APPENDIX. 789 



3. A.1L.SOF»HILj^, jr. Brown. 



- (2) A. glalii'a., Hk. — Insert as a synonym: Gymnosphaera glabra, 

 BL, (oldest name). 



* (5) A.. jSquantulata., JHk. — Insert as a synonym : Gymnosphaera 

 squamidata, BL, (oldest name). 



(11a) \. caloconta, CfcW#f, Philipp. Journ., II, 182; — v^r. con 

 gesta, Christ, 1. c. ; A. lepifera, J. Sm., var. congesta, Christ, in Bull. Hefh. 

 Boiss, VI, 157. 



Stipes unarmed, but covered with minute tubercles, clothed at the base 

 witli a dense mass of long, scariose, pale, lucent, silvei'y scales, which are 

 broadly ovate at the base, subulate, caudate, aristate at the apex, the point 

 reddish. Fronds large, ,")-pinnatisect, the rachis rufo-ochraceous, opaque, pro- 

 vided with crowded, verrucose tubercles and scattered, furfuraceous scales. 

 Pinnae + 75 c.M. long, + 25 c.M. broad, petiolate, caudato-acuminate. 

 Pinnulae close, ± 20 — 50 on each side below the pinnatifid apex, near- 

 ly sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, + 15 c.M. long, + 2'/j c.M. broad, cut 

 dowii to the costa, the highest broadly adnate, the lowest not reduced. Ter- 

 tiary segments ligulate, falcate, bluntish or subacute, + 55 on each side, + 

 II m.M. long, ± m.M. broad, subentire, close, pectinate, the lowest free, 

 distant, tolerably narrowed. Texture flaccid, herbaceous; upper surface dark- 

 coloured, naked, lower paler, scaly on the costae and costulae with a row of 

 white, lucent, ovate, ciliate, adpressed scales; veins + 12 on each side, fine, 

 2 or more limes forked. Sori 8 — 10 on each side, medial, not confluent. 



Var. congesta: Diifers from the type in having the ultimate seg- 

 raenl shorter, narrower, more falcate and more strongly serrate. The pinnu- 

 lae do not exceed 8 c.M. in length. — In general appearance different from 

 the type, hut with the same essential characters. 



Luzon. 



— « > (10) A. latobro s a i W m lt . < Inaort ac a variotyi 

 Christ, Philipp. Journ., II, 185/ 



A plant found in Mindoro and wMgJMfr-TfoEably this species has the 

 base of the stipes denselvclflUi«*r'arwith long, brown hairs; b, with lanceo- 

 late, membrauewJSTliIm^ white scales to 5 c.M. long, with a narrow, black 

 hmiffT'or^^i^^ paloao int e rmediato in form i It Boome incradible that tbeyg 



