis with lanceolate, castaneous, 

 crisped scales. Fronds oblong-lanceolate, 2-pinnatilid or 2-pinnate. Pinnae lan- 

 ceolate or the lower ones lanceolate-oblong, ± 15 c.M. long, with the largest 

 segments + 5 c.M. long, 1 — I'/j c.M. broad. Ultimate lobes parallel, oblong, 

 obtuse, 5 —9 m.M. broad. Texture membranaceous ; main veins pinnate ; 

 lower veins forked, oblique. Sori conflned to the inner half of the segments, 

 neither very close nor so regular. 



Borneo. 



* (53) I>. toiuentosuin, BL, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 179; Ferns 

 Br.I., II, tab. CXCV; Asplenium iomentosum, Hk. (not Metl.), Rac, Flor. Btz., 

 I, 226. 



Rhizome short, the scales dense, lanceolate-acuminate, black or dark-brown. 

 Stipes tufted, dark-brown, fibrillose above, scaly towards the base, ± 9 — 30 

 c.M. long. Fronds lanceolate, acuminate, 1 5 — 30 c.M. long ; rachis dark-brown, 

 fibrillose or villose ; the apex deeply pinnatifid with broadly serrate or crenate, 

 blunt, oblong lobes. Pinnae + 15 — 20 on each side, the highest oblong, 

 erecto-patent, blunt, sessile with a broad base, slightly auricled above, the 

 edge crena to-serrate ; central pinnae sessile or subsessile, spreading, ± 3 — 3^2 

 c.M. long, 5 — 8 m.M. broad, blunt or acute, the upper base truncate-auricula- 

 te, the lower base truncate, rounded or broadly cuneate, the edge distinctly 

 toothed; lowest pinnae stalked, deflexed, lanceolate, + 4 — 5 c.M. long, blunt 

 or acuminate, ± I'/i c.M. broad at the centre, the edge cut down '/i — '/4 

 on the way to the costa, the segments oblong, blunt, erecto-patent, serrate 

 or crenate, the lowest anterior segment (auricle) free, deflexed. Texture co- 

 riaceous; surfaces naked; costae and veins distinct, fibrillose beneath; main 

 veins pinnate in the lobes, 1 — 2 X forked in the teeth of the central pinnae ; 

 veins often ± hairy. Sori rather few, slightly recurved, reaching + the 

 midrib and the margin. 



Malaya. 



