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linear, often entire, with the base cuneate, the lower ones 10 — 15 c.M. long, 

 ± 772 m.M. broad. Texture firm; surfaces naked like the stramineous 

 rachis; veins not close, erecto-patent, deeply forked, not reaching the margin. 

 Sori small, terminal on the veins ; indusium semicupuliform, naked, persistent. 

 Sumatra. 



(2) HI. marginalist, Bedd. (not Hance), Christ, FiEirnkr. d. Erde, 

 507 ; M. scabra, J. Sm., Bedd., Ferns Br.L, I, tab. CII ; M. marginata, C. Chr., 

 Ind. Pil.; Davallia marginalis, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., 98; D. villosa, Wall., 

 Hk., Spec. Fil., I, tab. XLVIII, A. 



Rhizome creeping, villose. Stipes 30 — 60 c.M. long, erect, strong. Fronds 

 45 — 75 c.M. long, 20^35 c.M. broad, pinnate. Pinnae linear, distant, alter- 

 nate, slightly stalked, straight or subfalcate, + a'/j c.M. broad at the base, 

 narrowed gradually towards the apex, the edge cut + '/j — ^/s-way down into 

 numerous, close, deltoid-oblong, crenato-dentate lobes, the upper base broadly 

 and the lower rather narrowly cuneate. Texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and 

 slipe downy, the latter at length glabrous ; under surface hairy. Sori sub- 

 marginal, 2 — 8 to a lobe, 1 to a serrature; indusium broadly half-cupshaped, 

 densely hairy. 



New Guinea; Japan, China, Ceylon. 



(3) HI. scaberula, Mett., Linn., XXXYI,,148. 



Fronds ± 30 c.M. long, ± 25 c.M. broad, deltoid, acuminate, sub-5- 

 pinnatisect. Pinnae alternate, not close, spreading, short-stalked, acuminate. 

 Piniiulae approximate, spreading, sessile, trapezio-oblong-lanceolate, unequal- 

 sided, the upper base truncate, auricled, the lower cuneate. Segments oblong, 

 obtuse,'- pinnatifld, incised or crenate with a few teeth at the apex. Texture 

 thinly chartaceous; costae and veins beneath covered with subadpressed, 

 reddish-brown, small, sharp bristles; rachis short-hairy; veins prominent 

 beneath. Sori submarginal, small; indusium naked. 



New Guinea. 



(4) HI. manilensiiS, JP»«., Tent. Pterid., 125; Davallia manilensis, 

 Bt ^A.)7Ann. Btz., XV, 93, tab. XIV, fig. 9, a— b; D. Sarasinorum, Christ, Fil. 



Saras., IV, 7. 



Fronds large, to + 2 M. long, deltoid, 2-pinnate to 3-pinnatifid. Pinnae 

 40 — 50 c.M. long, oblong, 15-— 18 c.M. broad at the base, the apex long- 

 caudate. Pinnulae numerous, 25—30 on each side below the pinnatifid apex 



