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outer and upper edge sharply inciso-serrate, the upper base rounded or cune- 

 ate, the lower very narrowly cuneate. Rachis dark-coloured, firm, slightly 

 scaly; veins close, flabellate; no midribs. Sori radiant, narrow, long. — Re- 

 sembles A. adiantoides, C. Chr., but the pinnae suddenly narrowed from a 

 broad, unequally auricled base into a narrow point. 



New Guinea, Timor, Malacca; Tonkin, West. Africa, Trap. America. 



(50) A. Cesatianum, J»fc., Becc, Mai., Ill, 39; A. Wighlianum, 



Ces. (not Wall.), Fel. Becc. Polin., 4. 



Stipes + 30 c.M. long, greyish, scaly at the base, the scales few. large, 

 lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, brown. Fronds oblong-lanceolate, simply pinnate, 

 ± 45 c.M. long. Pinnae raultijugate, distant, lanceolate, erecto-palent, crenu- 

 late, obscurely stalked, obliquely cuneate at the base, the lower base reduced. 

 Texture firm ; surfaces naked ; veins conspicuous, erecto-patent, not closely 

 placed, commonly deeply forked. Sori oblong, parallel, medial on the veins; 

 indusium firm, naked, persistent. 



New Guinea. 



(51) A., crinicaule, Mtmce, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 208: A. Hancei, 

 Bk., Bot. Zeit., 1869, 130; A. falcatum, Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CXLI. 



Stipes densely tufted, 7—10 c.M. long, erect, dark-brown, fibrillose. Fronds 

 15 — 90 c.M. long, 4 — 12 c.M. broad, with 9—25 horizontal pinnae on each 

 side, which are 4 — 10 m.M. broad, the point blunlish, the edges irregularly in- 

 ciso-crenate, the upper base narrowed suddenly, sometimes auricled, the lower 

 obliquely cuneate, sometimes auricled. Texture subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, 

 fibrillose ; midribs not distinct ; veins subflabellale. Sori few, linear, oblique, 

 regular, not reaching to the edge. 



Philippines; Br. India, Soulh. China. 



« (52) A. acntiascalum, St., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 217; A. aniso- 

 donlum, Pr., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 205. 



Rhizome erect, the apex clothed with narrow, lanceolate, brown scales. 

 Stipes tufted, firm, erect, ± scaly, to 30 c.M. long. Fronds 30—70 c.M. 

 long, with numerous sessile or stalked, spreading or subfalcate pinnae on 

 each side. Pinnae acute or acuminate, the lowest hardly smaller, rather 

 larger than the next following ones, 4 — 10 c.M. long, ^4 — IV2 c.M. broad 

 near the base, the edges more or less inciso-crenate, the upper base broadly 

 cuneate or subtruncate, ± auricled or deeply incised, the lower rather 



