316 36. TAPEIMDIUM. 



seriate, ± 5—10 m.M. apart, 15 — 45 c.M. long, firm, erect, ± scaly at the 

 base. Fronds lanceolate-ovate, 15 — 35 c.M. long, deeply 3-pinnatifid or 3-pin- 

 nate at least at the base. Pinnae erecto-patent, the higher ones pinnate, 

 the segments entire, toothed or subpinnatifid, lowest pinnae largest, with the 

 lower pinnulae deeply pinnatifid or pinnate, those on the lower side often 

 much produced. All the teeth and segments erecto-patent or ascending. 

 Texture coriaceous; rachis and surfaces naked. Sori near the base on the 

 inner side of the ultimate segments or teeth, minute, intramarginal. 

 Moluccas; Simoa. 



(5) T. Denhami, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Davallia Denhami, Hk., Hk. 

 Bk., Syn. Fil., 100; Hk., 2"* Cent, of Ferns, tab. XLVII; Wihelia Denhami, 

 Kuhn, Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam. I*, 217. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales suhulate-fibrillose. Stipes slender, erect, 

 10—20 c.M. long. Fronds 30—60 c.M. long, 15—30 c.M. broad, 4-pinnatifid. 

 Pinnae erecto-patent. Pinnulae of the lower pinnae erecto-patent, lanceolate, 

 5'/i — 7'/i c.M. long, + 27j c.M. broad, cut down to the rachis into oblong, 

 toothed segments, the lower of which ± \ e.M. long, + 74 c.M. broad. /Tex- 

 ture herbaceous; surfaces naked. Sori numerous, intramarginal, very small; 

 indusium obpyriform, the outer edge rounded. 



New Guinea; Polynesia. 



