﻿476 55. ASPLENIUM. § 5. LOXOSCAPHE. 



(82ft) A. no-vo-guineeiiisie, Rst., Fed., V, 40. 



Rhizome short-creeping, densely clothed with rigid, black, linear-lanceolate, 

 finely acuminate scales. Stipes dense, straight, to 60 c.M. long, terete, naked, 

 black or purple-black, the sides provided with a narrow, pale-coloured stripe. 

 Fronds linear-lanceolate, nearly 1 M. long, + 20 c.M. broad, compound. Pinnae 

 suberecto-patent, short-stalked, subremote, linear-lanceolate, to 12 c M. long, to 

 4 c.M. broad, acuminate, truncate at the base. Pinnulae lanceolate, to 2 '/2 c.M. 

 long, to 1^/2 c.M. broad, the base truncate on the upper, cuneale on thelower 

 side, the apex short-acuminate or obtuse, the anterior side produced. Tertiary 

 divisions simple or 2-fid, the laciniae narrowly linear, nearly 3 m.M. long, 

 '/j m.M. broad, slightly dilated at the apex. Texture thinly herbaceous; sur- 

 faces pale-green, nearly naked (clothed here and there with some few black- 

 purple, spinuloso-subulate hairs on the costulae and the margin); veins 1 in 

 each ultimate segment, forked near the apex. Sori subterminal on the longest 

 veinlets; indusium semiovale, opening towards the shortest veinlet. 



New Guinea. 



§ 6. ASPLENIDICTYUWI. 



* (83) A. Fiolaysonianuiii, Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 245; 

 Hk., Icon. PI., X, tab. CMXXXVil; Hemidiclyum Finlaysoninnum., Moore, Bedd., 

 Ferns Br.I., I, tab. LXXII. 



Stipes 15 — 25 c.M. long, naked or clothed with blackish, subulate-lanceo- 

 late scales at the base. Fronds 20—75 c.M. long, acuminate, simply pinnate, 

 with an entire or subrepand terminal pinna, which is often pinnatilid at the 

 base and I — 6 lateral pinnae on each side, the highest of which are smaller 

 than the terminal one Lowest pinnae to 10 c.M. apart, 10—20 c.M. long, 

 3 — 8 c.M. broad, erecto-patent, acuminate, the base often unequal, narrowed 

 gradually into a distinct petiole, the edge entire or subrepand, sometimes 

 slightly incised near the base. Texture ± coriaceous; rachis often slightly 

 winged towards the apex; veins erecto-patent, the highest very oblique. Sori 

 scattered irregularly, V2 — ^ c.M. long. 



Celebes, Malacca; Br. India. 



50. F»HYLLITIS, Ijudwig. 



Characters of Aspleniura except that the sori and indusia are arranged in 



