14. DENNSTAEDTIA. 



looker as a complete frond. A specimen gathered by Mr. Whitford 



Tonds 5-pinmlifid, the jomwu/ae + 25 (IS— 35?) c.M. long, etc., the ulti 

 ses margin ate or rather narrowly winged. 

 Philippines, Batjan. ^'Z T ^ ,.x„. 



(11) O. Kingi, Beda., Journ. of Bot., XXXI, 227; Dicksonia A 

 ., Handb. Ind. Ferns, Suppl., 6. 



Stipes stout, erect, ± 4o c.M. long. Fronds 90—120 c.M. long, del 

 olate, 4-pinnatifid. Pinnae 20—25 c.M. long, the lower ones deltoid 

 te, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate upwards. Lower pinnulae + 6—7 

 the others ± Vj^ c.M., cut down nearly or quite to the rachis 

 ig, broadly toothed lobes. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked. Sori 

 1 on thickened veins and exserted beyond the margin. 

 Malacca. 



* (12) n. flaceida, BemU. (not Moore), Diels, in Engl. & Pi 

 Pfl.Fam., l\ 218; Dicksonia flaceida, Sw., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 121. 

 Rhizome creeping. Stipes 1 — 2 M. long. Fronds 3 — 4-pinnate, o 

 id, to 272 M- long> to + 1^/2 M. broad. Pinnae linear, opposite, s 

 ed or nearly sessile, lanceolateTacuminate, scarcely narrowed towards 

 Pinnulae sessile, to 8 c.M. long, to 2 c.M. broad, the base + trun 

 ary divisions close, unequal-sided, to 1 c.M. long, to 4 m.M. broad, p 

 Va — '/4-way down to the costa, the apex toothed, the base decur 

 obes crenale or toothed. - Texture herbaceous ; both surfaces naked, 

 he tops of the sinuses; indusium subglobose when young, cup-shape 

 maturity. 

 Java, Sumatra; Polynesia. 



(13) D. glabrata., C. Chr., Ind. Pil. ; Dicksonia glabrata, Ces., 



Polin., 2 & 6. 

 Rhizome tortuose, the scales linear, fibrillose, brown, crisped. Stipi 

 ;.M. long, rigid, polished, ebeneous like the rachis, the base densely 

 ), the upper part rarely so, the prickles conical, recurved. Frond 

 c.M. long, 3-pinnate./ Pinnae spreading, the lower ones ± GO c.M. ] 

 ed as in D. flaceida, Bernh. The lower lobes with the margin ( 

 dded. Texture coriaceous; upper surface dark-green, the under one p 

 New Guinea. 



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