44 5. ALSOPHILA. 



17, — 2'/, c.M. broad. Segments close, free or slightly joined at the base, 

 ligulate, falcate, blunt, + ^% m.M. broad, obscurely crenulate. Texture 

 subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; midribs below naked or furfuraceous ; veins 

 crowded, ± 10 — 12-jugate, forked. Sori minute, subcostular; receptacle pilose. 



¥^ar. interuiedia : Ultimate segments broader; veins and sori more 

 distant. 



Java 4" Celebes to Polynesia; — var. intermedia: New Guinea; New 

 Caledonia. 



* (34) A. Inrifla, nu., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 43. 



Stipes smooth ; rachis slightly scabrous and scaly below, densely tomentose 

 and scaly above. Fronds broadly lanceolate. Pinnae to + 30 c.M. long and 

 to 10 c.M. or more broad. Pinnulae more than 5 c.M. long, more than 1 

 c.M. broad, cut down to the rachis into linear-oblong, subfalcate, nearly entire 

 leaflets. Texture subcoriaceous ; upper surface dark-green, naked, under surface 

 densely furnished with linear scales on the rachis and costae. 



Java, Celebes. 



(5S) Jk. minclanensis, ChrUt, Warb., 3Ions., I, 90. 



Rachis stramineous, unarmed, covered with sf woolly, brown tomentum 

 and long, reddish-brown, fine, fibrillose scales. Pinnae + 40 c.M. long, ovate, 

 subsessile. Pinnulae numerous, 20 — 30, ligulate-lanceolate, ± 8 c.M. long, 

 short-acuminate, the lower ones pinnatifid quite to the costa. Segments 

 of the sterile pinnae + 2 c.M. long, close, + 6 m.M. broad, deeply incised, 

 with the lobes ovate, bluntish, crenate; those of the fertile pinnae/ smaller, 

 narrower, rather distant, ligulate, entire or slightly crenulate. Texture very 

 coriaceous; costae fibrillose like the rachis; veins numerous, forked. Sori 

 minute, close to the central veins of the segments, not reaching the apex. 



Philippines. 



Species of an uncertain systematical place. 



(36) ? A. xantholepis, Christ, Diels, in Engl. & PranQ, Nat. Pfl. 

 Fam., I*, 138. 



Fronds somewhat larger than in A. tristis, Bl. (which is Cystopteris tristis. 

 Melt.), becoming black when dried. 



Batjan. 



