﻿55. ASPLENIUM. § 4, DAREA. 475 



4 — 8 c.M. broad, varying from linear-lanceolate to deltoid-ovate, blunt to 

 caudate, witb many to numerous pinnae on each side. Pinnae horizontal, 7 — 

 10 m.M. broad, the apex rounded, the edge regularly cut down throughout 

 to a narrowly winged rachis into many linear, erecto-patent segments, the 

 base truncate on the upper side, cuneate below. Segments 1 — I'/z ^^-M- 

 broad, simple, the lowest anterior usually forked. Texture coriaceous; veins 

 1 to each segment, naked or provided with some few fimbriate, minute scales. 

 Sori solitary on the segments. — The young plants have the pinnae less 

 deeply lobed, + bluntly toothed. 

 Malaya; Tonkin. 



• (81) A. s^aiidens, J. S«*., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 224; Hk., 2°'' Cent, 

 of Ferns, tab. XXXVIl; A. mynophyllum, Muell. (not Spr.), Pap, PI., IV, 82. 



Stipes scattered, varying from very short to 20 c.M. long. Fronds 5!) — 60 

 c M. long, 15 — 50 c M. broad, with numerous horizontal pinnae on each side. 

 Pinnae + 3 — 4 c.M. broad, cut down to a winged rachis into numerous 

 subdistani, ovate-rhomboidal pinuulae, which are cut down to the rachis 

 throughout, with the lowest segments forked or pinnatifid again. Ultimate 

 segments narrowly linear. Texture thin, herbaceous; rachis firm, erect; veins 

 1 to each ultimate segment. Sori solitary on the segujents. 



Philippines, Borneo, Ceram, Amboina, New Guinea; Fiji. 



$ 5. LOXOSCAPHE. 



>jc. Slipes pale-coloured; fronds small, 2-pinnale. (82a) A. Bakeri. 



::^. t . Slipes dark-coloured; fronds large, 3 — 4-pinnale. (826) A. novo-guineense. 



(82« A. Bakeri, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Davallia lanceolata, Bk., Kew 

 Bull., i899, 119. 



Rhizome slender, short-creeping. Stipes short, slender, stramineous, 

 brownish below. Fronds lanceolate, 2-pinnate, 5 — 10 c.M. long, 1 '/^ — 2 c.M. 

 broad, naked; rachis naked, stramineous. Pinnae numerous, contiguous 

 flabellalo-pianate. Segments few, narrowly linear, 1-nerved, 2^2 — -4 m.M. 

 long, the apex dilated. Sori solitary, terminal; indusium persistent, naked. 



New Guinea. 



