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veins subimmersed. Sori immersed, medial between the costulae and the 

 margin, 



Java. 



(80) P. khaisyaiiuiti, irfe., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 325; Hk., Icon. 

 PI., X, tab. CMXLIX; Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CLXXIII. 



Stipes tufted, very short, fringed wilh soft hairs. Fronds 30 c.M. or more 

 long, ± 4 c.M. broad, flaccid, cut down nearly to the costa into linear-oblong, 

 entire or slightly undulate, blunt lobes 5—8 m.M. broad. Texture thick, co- 

 riaceous; rachis and both surfaces hairy; veins simple. Sori sunk, in rows 

 of 4 — 6 on each side of the costulae, elliptico-rotundate. 



Malacca; Khasya, Assam. 



« (81) P. celebieum, iff., Flor. Jav., II, 179, tab. LXXXIV, B. 



Rhizome short, woody, reddish-brown, scaly, the scales densely imbricate, 

 membranaceous, scariose, hairy, pale-reddish-brown. Stipes 7—13 c.M. long, 

 or shorter, approximate (tufted, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 350), reddish-brown, clothed 

 with brownish, spreading hairs like the rachis. Fronds commonly nutant, 

 20—40 c.M. long, 5 — 8 c.M. broad, lanceolate, narrowed towards both ends. 

 Pinnae close, nearly horizontal, 3^^ — ^ ™-M. broad, numerous, entire, bluntish, 

 subconfluent at the base, the lower ones reduced. Texture coriaceous; costae 

 indistinct, slightly hairy beneath like the margin ; veins simple. Sori immers- 

 ed, distant, 8 — 12 on each side, nearer the edge than the midrib, ± oblong, 

 the cavities ciliate at the margin, the ciliae covering the sori when young 



Malaya. 



(82) P. decrescent, Christ, Ann. Btz., XIX, 35; Philipp. Journ., 

 I, Suppl., 159, tab. XVII. 



Rhizome oblique, short-creeping, clothed with brown, ovate, acute scales. 

 Stipes short, brown like the rachis. Fronds approximate, nearly tufted, 20 

 c.M. long (incl. the stipe). Pinnae 15—20 on each side, often unequal, 2 c.M. 

 long, 2 m.M. broad, spreading, blunt, not close, connected at the base by a 

 narrow wing ; lower pinnae suddenly reduced so as to form an undulate wing 

 to the rachis. Texture papyraceo-coriaceous; surfaces naked, under side ± 

 glaucous; veins hidden. Sori + 9 on a side, round, submarginal. 



Celebes, Mindoro, Luzon. 



* (83) P. Cesatianuiii, SU., Journ. of Bot., XVII, 42; P. papil- 

 losum, Ces. (not BL), Fel. di Bor., 25. 



