180 ^2. DRFOPTEBlS. § 1. LASTIL\E. 



S. Tertiary segments toothed. Sort subcostular, (55) D. Boryana. 

 S«$. Tertiary segments at least pinnatifid. Sort X tnoditth e^ '*vi 

 '^' ''O'v't.-vfAV,, (56) D. purpurascens. 



±.±. Rachis hairy or fibrillose, at least on the upper side. 



S. Surfaces densely hairy like the rachis. (57) D. crenata. 



S.2. Under surface slightly hairy or scaly on the veins. 

 3. Rachis slightly fibrillose, the fibrils deciduous. 



(58) D. rhodolepis. 

 3.3. Rachis pubesceiU on the upper side. (59) D. setigera. 

 £.1.M. Rachis scaly or bristly^ /wJ tk^^^-i^^r^^^^ ^ n"C^^^-*~> 

 •{•. Scales of the stipe ovate; .under surface + glandular. 



(60) D. zeylanica. 

 ^.•t. Scales of the stipe bristle-like; under surface naked or hairy. 



(61) D. multiseta. 

 •{••■J-.f. Scales of the stipe subulate; under surface scaly, at least: 



on the costae, sr ^' ''-- ^-ir-^j^ (62) D. subarborea. 



(1) O. IWarburgii, C. C*f ., Ind. Fil, ; Aspidium Warbunjii, Kuhn 

 ^ Christ, Warb., Mons., I, 81; — var. reticulata, Christ, 1. c. 



Stipes tufted, very short, nearly wanting. Fronds + 10 c.M. long, + 

 2 c.M. broad; rachis hairy. Pinnae ligulate, bluntish, the upper base truncate, 

 the lower one cuneate, the margin entire or slightly crenate. Veins simple 

 or forked. Sori minute, medial, in 1 row on each side of the midribs, 8 — 10 

 to a row; indusium small, fugacious. 



VaP. reticulata: Pinnae ovate; veins ± anastomosing. 



New Guinea. 



C. Cbr., 



* (2) n. hirtipes, O. MCtme^lni. Fil.; Aspidium hirtipes, BL, Rac, 

 Flor. Btz., I, 168; A. atralum, -Wall, Mett,, Farng., IV, Phegop. & Aspid., 

 No. 126; Lastraea hirtipes, Moore, Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. XCVI; Nephrodium 

 hirtipes, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 261. 



Rhizome short-creeping; the scales dense, long, lanceolate-subulate, dark- 

 coloured. Stipes subtufted, 15 — 35 c.M. long, scaly; the scales black-brown, 

 the lower ones large, lanceolate-subulate, the higher ones linear-subulate or 

 filiform. Fronds 15—60 c.M. long, 8 — 35 c.M. broad, pinnate, the apex 

 pinnatifid. Pinnae I'/j — 2'/, c.M. broad, short-stalked, the highest sessile, 

 the lowest longest, linear-lanceolate, the base truncate, the edge lobed from 



