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h.h. Barren pinnae equal-sided at the base. 



c. Lateral pinnae few, i — S on each side. (3) S. Smithii. 



c.c. Lateral pinnae more numerous, + 6 or more on each side. 



d. Rhizome naked or nearly so; barren pinnae with a small 

 gland at or near the base on the upper edge. 



(4) S. palustris. 

 d.d. Rhizome rather copiously scaly ; barren pinnae without a 

 gland at the base. 

 e. Barren pinnae with the edges not cartilagineous. 



(5) S. sorbifolia. 

 e.c. Barren pinnae with the edges cartilagineous. 



(6) S. subtrifoliata. 



(1) S. laurifolia, P*-. (not Diels), Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 88; 

 Acrostichum lauri folium, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 412. 



Stipes firm, erect, naked. Fronds 60—90 c.M. long, 30 — 45 c.M. broad. 

 Barren pinnae 15 — 25 c.M. long, 5 '/a — 4*/j c.M. broad, sessile, not articulate 

 to the rachis, narrowed gradually from the cordate base to the apex, the 

 edge sharply but finely toothed, without a gland. Texture coriaceous; rachis 

 and both surfaces naked. Fertile pinnae as long as the barren ones, '/^ — 1^/^ 

 c.M. broad. 



Philippines and Celebes to Polynesia. 



(2) S. arthropteroideis, Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., V Serie, VI, 998. 



Rhizome wide-excurreut, rugulose, not aculeate, brown, clothed with scat- 

 tered, adpressed, black, furfuraceous scales. Stipes scattered, fulvo-stramine- 

 ous, to 5 c.M. long. Fronds ± 25 c.M. long, + 13 c.M. broad, broadly 

 ovate, hardly narrowed at the base, the rachis slender, minutely winged. 

 Pinnae lanceolate, + 8 — 10 on each side, spreading, stalked, articulate on 

 distinct, black, calliform protuberances of the rachis, + 9 c.M. long, + 2 

 c.M. broad in the fully developed plants, the upper base auriculate-truncate, 

 the lower cuneate, the edge crenato-serrate. Texture thinly herbaceous; 

 colour bright-green; veins forked, more than 1 m.M. apart, clothed beneath 

 with scattered, black, furfuraceous scales, as is the rachis. Fertile fronds 

 with the pinnae linear, very distant, acuminate, rounded or nearly cordate 

 at the base. 



Luzon. 



