560 69. 7ITTARU. § 2. TAENIOPStS. 



th e ba s e t o the apea, sli g h tly sulcat e abov e j ¥oine eubimmorBod) obliquO ) eimp 

 free, the apices not or hardly thickened, hardly produced beyond the rec 

 lade in the fertile region. Sori in rather deep grooves between the thicken 

 costal parenchyma and the margin; the margin ± thin, much producedlfeya 

 the costal parenchyma, which is + half as broad as the lamina/i. e. t 

 leaf-tissue beyond the soral groove/in transversal section + as in/V. pusil 

 BL, but rather spreading. 

 Borneo. 



* (15) \. pnsilla, JM., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 6a/Bull. D6p. Agr. 

 N., 1908, XXI, 7, tab. II, lig. 2, a— c; V. falcala, Kd, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fi 

 595; Taenilis pusilla. Melt., Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., IV, m, tab. VII, fig. 1 1—1 

 Pteurogramme pusilla, Christ, Philipp. Journ., II, 175/— var. minor; V. mint 

 Fee, Hk., Spec. Fil., V, 183. 



Rhizome ascending, the scales membranaca<fus, yellow-brown, lanceolal 

 not acuminate. Fronds multiseriate, 2 — 12 yC.M. long, + 3 — 4 m.M. broi 

 § and nearly as thick, simple or occasionally^orked, straight or falcate, lines 



® ligulate, the apex blunt or rounded, the lower part narrowed gradually to tl 



B base. Texture coriaceous, firm; midrilr + distinct beneath, but lost in tl 



-<j 







<D 



not abruptly thickened fertile region, jMightly sulcate above; veins free, obliqu 

 m forked, Iransversed by the receptacl^in the fertile part. Sori confined to tl 



upper V3 — '/a ^^ ^^^ frond, deepl^sunk in submarginal grooves, the thickem 

 costal parenchyma nearly as brpd as the lamina or produced a little beyoi 

 the margin, which is rather Imin, i.e. the leaf-tissue beyond the soral groo' 

 in transversal section rathw narrowly linear with the base + as broad 1 

 the extremity or the latter narrowed. 



\fskr. minor: yFronds shorter, less than 3 m.M. broad. 



Borneo, Java, Mdacca; Ceylon, Queensland. 



• (16) V./nlcata, SuHm, Bedd., Haiidb. Ind. Ferns, 408; Bull. Dd 

 Agr. I. N., i9QS, XXI, 7, tab. II, fig. 5, a — c; Taeniopsis falcata, Bedd., Fen 

 Br.I., n tab/CLXXV; Taenitis simplidvenia, Ces., Fel. Becc. Polin., 5 & 8. 



RhizooK short-creeping, the scales dense, pale-brown, lanceolate. Fron( 

 crowdedyiigulate, obtuse, sessile, narrowed towards the base, 5 — 10 c.M. Ion 

 S — 4 ai.M. broad. Texture coriaceous ; midrib visible in the lower, barren pa 

 of tj>e frond, quite lost in the thickened, fertile region; veins forked or rare; 



2 branches, not reaching the margin. Sori in deep, intramarginal furrow 

 fecapying — ttte — u p per half of th e frondi — Th e margin vory thick, muc 



