58. ASPLBNIUM. §' 4. DAREA. ' 47S 



— 8 c.M. broad, varying from linear-lanceolate to deltoid-ovate, blunt to 

 audate, with many to numerous pinnae on each side. Pinnae horizontal, 7 — 

 m.M. broad, the apex rounded, the edge regularly cut down throughout 

 D a narrowly winged rachis into many linear, erecto-patent segments, the 

 ase truncate on the upper side, cuneate below. Segments 1 — 1 '/j m.M. 

 road, simple, the lowest anterior usually forked. Texture coriaceous; veins 

 to each segment, naked or provided with some few fimbriate, minute scales, 

 lori solitary on the segments. — The young plants have the pinnae less 

 eeply lobed, ± bluntly toothed. 

 Malaya; Tonkin. 



• (81) A. scandens, J. «m., Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., 224; Hk., 2"'' Cent, 

 if Ferns tab. XXXVII; A. myriophyllum, Muell. (not Spr.), Pap, PI, IV. 82. 



Stipes scattered, varying from very short to 20 c.M. long. Fronds 50 — 60 

 ;M. long, 15 — 30 c M. broad, with numerous horizontal pinnae on each side. 

 Mnnae + 3 — 4 c.M. broad, cut down to a winged rachis into numerous 

 ubdistant, ovate-rhomboidal pinnulae, which are laxly pinnatipartite 

 hroughout, with the lowest segments forked or pinnatifid again. Ultimate 

 legmen ts narrowly linear. Texture thin, herbaceous; rachis firm, erect; veins 

 [ to each ultimate segment. Sori solitary on the segments. 



Philippines, Borneo, Ceram, Amhoina, New Guinea; Fiji. 



$ 5. LOXOSCAPHE. 



t:. Stipes pale-coloured; fronds small, 2-pinnafe. (82a) A. Bakeri. 



^. if. Stipes dark-coloured; fronds large, 3 — 4-pinnale. (826) A. novo-guiueense. 



(82ffi ' A.. Dakeri, C. (Jhr,, Ind. Fil.; Davailia lanceolata, Bk., Kew 

 }ull., i899, 119. 



Rhizome slender, short-creeping. Stipes short, slender, stramineous, 

 trownish below. Fronds lanceolate, 2-pinnate, 5 — 10 c.M. long, l'/2 — 2 c.M. 

 iroad, naked; rachis uaked, stramineous. Pinnae numerous, contiguous 

 labellalo-pianate. Segments few, narrowly linear, 1-nerved, 2 '/a — 4 m.M. 

 ong, the iipex dilated. Sori solitary, terminal; indusium persistent, naked. 



New Guinea. 



