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of the frond from the costa to the margin, those of each pair separated by an ample, 

 empty interstice; the indusia of each pair touching each other with 

 their edge. 



New Guinea. 



* (2) I»li. iiiterfiiiedia. ». A. ». n., Bull. D6p. Agr. I. N., d908, 

 XXI, 6. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, angular, pale-olive-brown, rather greenish, covered 

 here and there with very minute, punctiform, dark-hrown, scattered scales. 

 Stipes scattered, 5 — 10 c.M. long, apparently articulate, pale-olive-gre(>n, 

 angular, 5 — 10 c.M. long, naked or sparingly covered with dot-like scales like 

 the stout costa. Fronds linear-lanceolate, simple, rarely forked towards the 

 apex, + 25 — 35 c.M. long, 1 ^j^ — 2 c.M. broad, narrowed gradually towards 

 both ends, the apex rather caudate, irregularly crenate, the edge irregularly 

 (but more or less broadly and slightly) undulato-crenate, here and there entire. 

 Texture chartaceous, subpellucid; colour olive-green, but paler between the 2 

 sori of each pair; surfaces naked; veins simple or forked, not close, sub- 

 spreading or erecto-patent. Sori broad, in pairs, reaching from the costa to 

 some distance from the margin, those of each pair separated by an ample, 

 empty, thin-membranaceous, translucent interstice; the indusia of each pair not 

 touching each other with their edge, at length strongly recurved. — This 

 plant seems to be intermediate between Ph. mambare & scolopendropsis, v. 

 A. V. R., and specimens recently received from New Guinea (Leg. Dr. Versteeg) 

 quite agree with this. 



New Guinea (Treub). 



(3) l*h. aMaiii!»aa.i»e, v. A. v. R., I.e.; Scolopendriwn mambare, Bail., 

 in Queensl. Agric. Journ., IIP, 162; C. Chr., Ind. Pil. 



Rhizome wiry, angular, dark-brown, scaly on the younger portion, the 

 scales few and scattered on the older parts. Fronds erect, linear-lanceolate, 

 sometimes forked at the end, often exceeding 30 c.M. in lenght, not exceeding 

 2*/^ c.M. in width, the edges irregulaily sinuate, sometimes the lobes cut 

 down to the costa, all more or less sharply serrate, the apex tapering into 

 an almost filiform cauda and the base into a stipe 5 — 1% c.M. long. Stipe 

 and costa slightly and minutely scaly; veins simple or forked, rather close, 

 parallel. Sori reaching from the costa to near or some distance fi'om the 

 margin. 



New Guinea. 



