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distant, + deltoid-oblong, equalling or smaller than those next above, pinnate 

 towards the base. Pinnulae sessile, to 1 '/2 c.M. long, to 4 m.M. broad, blunt, 

 crenate, lobed or pinnatifid, the lobes oblong, blunt, small. Texture herba 

 ceous; rachises and lower part of the costae fibrillose: veins sparingly libril- 

 lose, the librils whitish or brownish. Sori small, consisting of few or not veiy 

 numerous capsules, confluent into a rather narrow, more or less interrupted 

 sulimarginal line, whether or not partially covered by the slightly recurved 

 margin. 



Var. cleiifSa: Fronds narrower, to 5 c.M. broad, often less divided. 

 Sori broader, extending from the margin nearly or quite to the costules at 

 full maturity. 



Trop. Asia, Australia Sf Polynesia. 



* (2) 1%. flis^ans, -K. M,'., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 572; Hk., Icon. PI., X, 

 tab. CMLXXX; CheiUmthes distans, Metl,., Farng., V, Cheil., 23; — var. leon- 

 topodium, Christ, Ann. Btz , XV, 169. 



Stipes tufted, 2 '/a — T% c.M. long, castaneous, wiry, clothed with ferru- 

 gineous, linear-lanceolate-subulate scales. Fronds 15 — 25 c.M. long, 2 — 3 c.M. 

 broad, 2-pinnate. Lower pinnae distant, deltoid, cut down to the rachis 

 below into oblong, obtuse, entire or slightly lobed pinnulae. Texture sub- 

 coriaceous ; upper surface pale-green and slightly villose, rachis and under 

 side more or less densely coated with long, linear-lanceolate, lerrugineous 

 scales. Pinnae often much curled together and the edge recurved, subindu- 

 siform. Sori at length continuous along the margin. 



Var. leontopoclieiui : Scales of the under surface very long, white 

 when young. 



Philippines; Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia; — var. leontopodium : 

 Celebes. 



Species of a dubious systematical place. 



(3)? n. pteriflSfornils, Bit., Becc, Mai., Ill, 49; Gymnogramme 

 pteridiformis, Ces., Fel, Becc, Polin., 5 & 8. 



Bhizome wide-creeping, slender, clothed with brown, fugacious scales. 

 Stipes 5 — 15 c.M. long, slender, brown, provided with scattered, ferrugineous, 

 furfuraceous, fugacious scales. Fronds pinnate, oblong, 20 — 23 c.M. long. 

 Pinnae 3 — 6, distant, glossy, naked, erect or moderately spreading; sterile 



