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and under surfacOairy especially on the veins; under surface densely covered 

 with globose, yellovp glands; main veins pinnate in the lobes; veins 3 — 10 

 on a side, only the lovpest anastomosing. Sori fevF or to 6 — 9 on a side, the 

 lowest close tho the midribs; indusium hairy or naked; capsules naked. 

 Malaya. 



* (115) D. crinipes, O. Utse, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium 

 crinipes, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 294; Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCLXIII. 



Rhizome + erect. Stipes 30 — 45 c.M. long, stout, erect, densely clothed 

 with lanceolate-linear, brown scales. Fronds + 60 — 90 c.M. long, + 20 — 35 c.M. 

 broad. Pinnae horizontal, ± 10 — 17'/j c.M. long, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, cut down 

 7j — '/4-way to the costa into oblong, scarcely acute lobes, the upper basal 

 one often somewhat enlarged; lower pinnae dwarfed into auricles. Texture 

 herbaceous ; rachis scaly like the stipe, the scales ± deciduous ; costae, costu- 

 lae and veins sparingly hairy above; veins 6 — 8 on each side of the main 

 veins, minutely hairy beneath, the lowest pair anastomosing. Sori medial on 

 the veins, but a little nearer the apex than the base; indusium persistent. 



Celebes, Malacca; North India. 



Species of anuncertain systematical place {*). 



(116) O. penangiana, C. Chr., Ind. Fil; Nephrodium costatum, 



., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 275; Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCXX; Polypodium 

 lineatum, Colehr., Hk. Bk., Syn., Fil., 316; P. penangianum, Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 V, 13., Goniopteris penangiana, Bedd., I.e., II, tab. CCXXXII. 



Rhizome indefinite. Stipes ± 45 c.M. long or longer, rather stout, 

 scaleless, glossy and as well as the rachis strongly tinged with red, or rarely 

 stramineous. Fronds broad-oblong or -lanceolate, 30—90 c.M. long, pinnate. 

 Pinnae numerous, rather distant, spreading, sessile, 12—20 c.M. long, 1— S^/j 

 c.M. broad, the lower ones whether or not subpetiolate, lanceolate or elongate- 

 oblong, finely acuminate, the edge coarsely and sharply submucronate-serrate, 

 the base obliquely cuneate. Texture coriaceo-submembranaceous ; surfaces 

 naked, or slightly hairy on the veins; costae prominent beneath, generally 

 reddish; veins + 6— 8-jugate, the 3—6 lower anastomosing. Sori in 2 



(') Rtuzome unknown or indefinite. 



