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coloured scales like the base of the stipes. Stipes cfiespitose, + 20 c.M. 

 long, slender, the base nigrescent-stramineous, the upper part naked, greenish 

 like .the main rachis. Fronds 20 — 25 c.M. long, 10 — 13 c.M. broad, acumi- 

 nate, 3-pinnate. Pinnae lanceolate-ovate, short-stalked, often acute. Pinnulae 

 oblong, obtuse, the rachis narrowly winged. Tertiary segments oblong, ad- 

 nate, obtuse or truncate, serrate or dentate, the teeth finely aristate, retro- 

 flexed. Texture membranaceous; surfaces naked, the upper blackish-green, 

 the lower paler. Sori costal, short, broad, straight or curved; indusium 

 whitish. 



War. sphagiiicolum : Stipes filiform, 6 — 12 c.M. long; fronds 3 — 10 

 C.M. long, 2-pinnate. 



Luzon. 



* (10) A. solenopteris {selenopieris), Moore, Bedd., Handb. Ind. 

 Perns, 166; A. peciinatum, Bedd., Ferns S. I., tab. CLV; A. nigripes, Bedd., 

 1. c, tab. CLVII; Asplenium Selenopteris, Melt., Farng., VI, Aspl., 196; 

 Allantodia Solenopleris, Kze, Linn., XXIV, 266; — var. remotum. 



Rhizome oblique or erect, the scales rather large, ovate-acuminate, dense. 

 Stipes stramineoUs, slightly scaly, often 25 — 30 c.M. long. Fronds ovate-acu- 

 minate or lanceolate, never deltoid, 25 — 50 c.M. long. Pinnae distant, erecto- 

 patent, 15 — 20 c.M. long, stalked, lanceolate-acuminate. Pinnulae to + 4 

 c.M. long, short-stalked, close, blunlish, the edge cut down nearly or quite 

 to the costa, the base more or less obliquely subtruncate. Segments oblong, 

 the lower incised and toothed, the others toothed or serrate. Texture 

 herbaceous, rather flaccid; surfaces naked. Sori oblong, more or less curved, 

 the lower ones not rarely hamate or horseshoe-shaped. 



Var. remotum: Pinnulae distant, the lower ones to ± 2 c.M. 

 apart> Texture somewhat firmer. 



South. India, Ceylon; — var. remotum: Java (Zippelius). 



(11) A. drepanopterum, A. Bf., C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; A. drepanop- 

 teron, Moore, Christ, Philipp. Journ., II, 161 ; A. oxyphylLum, Moore, Bedd., 

 Ferns Br.I., I, tab. LXVII; Asplenium oxyphyllum, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil, 228; 

 Polypodium drepanopteron, Kze, Linn., XXIII, 278, 518. 



Stipes firm, erect, 15 — 30 c.M. long, stramineous, clothed at the base 

 with large, lanceolate-acuminate, reddish-brown scales. Fronds 30 — 60 c.M. 

 long, 15 — 30 c.M. broad, lanceolate, with several distant pinnae on each side, 

 which are 10 — 20 c.M. long, 2Y2— -3 c.M. broad. Pinnulae laniceolate, some- 



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