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miiient, hooked gland, the edge pinnatifid nearly to the cosla; lower pinnae 

 gradually reduced to mere auricles. Lobes broad, oblong, obluse, entire, sub- 

 falcate. Texture firm-membranaceous; surfaces sparingly hairy; costae and 

 veins villose. Sori nearer the costulae than the edge ; capsules furnished with 

 few, long, weak hairs. 



Java; China, North. India. 



(5) Ph. tuberculata, v. a. v. R.; Dryopleris tubercul'la, C. Chr., 

 Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium tuherculalum, Ces., Fel. Becc. Polin., 4 & 7 ; Polypodium 

 tuberculatum, Bk., Ann. of Bot., V, 456. 



Stipes strong, the base provided with conical, rough, obtuse tubercles, the 

 rest naked, deeply canaliculate, ± 45 c.M. long. Fronds 90 — 120 c.M. long, 

 pinnate. Pinnae numerous, 20—25 c.M. long, more than 2^/2 c.M. broad, cut 

 down to the rachis into numerous linear, falcate, subobtuse lobes, naked on 

 both sides except the costa. Under surface glandular; veins simple. Sori small, 

 in I row on each side of the costae. 



New Guinea. 



(6) Phi. OlKyoduiS, v. A. v. R'; Polypodium oxyodon, Bk., Jouru of 

 Bot., XVII, 66; Dryopteris oxyodus, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium oxyodon 

 (oxydon), CopeL, Polypod. Philipp., 23. 



Rhizome short-creeping, the scales small, erect, lanceolate, membranaceous, 

 dark-brown. Stipes approximate, naked, substramineous, 15 — 30 c.M. long, 

 slightly scaly near the base Fronds deltoid-oblong, 15 — 30 c.M. long, 2-pin- 

 natifid. Pinnae 9—18, lanceolate, 7 — 10 c.M. long, 2*/, — 4 c.M. broad, cut 

 down to a broad wing into lanceolate-oblong, sharply toothed lobes 4 — 5 m.M. 

 broad; higher pinnae sessile, lower stalked. Texture moderately firm; both 

 surfaces naked; main veins pinnate in the lobes; veins 10 — 12-jugate, many 

 of them 2 — 4 X forked. Son small, round, medial on the anterior fork 

 branches of the veins. 



Sulu Islands. 



(!) PIi. liubobsciira, Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., VI, 856; Dryop- 

 teris subobscura, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Stipes numerous, tufted, ± 8 c.M. long, tender, and like the rachis 

 blackish-brown and covered with spreading, narrow, acuminate, hispid brist- 

 les. Fronds oblong-deltoid, long-acuminate, 10 — 15 c.M. long, ± 4 c.M. broad. 

 Lower pinnae deltoid-ovate, short-stalked, deeply pinnatifid towards the blunt- 



