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cuiieate, obtuse, coarsely toothed, S— 5 c.M long, + I'/j c.M. broad, the 

 teeth ± 8 m.M. long, + 5 lu.M. broad, the lowest anterior lobe acute, 

 approximate to the rachis. Texture herbaceous; colour black-green; veins 

 llabellalo-furcale. Sori 2 — 3 to a segment, lanceolate, + 4 m.M. broad; indu- 

 sium narrow, greyish, persistent. 

 Luzon. 



* (69) A. |>inaei8i«rSBiita, Sw., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 204; A. 

 furcatvm, Thb., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, "218; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CXLIV; — var. 

 alpestre, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 118; — var. angustissimum, Christ. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, densely clothed with polished, lanceolate, brown 

 scales. Stipes 8 — 25 c.M. apart, 10 — 20 c.M. long, firm, erect, clothed with 

 deciduous, woolly hairs. Fronds 15 — 45 c.M. long, 7 — 15 c.M. broad, linear- 

 lanceolate, with 12-20 pinnae on each side. Pinnae lanceolate-deltoid, short- 

 stalked, 4 — 8 c.M. long, 2— 2'/2 c.M. broad, acute, cut down throughout nearly 

 or quite to the costa into sessile segments Segments linear- or oblong-cuneale, 

 the outer edge rounded and sharply serrate; lower segments often deeply 

 incised. Texture coriaceous; rachis firm, more or less fibrillose like the stipe; 

 veins deep-channelled, ± flabellate. 



\av. stlpestre: Stipes and fronds ± 12 c.M. long. Ultimate segments 

 ± ovate, deeply incised, the outer edge slightly crenate-dentate. Scales of the 

 rhizome very acuminate. 



Var. angMStissiatniiu: Fronds linear-lanceolate; pinnae erect, the 

 lobes with the apices long-acuminate. 



Tropical and subtropical. 



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* (70) A. ciineatiaiiB, Xam., Rac , Flor. Btz., I, 219; — var. 

 subaffine, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 117; — var. oceanicum, Christ, 1. c; — 

 var. tripinnatum, Christ, Philipp. Journ., 11, 165. 



Rhizome suberect, clothed with brown, lanceolate scales. Stipes tufted, 

 12—50 c.M. long, scaly at the base. Fronds 15—100 c.M. long, ± 10—25 

 c.M. broad or broader, deltoid-lanceolate, with numerous spreading pinnae on 

 each side. Lower pinnae 272 — 4 c.M. or more broad, lanceolate-deltoid, cut 

 down to the rachis into distinct, oblong-cuneate; more or less rounded pinnuhu; 

 with the outer edge inciso-dentate and the lower part entire or lobed or cut 

 down nearly or quite to the costa. Texture thinly coriaceous; rachis firm, 

 greyish to brownish, nearly naked; veins fine, visible above. Sori subflabellate, 

 linear. 



