200* 22. DRTOPTERIS. § 1. LASTRAEA. 



(52) D. sarawakensis, «. A. «. JR.; JJi rhodohpw, C. Chr,, m>\, 

 <]. Chpi, Iiid i Fill ' ) Nephrodiiim samwakense, Bk., Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., 

 XXII, 223. = r/. 9 . c^-Oe.^'-^aJSl^ cD. /-^..Zj-^j 



Caudex erect. Stipes tufted, ± 15 c.M. long, clothed throughout with 

 small, squarrose, rigid, dark-brown scales like the rachis. Fronds ovate- 

 lanceolate, nearly 30 c.M. long, 8 — 10 c.M. broad at the base, o-pinnate. 

 Lowest pinnae largest, deltoid, opposite, short-stalked, the lower side produced, 

 the other ones alternate, sessile, oblong-lanceolate. Pinnulae mullijugate, oblong- 

 lanceolate, the lower ones pinnate. Tertiary divisions 6 — 7 m.M. long, 

 3 — o\ m.M. broad, adnate, contiguous, entire, with the central ribs pin- 

 nate. Texture thin, obscurely pubescent on the rachises arid main veins; 

 veins erecto-patent, + 4 on - a side, the lower ones forked. Sori small, 

 fugacious. 



Borneo. 



* (53) D. pnlvinulifera, O. Stste, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Aspidium 

 pulvinulifenim, Rac. (not Bedd.), Flor. Btz., I, 111 ; Laslraea puhinulifera, Bedd., 

 Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCCXXXIII; Nephrodiiim pulvinuUferum, Bk., Hk. Bk., 

 Syn. FU., 500. = B. lA.^ O. /^^^-.^ 



Caudex erect, densely clothed with linear-lanceolate, entire, yellowish or 

 reddish-brown scales. Stipes 15 — 75 c.M. long, stramineous to brownish, the 

 base scaly like the rhizome, the rest scaly like the rachises. Fronds 30—90 

 § c.M. long, 20 — 40 c.M. broad, 3 — 4-pinnatifid, deltoid. Lowest pinnae largest, 



© subdeltoid, stalked, ± produced on the lower side. Pinnulae lanceolate, lower 



g< ones stalked, higher ones decurrent at the base. Ultimate lobes ligulate-oblong, 



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the largest ones to 8 m.M. long, o% — 5 m.M. broad. Texture herbaceous or 

 ^ moderately firm ; rachises scaly, the scales becoming shorter towards the apices 



of the fronds and segments, broad at the base and suddenly narrowed into 

 a long, bristle-like, firm, spreading, dark-brown or blackish point; surfaces 

 naked; veins pinnate in the lobes. Sori medial or subcostal, 3 — 5 on each 

 side of the costulae, 4wmiBa]=an -sho rt yoialote . — Resembling D. sparsa, 0. 

 Ktze, but the rachises scaly. 

 Java; Sikkim. 



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(54) D. aciculata, C. C*f., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodiiim acictikfum, Bk., 

 Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., XXII, 226. 



Stipes 30—45 c.M. long, densely clothed throughout like the rachises 

 with squarrose or spreading, subulate, brown scales. Fronds oblong-deltoid, 



