252 25. ASPiDiOM. § 2. sageku. 



Var. Teysiuannianum : Piiinae wavy, broadly crenate or sinuate. 



\av. siibti'ifoliadiiu: Barren fronds with a broad, orate, ter- 

 minal pinna to + 16 c.M. long, to + 8 c.M. broad and below this com- 

 monly 1 pair of similar lateral pinnae. Fertile pinnae small, subentire, in 

 2 — 3 pairs. 



Malaya: Polynesia; — var. Teysmannianum : Sumatra, Celebes; — var. 

 subtrifoliatum : Celebes. 



* (40) — A. pachyphylliim, Mkc, Christ, Farukr. d. Erdc, 2| 



Diels, in Engl. ><c Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 97, A— C; A. siifolim 



var. pachyphyllum, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 138; Sigenia pachynb^la, Moore, 



Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 195; Aephrodiitm pachyphyllum, Bk., HIT. Bk., Syn. Fil., 



y 



299; Teclarta crenala, Cav., Copel., Philipp. Journ., II, 414, p. p. 



Caudex erect, to 10 c.M. high, the scalesj>^e-lanceolate, dark-brown, 

 .ij Stipes 50 — 50 c.M. long, naked, brownish, spaly at the base. Fronds 60 — 100 



§ c.M. long, + half as broad, with aj^oblong-lanceolate, entire or sinuate 



^ terminal pinna 10 — 50 c.M. long<^ — 5 c.M. broad, often deeply pinnatifid 



^ at the base ; below this %^ erecto-patent, entire or repand lateral pinnae 



(D on each side, the low^f^'iobed, forked or pinnatifid on the lower side. Fer- 



^ tile pinnae often odrower, or even + contracted. Texture herbaceous to 



chartaceous ; m^i veins straight or slightly curved, distinct nearly to the 



edge; are«tlae fine, with copious free veinlets. Sori large, in regular rows, 



distjiHf; on free veinlets; indusium entire. 



Malaya; Polynesia. 



(41) A. bi'achiatiim, Zoll. 4- nor., Nat. Geueesk. Arch., I, 399: 

 A. Zollingerianum, Kze, Bot. Zeit., i846, 462; A. immersum, Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 IV, 58; Nephrodium Zollingerianum, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 298. 



Stipes 20—30 c.M. long, naked. Fronds 20—30 c.M. long, 15— 20 c.M. 

 broad, subdeltoid. Terminal pinna deeply pinnatifid; below this 5—4 lateral 

 pinnae on each side, the lowest largest, long-stalked, deltoid, cut down below 

 into distinctly separated, deeply pinnatifid pinnulae with blunt, linear-oblong 

 lobes. Texture subcoriaceous ; veins beneath prominent, anastomosing princi- 

 pally in large costular arches; areolae large, with included free veinlets, 

 depressed so as to form cavities in which on the ends of the free veinlets 

 the large, copious sori are placed. 



Java. 



