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(o6) A. ISaucii-Christophori, Christ, Schum. & Laut., Flor. 

 deut. Sch.geb., 128. 



Like A. macrophyllum, Sm., but the rachis strigoso-squamulose, the piuiiae 

 more numerous, (12 — IS on each side), smaller, broadly rhomboidal, inequilateral, 

 auriculate on the upper side, alternate, nearly sessile, growing shorter towards 

 the pinnatifid apex of the frond, the margin not incised but copiously and 

 minutely 2-serrate. 



New Guinea. 



* (57) A. macrophyllum, Sw., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 216; HJi., 

 Spec. Fil., Ill, lab. CXCVI— CXCVII ; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CXLII ; A. ca_ 



naliculalum, BL, Enum., 180; — var. minus. 



Rhizome short, the extremity clothed with long, narrow scales. Stipes 

 ± tufted, 15 — 50 c.M. long, stout, erect, brownish, nearly naked. Fronds 

 15—80 c.xM. long, 12—30 c.M. broad. Pinnae ± 6—12 on each side, 

 2'/i — 1% c.M. broad, the terminal one often large, not rarely 3-fid, the point 

 of all acute, the edge mostly sharply and irregularly toothed, not or slightly 

 lobed, the base obliquely aud broadly cuneate, the lower base narrower than 

 the upper. Texture + coriaceous; rachis naked or deciduously chaffy, Grm; 

 veins oblique, distinct beneath. Sori long, oblique, often reaching from the 

 midrib to the edge. — Near A. adiantoides, C. Chr., and scarcely different 

 from the latter in the smaller forms. 



War. mi SB US: Fronds smaller and narrower; lateral pinnae 1 — 2- 

 jugate. 



Malaya; Polynesia, Ceylon, South. India, Comores, Mascarenes; — var. 

 minus: Timor (Forbes, No. 3124^). 



* (58) A. paracloxuBU, BL, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 216; A. zamioides, 

 Hk., Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CXCIII. 



Rhizome short-creeping or ascending, the scales short, broad, deltoid, ad- 

 pressed. Stipes firm, erect, 15 — 25 c.M. long or longer, greyish to brownish, 

 slightly scaly. Fronds 30—100 c.M. long, 15 — 25 c.M. broad, with a rather 

 large, oblong-rhomboidal, simple or 3-fid terminal pinna and 8 — 12 lateral 

 ones on each side, the lowest the largest, subrhomboidal, 2'/2 — 5 c.M. broad, 

 mostly entire, crenate or toothed towards the apex, the upper base suddenly- 

 narrowed, broadly cuneate, the lower more narrowly cuneale. Texlure coria- 

 ceous ; rachis firm, + scaly ; veins indistinct beneath, rather very oblique, 



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