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each side, stalked, ± 20 c.M. Ions;, ± S'/j c.M. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 subserrate, the upper base broadly and the lower more narrowly cuneate. 

 Texture tough-herbaceous; surfaces naked; veins oblique, often forked, + con- 

 spicuous. Sori broad, occupying the lower half of the veins, moderately 

 regular. 



Mindanao. 



(43) A. persicifolium, J. Sm., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 202. 



Stipe and rachis grey, with few, scattered, minute, grey scales. Fronds 

 oblong-lanceolate, 60 — 90 c.M. long, often proliferous at the apex. Pinae distant, 

 ascending, 13 — 30 on each side, subpetiolate, 10 — 13 c.M. long, Hnear-ligulate, 

 acuminate, ± 1 — 2 c.M. broad, distinctly inciso-crenate throughout, obliquely 

 cuneate at the base, the lower base narrower; lower pinnae not reduced. 

 Texture thin but firm; surfaces naked; veins fine, forked, not close. Sori 

 regular, 7 — 10 m.M. long, reaching nearly to midrib and edge. 



Celebes, Borneo, Sulu Islands, Philippines. 



* (44) A. Schwggersii, ». A. ®. r., Bull. D6p. Agr. I. N., 

 1908, XVIII, 14. 



Stipes tufted, + '4 c.M. long, dark-brown, clothed like the rachis with 

 tine, diciduous scales. Fronds ovate-lanceolate, 8 — 10 c.M. long. Pinnae + 

 15 on each side, spreading, the lowest shorter, the central ones ± 2 c.M. 

 long, ± Va ^•^^- bi'oad, the point acute or bluntish, toothed, the edge lobed 

 Vs — V2"Way down, the lobes truncate or rounded and crenate, oblique like 

 the teeth, the base obliquely truncate-cuneate. Texture coriaceous; under sur- 

 face provided with few, very minute, deciduous, fimbriate scales; veins few, 

 oblique, simple or forked. Sori very small, subparallel and nearly close to 

 the costa, occupying the base of the veins. 



Java (Preanger Regencies, Lieut. Col. J. C. F. Schoggers). 



* (45) A. catitlatuiu, Forst., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 218; A. conti- 

 guum. Betid., Ferns S.I., tab. CXL; A. trmcatilobum, Fee, Christ, Philipp. 

 Journ., II, 164; A. arayalense, Christ. MS. 



Rhizome erect, the scales Imear-lanceolate, brown. Stipes tufted, firm, 

 erect, densely clothed with fine, fibrillose, brown scales. Fronds 25 — 100 c.M, 

 long, 10 — 25 c.M broad, with 20 — 30 pinnae on each side. Pinnae spreading, 

 1 — 272 c.M. broad, the apex long-acurainale, toothed, the edge cut to + V2"way 

 down or sometimes more at the liase into rounded, entire or crenate, oblique 



