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Stipes ± 30 c.M. long, clothed with long, spreading, brown, lanceolate- 

 lubulate scales, scabrous when they fall. Fronds + 30 c.M. long, 20—25 

 !.M. broad, lanceolate-deltoid. Lowest pinnae stalked, + I27, c.M. long, 

 [3—20 m.M. broad, cut down to a narrowly winged rachis into close, linear- 

 iblong, entire lobes. Texture coriaceous; rachis like the stipe; under surface 

 hinly pubescent and glandular; veins 7—8 on a side, the lowest sometimes 

 oining. Sori nearer the midrib than the edge. 



Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, New Guinea. 



* (9) n. Teuscheri, v. a.. v>. k. 



Rhizome scaly; the scales brown, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. 

 Stipes subtufted, + 5—10 c.M. long and like the rachis greyish or brownish, 

 lensely short-hairy. Fronds linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnate, ± 16 — 20 

 !.M. long, + 3 — 4 c.M. broad, with a pinnatifid apex and an elongate, 

 srenate point. Higher pinnae oblong, entire, sessile; following pinnae sub- 

 lessile; central pinnae close, short-stalked, erecto-patent, falcate, ± 1 c.M. 

 )road, the base truncate, auricled on the upper side, the edge pinnatifid ± 

 '/j on the way to the costa, but more deeply and nearly to the costa towards 

 he base, the apex oblong, blunt, entire or crenate; lower pinnae shorter, 

 leflexed. Lobes blunt, subentire. Texture /eeaicoriaceous ; under surface 

 lensely glandular and short-hairy; veins forked, or pinnate in the lobes. Sori 

 nedial on the veins, in 1 row on each side of the costulae; indusium densely 

 rairy. — Fronds with the general aspect of D. pilosiuscula, C. Chr., but the 

 linnae more deeply lobed and the upper surface naked. 



Borneo (Teuscher). 



(10) n. peciinata, ». A. «. K.,- D. orientalis, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; 

 [spidium pectinatum, Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 250; Nephrodium albo-punctatum, 

 )eso., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 264; Hk., Fil. Exot., tab. LXXXIX; N. pectinatum, 

 her., Engl. Jahrb., XXVIII, 341; N. Wcbbimum, Hh , , Spoc . Fil., IV, SB; 

 ^olypodium pectinatum, Forsk., (oldest name). See the Appendix. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, scandent. Stipes naked, greyish-blackish, distant, 

 t 10 c.M. long. Fronds 20—30 c.M. long, 10—15 c.M. broad, ovate, 

 'innae spreading, subdistant, sessile, lanceolate, blunt, 1 — I'/j c.M. broad, 

 ut '/j-way . down or more into oblong, entire, subspreading lobes. Texture 

 rm; surfaces and rachis more or less pubescent; upper surface with white 

 retaceous dots; main veins pinnate, with 3 — 4 veins on each side. Sori 

 mall, near the edge; indusium hairy. N. Webbimum, Hk haa the frondo 



