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2. Stipe mid rachis lonq-hairy. 



(19) Ph. subcounexa. 

 E.s. Stipe and rachis naked or short-pubescent. 



(20) Ph. distans. 

 3 J. Fronds broader, + 90 c.M. broad. (21) Ph. Kingii. 



(1) I'll. appendi€5ula.ta, ». a. v. R.; Polypodium appendiculatum, 

 Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 306 ; ( ? Drijopteris cana, 0. Ktze., C. Chr., Ind. Pil). 



Stipes tufted, ± 30 c.M. long, deciduously villose. Fronds 45 — 60 c.M. 

 long, 20—25 c.M. broad, ovate-lanceolate. Pinnae 7—13 c.M. long, 2 — 272 

 c.M. broad, narrowed from the base to an acuminate point, cut down nearly 

 to the costa into linear-oblong, falcate lobes ; lower pinnae with a small gland 

 a the base, slightly reduced. Texture herbaceous; rachis and under surface 

 villose; veins 8 — 12 on a side. Sori close to the costulae. 



Penang ; East. Himalaya. 



(2a) Pis. qiiaclriaHS'ita, v>. A. v. JR.; Dryopteris quadriaurita, Christ, 

 Philipp. Journ., II, 209. 



Rhizome probably oblique, the apex crowned with rigid, castaneous, opa- 

 que, subulate scales nearly 1 c.M. long. Stipes few or solitary, + 33 c.M. 

 long, naked, grey-stramineous, terete. Fronds ± 55 c.M. long, + 24 c.M. 

 broad, deltoid-oblong, hardly narrowed towards the base. Pinnae ± 15 on 

 each side below the pinna lifid apex, sessile, lower opposite, lowest deflexed 

 or decurved, acuminate, + 12 c.M. long, ± 270 c.M. broad, cut down to the 

 costa into subdistanl, horizontal segments. Secondary segments linear, acute, en- 

 tire, with acute sinuses between them, ± 1 '/2 c.M. long, + 3 m.M. broad, lower 

 free, falcate, lowest produced, petiolulate, incised, adpressed to (overlapping?) 

 the rachis, stipule-like. Texture coriaceous, rigid; colour hright-'green ; costae 

 very short-hairy; veins simple, ± 8 — 10 on each side, oblique. Sori minute, 

 medial, impressed. — Fronds with the appearance of Pteris quadriaurita, Retz. 



Mindanao. 



* (26) Ph. erubeiseeias, J, Sm., Christ, Farkr. d. Erde., 272; 

 Polypodium erubescens, Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 506; Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, 

 tab. CGXIII; Dryopteris erubescens, C. Chr., Ind. Fi\.; Nephrodimn erubescens, Diels, 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., P, 171; — var. amboinensis, Hk. Bk., 1. c. 



Stipes 30 — 73 c.M, long, tufted, angular, + reddish like the rachis Fronds 



