476 S5. ASPLBNIUM. § 5. LOXOSCAPHE. 



(836) A. novo-guineense, nst.. Fed., V, 40. 



Rhizome short-creeping, densely clothed with rigid, black, linear-lanceolate, 

 finely acuminate scales. Stipes dense, straight, to 60 c.M. long, terete, naked, 

 black or purple-black, the sides provided with a narrow, pale-coloured stripe. 

 Fronds linear-lanceolate, nearly 1 M. long, + 20 c.M. broad, compound. Pinnae 

 suberecto-patent, short-stalked, subremote, linear-lanceolate, to 12 c M. long, to 

 4 c.M. broad, acuminate, truncate at the base. Pinnulae lanceolate, to 2 '/j c.M. 

 long, to 1 '/j C.M. broad, the base truncate on the upper, cuneate on the lower 

 side, the apex short-acuminate or obtuse, the anterior side produced. Tertiary 

 divisions simple or 2-fid, the laciniae narrowly linear, nearly 5 m.M. long, 

 */a m.M. broad, slightly dilated at the apex. Texture thinly herbaceous; sur- 

 faces pale-green, nearly naked (clothed here and there with some few black- 

 purple, spinuloso-subulate hairs on the costulae and the margin); veins 1 in 

 each ultimate segment, forked near the apex. Sori subterminal on the longest 

 veinlets; indusium semiovate, opening towards the shortest veinlet. 



New Guinea. 



§6. ASPLENIDICTYUM. 



• (83) A. Finlayisonianuin, Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fii., 243; 

 Hk., Icon. PL, X, tab. CMXXXVII; Hemidiclyum Finlaysonianum, Moore, Bedd., 

 Perns Br.I., I, tab. LXXII. 



Stipes 15 — 25 c.M. long, naked or clothed with blackish, subulate-lanceo- 

 late scales at the base. Fronds 20 — 75 c.M. long, acuminate, simply pinnate, 

 with an entire or subrepand terminal pinna, which is often pinnatifid at the 

 base and 1 — 6 lateral pinnae on each side, the highest of which are smaller 

 than the terminal one. Lowest pinnae to 10 c.M. apart, 10 — 20 c.M. long, 

 3 — 8 c.M. broad, erecto-patent, acuminate, the base often unequal, narrowed 

 gradually into a distinct petiole, the edge entire or subrepand, sometimes 

 slightly incised near the base. Texture + coriaceous; rachis often slightly 

 winged towards the apex; veins erecto-patent, the highest very oblique. Sori 

 scattered irregularly, */, — 5 c.M. long. 



Celebes, Malacca; Br. India. 



Characters of Asplenium except that the sori and indusia are arranged in 



