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7*/.2 c.M. broad, with numerous sessile or short-stalked pinnae, the lower 

 ones growing smaller very gradually, the central ones spreading, + close, 

 4 — 7 m.M. broad, the point bluntly rounded, the upper and outer edge inciso- 

 lobale to toothed, the upper base broadly cuneate, + auricled, the lower 

 very narrowly cuneate. Texture herbaceous to subcliartaceous; i-achis firm, 

 greyish, nearly naked ; veins oblique, inconspicuous or more distinctly visible, 

 those of the upper base subflabellate. Sori few, those on the lower side 

 nearly parallel to the costa. 

 Borneo, Malacca. 



* (38) Ik., teneriliii, Forst., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 215; A. elongatum, 

 Sw., ? Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CCXXIV; — var. acuminatum, Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 Ill, 117; A. Doreyi, Kze, Anal., 23. 



Rhizome erect, clothed with lanceolate, brown scales at the apex. Stipes 

 lufled, firm, erect, greyish, nearly naked, 5—25 c.M. long. Fronds 15 — 50 

 c M. long, + o'/i — 10 c.M. broad, lanceolate-oblong, with 10 to numerous 

 sessile or ± stalked, horizontal pinnae on each side. Pinnae oblong or linear- 

 oblong, ^/^ — 2 c.M. broad, the sides ± parallel in the typical form, the apex 

 bluntly rounded or subtruncate, the edge deeply crenato-dentate throughout; 

 the upper base + truncate, slightly auricled, the lower cuneate. Texlure 

 herbaceous, not rarely firm; rachis naked or slightly scaly; surfaces naked; 

 veins commonly simple. Sori numerous, regular, linear-oblong, parallel, not 

 reaching either the midrib or the edge. 



War. adiininatiini: Pinnae acute or nearly acuminate at the point.. 



Trap. Asia. 



* (39) A. Iiinulatuiii, Sw., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 202; A. erectum, 

 Bory, ? Hk., Fil. Exot., tab. LXXII, (var. proliferum). 



Rhizome short, slightly scaly. Stipes tufted, nearly naked, grey or dark- 

 coloured. Fronds 15 — 45 c.M. long, + S'/i — 472 c.M. broad, linear-lanceolate, 

 with 10 to numerous horizontal pinnae on each side. Pinnae close, subtra- 

 pezoid-oblong, narrowed towards the bluntish or acute apex in the type, '/2 — 1 

 c.M. broad, the edge inciso-crenate throughout; the upper base truncate, slightly 

 auricled, the lower cuneate. Texture herbaceous; rachis naked like the sur" 

 faces; veins mostly simple. Sori short, oblong, falling short of both edge 

 and midrib. — Near A. tenerum, Forst., but did'erent from it by the less 

 blunt pinnae. 



Panlropicul. 



