APPENDIX. 3. ALSOPHILA. 791 



Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked, upper blackish-green, lower subglaiicous. 

 Sori nude (no spurious indusium ? ). 

 Mindanao. 



• (32) A. tomentosa, Hfc. — Insert as a synonym: Gnoophora lo- 

 menlom, Bl., (oldest name), and as a variety: — var. novo-guineensis. 



Var. novo-guineensis: Spines of the rachis longer; laciniae 

 broader, the secondary ones densely scaly beneath. — New Guinea. 



* (34) A. lurida, MU. — Insert as a synonym : Gnoophora lurida, BL, 

 (oldest name). 



(34a) A. nielanorhachis, Copel., Philipp. Journ., II, 146. 



Stipes + 60 c.M. long, black, the lower part beautifully brown-dotted, 

 the base clothed with long, lanceolate, rigid, castaneous, pale-margined scales, 

 the rest asperulous, clothed like the main rachis with narrow, crinite, ful- 

 vous scales. Fronds to ± I'/j M. long, broadest below the middle, 5-pinnate. 

 Pinnae + 12 on each side, the largest + 50 c.M. long, + 13 c.M. broad, 

 nearly horizontal, stalked, acuminate, the rachis scaly above, black and gla- 

 brescent beneath. Pinnulae distinct, ± 30 on each side, short-stalked, + 7 

 c.M. long, + 1 c.M. broad, the apex acuminate, serrate, the lower part pin- 

 nate, the rachis clothed beneath with 2 different kinds of scales, densely 

 short-hairy above. Tertiary divisions obovate, obtuse, adnate, minutely crena- 

 to-serrate. Texture thinly coriaceous; upper surface nearly black, naked, 

 lower black-olivaceous, clothed on the coslae with ciliate, buUate scales; veins 

 simple, the lower barren ones sometimes forked. Sori costal, filling up the 

 whole under side of the contracted fertile segments. 



Mindoro. 



4. I>ICK:S0IVIA, VMirmer. 



* (1) O. Blumei, Moore. — Also in the Philippines. 



(a) P. Copclandi, Chfi»t, Philipp . Journ ., tl, 183 . 



Stipes rufo-stramineous, rather glo^^j__haiEf-wirfirybung, the base den- 

 sely clothed ^rith fiiir, rnddrTtrfinnTn mndrrnfrly long hairs. Fronds large. 

 i, aouminatO) potiolato, * 45 c . M . long, ^ f l fi cM . broad , prod^^ 



