42 5. AtSOPHILA. '4, 



"Vap. seiulosa: Gestae and costulae clothed beneath with mederatelT- 

 long, whitish, subulate bristles especially in the barren portions. 

 trap. Am,. — The varieties in Malaya, chiefly Celebes or Java. 



(28) A. Christii, e. A. v. n.,- A. comosa, Christ (not Wall.), Ann. 

 Btz., XV, 80. See Supplement 1. 



Stipes strong, + 2 c.M. thick, pale-brown, rough with numerous, minute, 

 acute warts, not scaly. Fronds large; main rachis slightly rough and strigulose. 

 Pinnae sessile, + 40 c.M. long, ± 8 c.M. broad, lanceolate. Pinnulae spreading, 

 acuminate, + '/^ c.M. broad, pinnate. Ultimate divisions (leaflets) lanceolate- 

 falcate, obtuse, + 3 m.M. broad, the apex rounded, crenate. Texture herba- 

 ceous; costae clothed above with short, whitish hairs and covered beneath 

 with scattered, brown, bullate - scales ; veias forked. Sori large, yeUowish- 

 brown, 6— 8 on each side, not reaching to the apex of the ultimate segments. 



Celd)es. 



* (29) A. <runca<a, Bt-acle., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil, 39; Hemifelia 

 truncata, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 81, tab. XIII, fig. 4. — var. nivea, Christ in 

 Sebum. & Laut , Flor. deut. Sch.geh., Suppl., 36. 



Main & second, rachises dark-purple or brownish, glossy, muricate, deci- 

 duously furfuraceo-tomentose as well as the costae and costulae beneath. Fronds 

 a-pinnate. Pinnae 23—45 c.M. long, 10 — 12 c.M. broad, oblong, acuminate. 

 Pinnulae to 7'/j c.M. long, to I'/j c.M. broad, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 numerous (25 — 30 on each side), pinnate, the short apex pinnatifid. Ultimate 

 segments to 12 m.M. long, to 3 m.M. broad, herbaceous, firm, the lower ones 

 + petiolale, the base subauriculate or hastate, the margin roundly crenate, 

 recurved. Costules thick and prominent, bullato-squamulose ; veins simple or 

 forked; colour bright-green above, paler beneath. Sori small, dark-orange, lax, 

 near the costulae ; indusium consisting of a narrow, flat, thin, orbicular scale. 



War. ni«ea: Fronds 2 — 2 '/a M. long, ± I'/i M. broad; under surface 

 covered with adpressed, white tomentum. 



Celebes, Baljan, New Guinea; Fiji, Samoa; — var. nivea: New Guinea. 



(30) ? A. celehica. Met*., Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., I, 53; ? Cyathea 

 cekbiea, Bl., Enum., 245. 



Fronds + tripinnatisect ; main rachis ferrugineo-hirsute in the upper 

 portion, subfurfuraceous, scaly and slightly aculeate or rough in the lower 

 portion. Pinnae ± 30 c.M. long or longer. Pinnulae approximate, + 10 



