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Texlure coriaceous; surfaces naked, upper blackish-green, lower subglaucous. 

 Sori nude (no spurious indusium ? ). 

 Mindanao. 



* (32) A. toiuentoSR, JIfe. — Insert as a synonym: Gnoophora (o- 

 meiilosa, Bi., (oldest name), and as a variety : — var. novo-guineensis. 



Var. novo-guineenisis : Spines of the rachis longer: laciniae 

 broader, the secondary ones densely scaly beneath. — New Guinea. 



* (34) A. lurida, BLIi. — Insert as a synonym : Gnoophora lurida, Bl.. 

 (oldest name). 



(34a) A. melanortaacliiis, Copei., Philipp. Journ., II, 146. 



Stipes ± 60 c.M. long, black, the lower part beautifully brown-dotted, 

 the base clothed with long, lanceolate, rigid, castaneous, pale-margined scales, 

 the rest asperulous, clothed like the main rachis with narrow, crinite, ful- 

 vous scales. Fronds to + 1*/^ M. long, broadest below the middle, 3-pinnate. 

 Pinnae + 12 on each side, the largest + 50 c.M. long, + 13 c.M. broad, 

 nearly horizontal, stalked, acuminate, the rachis scaly above, black and gla- 

 bresceiit beneath. Pinnulae distinct, + 30 on each side, short-stalked, ± 7 

 c.M. long, ± 1 c.M. broad, the apex acuminate, serrate, the lower part pin- 

 nate, the rachis clothed beneath with 2 different kinds of scales, densely 

 short-hairy above. Tertiary divisions obovate, obtuse, adnate, minutely crena- 

 to-serrate. Texture thinly coriaceous; upper surface nearly black, naked, 

 lower black-olivaceous, clothed on the costae with ciliate, buUate scales; veins 

 simple, the lower barren ones sometimes forked. Sori costal, filling up the 

 whole under side of the contracted fertile segments. 



Mindoro. 



4. I>IOK:SO]VIj\., VH^fiUer. 



* (1) D. mumei, Moore. — Also in the Philippines. 



(2) I>. Copelandi, Chtnst, Philipp. Journ., II, 183. 



Stipes rufo-stramineous, rather glossy, hairy when young, the base den- 

 sely clothed with fine, reddish-brown, moderately long hairs. Fronds large. 

 Pinnae deltoid, acuminate, petiolate, ± 4S c.M. long, ± 24 c.M. broad, produ- 



