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(16) S. angustuui, Copel., Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl., 252, tab. I, B. 



Rhizome short-creeping, clothed with minute, narrow, castaneous scales. 

 Stipes approximate, 3 — 8 c.M. long, black-pm*pureous, sometimes flexuose, spa- 

 ringly clothed towards the base with scattered hairs of the same colour, the rest 

 naked, glossy, triangular like the rachis. Fronds 10—18 c.M. long, + 1 c.M. 

 broad, simply pinnate. Pinnae sessile, spreading, oblong, slightly convex, ± 

 8 m.M. long, ± 4 m.M. broad, at length deciduous, the apex rounded, the 

 margin entire, the base truncate or subcordate, often overlapping the rachis, 

 lower pinnae somewhat distant, deflexed. Texture coriaceous; veins hidden, 

 flabellate. Sori broad, continuous. — Near S. ovatum, Copel. 



Philippines. 



* (2) S. ovatum, Copel., Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl., T61; S. Gueri- 

 nianum. Gaud., var., G. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Lindsaya ovata, J. Sm., Hk. BL, Syn. 

 Fil., 105; Hk., Spec. Ftl, I, tab. LXIV, A. 



Rhizome short-creeping. Stipes 5 — 10 c.M. long, wiry, flexuose, black. 

 Fronds 10 — 15 c.M. long, + 2 c.M. broad, simply pinnate. Pinnae + 5 

 m.M. broad, not imbricate, sessile, the lower ones with their own breadth 

 between them, horizontally oblong, the apex broadly rounded, the lower base 

 rounded or cuneate, the upper one truncate, slightly auricled. Texture + 

 coriaceous. Sori in a continuous marginal line. 



Philippines, Borneo, Celebes. 



(3a) S. induratum, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Lindsaya indurata, Bk., 

 Journ. of Bot., XXVI, 324. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales minute, spreading, linear, brownish-black. 

 Stipes wiry, naked, castaneous, 20 —25 c.M. long. Fronds lanceolate, pinnate, 

 ± 30 c.M. long, 2 — 2 '/a c.M. broad. Pinnae oblong, obtuse, sessile, sub- 

 equilateral, ± 8 — 9 m.M. broad, the edges entire, rather reflexed. Texture 

 firm; surfaces naked; costae distinct; veins immersed, obscure. Sori conti- 

 nuous all round the sides and the apex of the pinnae; indusium narrow. 



Borneo. 



(36) S. fuligineuin, Copel., Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl.. 2B2, tab. I, A. 

 1 3 Rhizome short, creeping, clothed with minute, fdiform, castaneous scales. 



]l^ Stipes caespitose, 7 — 10 c.M. long, scaly at the base, the rest glossy, naked, 



^ castaneous like the rachis. Fronds 20 — 30 c.M. long,! 1 '/j — 3 c.M. broad, 



<) narrowed gradually towards the apex. Pinnae subsessile, articulate to the 



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