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* (17a) A. squaneuSatiiin, Bl., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 210; Tham- 

 nopleris stipitala, Pr., Epim., 68; — var. sessile. 



Rhizome short, creeping or erect. Stipes ± tufted, 5 — 20 c.M. long, strong, 

 erect, scaly like the costa, the scales persistent or more or less deciduous. 

 Fronds 50 — 100 c.M. long, 5 — 10 c.M. broad, lanceolate, the apex bluntish, 

 acute or acuminate, the edge entire or nearly so, the base narrowed gradually 

 into the stipe. Texture coriaceous; surfaces scaly at least when young, the 

 scales scattered, adpressed, minute; veins not very distinct, simple or 1 — 2X 

 forked, ± 2 '/a m-M. apart. Sori reaching from near the midrib to l> — lo 

 m.M. of the margin; indusium broad, membranaceous, naked. 



War. sesisile: Stipes short or wanting. Fronds 20 — 25 c.M. long, 

 SVj — S'/j c.M. broad; veins rather close; indusium + coriaceous. — United 

 with the type by intermediate forms (e. g. forma calvescens, Christ, in Ann. 

 Btz„ XX, 111). 



Malaya; — var. sessile: Borneo (Teuscher). 



(176) A. l¥epneri, je*f., Fed., Rep.. V, 39. 



Rhizome short-creeping, at length suberect, densely clothed with lanceolate, 

 fusco-ferrugineous, entire or slightly fimbriate scales. Stipes subfasciculate, firm, 

 10 — 20 c.M. long, + densely brown-scaly. Fronds ovate-elongate, to 45 c.M. 

 long, to 6 c.M. broad, the apex obtuse and abruptly acuminate, the base neorly 

 rounded or short-decurrent upon the stipe, the edge entire or obscurely repand. 

 Texture chartaceous; upper surface olive-green and slightly scaly, lower livid- 

 green and copiously scaly ; costa prominent, scaly ; veins erecto-patent, simple 

 or forked, ± l^/j m.M. apart, parallel. Sori occupying the lower ^/^ of the 

 veins; indusium entire. 



New Guinea. 



* (18) A. gloebidialuiii, Uac, Bull. Ac. Crac, d902, 62; A. 

 echinosporum, Rac, MS. in Herb. Bog. 



Rhizome creeping, ascending, the scales light-brown, adpressed, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, covered with short hairs near the base. Stipes + 1 c.M. apart, 

 6 — 10 m.M. long, black, scaly. Fronds simple, 25 — 35 c.M. long, ± 5 c.M. 

 broad, narrowed gradually towards both ends, but more or less suddenly at 

 the apex into an acuminate point and towards the base into a narrow wing to the 

 costa, the margin crenate, the lower, narrowed part entire. Texture chartaceous, 

 surfaces glossy, naked except in the lower part; costa prominent on both sides, 

 black and scaly at the base, green in the higher part ; veins parallel, suboblique, 



