9. TRICHOMANES. § 2. EUTRICHOMANES. f**- TRICHOMANOl'PSIS. 103 



blackish-green, sparingly pubescent below. Fronds |to 40 c.M. long, to 20 

 c.M. broad, broadly deltoid-ovate, 4— S-pinnate. Pinnae distant, the lower 

 ones shorter, stalked, narrowing from a broad base to an acuminate apex. 

 Pinnulae. regularly ovate-deltoid. Tertiary segments cut down into regular 

 segments, the lowest of which are divided again. Ultimate segments + 3 

 m.M. long, + Vs °i-M. broad, with only a central vein. Sori at the base 

 of the superior tertiary segments; indusium hispid, stalked, hypocrateriform, 

 often incurved, the margin conspicuously dilated; receptacle moderately exserted. 

 Texture thin; segments covered with scattered, adpressed, minute bristles. — 

 The plant has often abnormal fronds, which are ± 6 c.M. long, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, short-stalked, irregulary 2-pinnate with capillary divisions. 

 New Guinea, -/...f' -'-..'-, /'jj..'"— 



(47) T. giganteum, Bot-y, Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil, 87; Hk., Icon. PL, 

 VIII, tab. DCGII. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, tomentose. Stipes 10 — 15 c.M. long, strong, erect, 

 hairy. Fronds 30 — 45 c.M. long, IB — 25 c.M. broad, ovate, 4-pinnatifid; 

 main rachis hardly winged above. Lower pinnae ovate-lanceolate, 15 — 20 

 c.M. long, cut down to the rachis. Pinnulae V\^ c.M. long, cut down very 

 nearly to the rachis, the divisions again deeply pinnatifld. Ult. segments 

 linear, flat, '^% m.M. long, "/j — 1 m.M. broad. Colour dark-green. Surfaces 

 naked, ! shining ; texture ie«Mcoriaceous; a central costa only in each segment. , 

 Sori 2 — 20 to a pinnula; tube more or less exserted, the mouth + dilated, 

 not 2-lipped. 



Malaya; Fiji, Comores, Mascarenes. 



(48) T. jias.atile, Moore, Nich., Diet. d'Hort., V, 324. 



Stipes erect, hairy, tufted. Fronds triangular-ovate. Higher pinnae 

 decurrent, lower ones bipinnatifid. Pinnulae ovate, more or less decurved, 

 + undulate. Ultimate segments broad, short, obtuse. Indusium tubuliform, 

 slightly 2-lipped. — Plants small. 



Borneo. 



* (49) T. cupressoides, I»es»., (oldest name), C. Chr., Ind. Fil; 

 T. obscurum, Bl., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 30; V. D. B., Hymen. Jav., tab. XVII; 

 T. riqidum, Sw., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 86, p. p.; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. VIII. 



Rhizome shorFcreeping'^flSaly throughout or at the extremity only. Stipes 

 approximate, 5—20 c.M. long, slightly covered with brownish hairs. Fronds 



