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8 — 12 on each side, subremole, erecto-patent, the higher ones linear-oblong 

 simple, obtuse, entire, the lowest the largest, + 1 — I'/j c.M. long, 3 — 6 m.M. 

 broad, the base cuneate, the edge more or less deeply lobed with 2 — 5 lobes. 

 Lobes not short, oblong to linear-oblong, the largest + 5 m.M. long, ± 1 

 m.M. broad, the apex rounded. Texture moderately thick ; rachis and surfaces 

 naked; veins flabellato-pinnate, not very distinct, 1 to each ultimate lobe. 

 Sori linear, 1 to each lobe; indusium greyish. 

 New Guinea. 



* (78) A. dieli#to9iiMiBi, M&., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 221; Hk., 2"'' 

 Cent, of Ferns, tab. XXXIX. 



Stipes tufted, + 2'/2 c.M. long, erect, greenish, deciduously setoso-palea- 

 ceous. Fronds 4 — 10 c.M. long, oblong, acute, sub-3-pinnate. Pinnai; 6 — 12 

 on each side, 1 — 2 c.M. long, the base on the lower side cut away, the edge 

 cut down to a nari'ow, compressed rachis into + 3-7 linear segments, the 

 lowest of which are mostly 1 — 2X forked. Ultimate segments 3 — ;> m.M. 

 long, ' .^ — '2 m.M. broad, acute. Texture herbaceous; main rachis compres- 

 sed, slightly winged, greenish, naked; 1 vein and sorus to each ultimate segment. 



Borneo. 



(79) A. obttisilobum, Mk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 221; Hk., Icon. 

 PL, X, tab. M; ^. oceamcum, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome short, erect, stoloniferous. Stipes tufted, 5 — 10 c.M. long, nak- 

 ed, greenish or blackish and polished. Fronds 12 — 15 c.M. long, 1 '/a —5 c.M. 

 broad, often proliferous at the apex. Pinnae 6 — 12 on each side, subdeltoid, 

 the lower Y? of the basiscopical side cut away, the largest 1 — 2^2 c.M. long, 

 to 2 c.M. broad, + flabellately cut into 3 — 5 linear, obtuse lobes. Texture 

 thin, herbaceous; rachis green, or black in the lower half; veins 1 to each 

 ultimate segment, covered with scattered, blackish, stellate hairs like the 

 rachis. Sori 1 to each lobe. 



Celebes, New Guinea; Polynesia. 



* (80) A. Belangeri, Mi^e, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 223;Bedd., Ferns 

 Br.l., H, tab. CCLXXXVH; Hk., Fil. Exot., tab. XLI; A. fenerum, Forst., var. 

 Be/angeri, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 215; C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; A. decorum, Kze, Bot. 

 Zeit., i848, 176. 



Rhizome erect or suberect, the scales brown, lanceolate. Stipes tufted, 

 5 — 20 c.M. long, firm, erect, greenish, naked. Fronds 15 — 50 c.M. long, 



