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lower margin more or less curved upwards, the upper cut into 2 — 5 blunt, 

 short lobes. Texture herbaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked. Sori small , 

 placed in the lobes at a short distance from the edge; veins sometimes join- 

 ing at the apex and then their sori becoming confluent. 

 Malaya; Fiji, Samoa. 



(56) li. Ha vicei, . Cope!., Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl., 149. 



Rhizome scandent, slender, fuscous, clothed with caducous, minute scales 

 of the same colour. Stipes distant, 2 — 4 c.M. long, fuscous, naked. Fronds 

 12 — 15 c.M. long, ± 2'/j c.M. broad, acuminate, simply pinnate. Leaflets 

 short-stalked, + 174 — I'/a ^•^- ^^^S> ± * ^•^^- broad at the truncate base, 

 falcate, narrowed gradually towards the acuminate apex, the upper edge 

 finely lobed. Texture membranaceous; rachis fine, stramineous; veins free. 

 Sori minute, terminal, more broad than deep. 



Mindanao. 



(6a) It. aiioensis, Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 64; Perk., Fragm. 

 Philipp., tab. IV, A. 



Rhizome scandent, ferrugineous, nearly naked. Stipes straight or flexuose, 

 firm, 12 — 18 c.M. long, reddish-brown near the base, the rest green, nearly 

 naked-as is the rachis. Fronds ± 20 c.M. long,i3 — 6 cm. broad, simply pinnate. • 

 Leaflets short-stalked, the largest ,to 4 cm. long, to 7 mm. broad, the lower 

 edge curved, the upper one more or less deeply incised with the higher lobes 

 mostly linear. Texture herbaceous; surfaces naked; veins free or confluent 

 at the apex. Sori small, terminal on the lobes; indusium suborbicular. 



Mindanao. 



{6b) It. cyathicola, Copel., Philipp. Journ., L Suppl., 149, tab. V. 



Rhizome scandent, purpureous, glossy, sparingly fulvo-paleaceous. Stipes 

 distant, 4—6 c.M. long, slender, naked, glossy, purpureous below, greenish 

 above like the rachis. Fronds simply pinnate, 15 — 20 c.M. long, l'/^ — 2 

 c.M. broad, narrowed towards both ends. Leaflets sometimes cuneate, the 

 largest ± 9 m.M. long, ± 5 m.M. broad, obtuse, the acroscopical edge cut 

 hardly Va'^^Y down into 2 — 3 lobes. Texture membranaceous; surfaces 

 naked; veins free except when united by the sori. Sori small, distant from 

 the margin, more broad than deep, simple or confluent. 



Luzon. 



