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oblong, + 15 on each side, acuminate, distant, the lower short-stalked, hardly 

 narroAved at the base, the lowest + 7 c.M appart, hardly produced on the 

 lower side, with the lowest anterior pinnulae shorter. Pinnulae + 15 on 

 each side, approximate, + 4 c.M. long, ± 1 '/2 c.M. broad, regularly piiina- 

 tifld nearly to the costa. Tertiary segments in + 10 pairs, rhomhoidal-oblong, 

 obtuse, subdecurrent at the base, + 6 m.M. long, + 5 m.M. broad, regular- 

 ly toothed with + 5 subacute teeth on each side. Texture flaccido-herbaceous ; 

 surfaces pubescent with numerous whitish hairs ; colour bright-green ; costulae 

 pinnate, veins forked ( ? *). Sori numerous, + 5 on each side of the 

 costulae. 

 Luzon. 



* (10) I*h. I'MfesceiiS, mett., Christ, Parnkr. d. Erde, 276 ; Poly- 

 podium rufescens, BL, Flk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 309; Bl., Flor. Jav., II, tab. XCI; 

 Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CCXXXVI; Dryopteris rufescens, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; 

 Nephrodium rufescens, Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., V, 11^; Aspidium 

 rufescens, BL, (oldest name). 



Rhizome creeping, commonly slender, scaly. Stipes 20 — 45 c.M. long, 

 erect, naked, stramineous (conf. Blume's drawing). Fronds 30 — 45 c.M. long, 

 15 — 50 c.M. broad, subdeltoid. Lowest pinnae largest, erecto-patent, 7 — 10 

 c.M. broad, deltoid. Lowest pinnulae lanceolate, stalked, bluntly lobed, deeply 

 pinnatifid or pinnate at the base, those on the lower side the longest, the 

 central ones sessile, decurrent, the highest confluent. Ultimate divisions twice 

 as long as broad or longer, crenate, toothed or lobed. Texture herbaceous to 

 subcoriaceous ; rachis and under surface slightly pubescent or tomentose ; 

 veins pinnate in the lobes. Sori copious, medial on the veins. 



Java; Ceylon, Queensland, New Caledonia. 



(11) Pli. lox.4»iSC£i.plioifleSi, ». A. K. IS,.} Polypodium loxoscaphoides, 



Bk., Journ. of Bot., XXVIII, 107 ; Dryopteris loxoscaphoides, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Stipes short, slender, naked, castaneous. Fronds deltoid-oblong, decom- 

 pound, ± 30 c.M. long. Lower pinnae the largest, lanceolate-oblong, subequi- 

 lateral, 10 — 15 c.3I. long. Ultimate segments + 2 m.M. long, cuneate with 

 2 veins, or oblong with a single vein. Texture moderately firm; surfaces 

 naked. Sori solitary and dorsal on the veins, medial in the ultimate 

 segments. 



New Guinea. 



(*) Christ wiites: nervis pinnatis, furcaiis. 



