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WiW. S9e11)afii»e: Ultimate segments obovate, nearly flabellate, 2 X 

 as large. 



Waav oceasilcuEii: Texture firmly coriaceous; rachis often dark- 

 brown OP black. 



Was*. tB'ipinuatiiBii: Fronds 5-pinnatifid; segments short, ovate- 

 cuneate. 



Pantropical; — var. subaffine: Celebes; — var. oceanicum: Malaya; — 

 var. tripinnatum: Mindanao. 



* (71) A. bulblferiim, Forst., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 218; A.bulla- 

 lum, Wall., Bedd., Ferns Br.L, I, tab. LXV; Hk., Icon. PL, V, tab. 

 CDXXIII. 



Stipes tufted, 15—30 c.M. long, firm, erect, greyish, scaly at the base. 

 Fronds 30 — 60 c.M. long, 20—30 c.M. broad, oblong-deltoid, with many pinnae 

 on each side, erect or pendulous. Pinnae horizontal (erecto-patent after Bed- 

 dome's drawing), the largest 10 — 20 c.M. long, '5% — 5 c.M. broad, the apex 

 acuminate, toothed or subpinnatifld, the rest cut down to a crompressed, winged 

 rachis into many lanceolate-deltoid, unequal-sided pinnulae, which are again 

 cut down inlo oblong or linear-oblong segments. Segments ^j.^ — 1 '/2 c.M. long, 

 2*/^ — 5 m.M. broad, slightly toothed. Texture herbaceous, slightly lleshy; sur- 

 faces naked, the upper side not rarely copiously proliferous; veins fine, pinnate 

 in the tertiary segments, (the apices thickened and pellucid in the controlled 

 specimens). Sori oblong, at length often filling the whole breadth of the 

 segments. 



Pennng; Br. India, Australia, New Zealand. 



* (72) A. ssitMltiiiB, Sm?., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 219; Bedd., Ferns S.I., 

 tab. GXLVIII, CXLIX; A. la serpilii folium, Bedd, 1. c, tab. CCXXV. 



Rhizome suberect, densely clothed with lanceolate, black, glossy scales. 

 Stipes 15 — 30 c.M. long, firm, erect, greyish to brownish or black, naked. 

 Fronds commonly 60 — 90 c.M. long, 15 — 30 c.M. broad, with numerous lan- 

 ceolate to delloid, acuminate pinnae on each side. Pinnae ± erecto-patent, 

 the lowest 15 — 25 c.M. long, 5 — 8 c.M. broad, cut down to the rachis into 

 numerous stalked, subdeltoid or subrhomboidal pinnulae, which are again cut 

 down into flabellate to cuneate segments, which are inciso-serrate round the 

 outer edge or pinnatifid again. Texture subcoriaceous; rachis firm, naked; 

 veins channelled, conspicuous. Sori short, radiant. 



Malaya; North. India. 



