APPENDIX. 15. OLEANDBA. 807 



lanceolate, to 25 c.M. long, lo 5 c.M. broad, narrowed towards both ends, 

 the base cuneate, the edge entire, the point long cuspidate. Texture papyra- 

 ceous ; surfaces naked, ± glossy ; costa prominent on both sides, sparingly 

 scaly; veins + 1— 2 X forked. Fertile fronds linear, to 50 c.M. long, 

 I'/i— 2 m.M. broad (!). Sori rather distant, large, transversal (not oblique), 

 often protruded beyond the margin of the frond; indusiuiu reniform. 

 New Guinea. 



* (5) O. muisifolia, J*f. — Insert as a synonym: Aspidium musi- 

 folium, BL, (oldest name). 



Vr. IVEPHIiOLEPIS, Schott. 



% 1. LINDSAYOPSIS. 



• (3a) M. davalliae, ». Jt. v. n.. Bull. D6p. Agr. I. N., 1908, XXI, 2. 



Rhizome short, stoloniferous, densely clothed with bright-brown, subulate 

 scales. Stipes ± 15 c.M. long, approximate, grey-brown and deciduously 

 furfuraceous like the rachis, the tomenlum consisting of fuscous, crisped, 

 Qbril-like scales. Fronds ± 50 c.M. long, narrowed towards the apex. Pin- 

 nae numerous, rather distant, horizontally spieading, falcate, short-stalked, 

 lower sterile, lowest more or less reduced but not auricle-like, oblong, higher 

 fertile, central largest, ± 4 c.M. long, 5 — 6 m.M. broad at the rotundato- 

 truncate base, narrowed towards the apex, the margin entire or shallowly 

 crenate in the lower part, more deeply crenate, dentate or dentato-lobate to- 

 wards the apex, the crenations or teeth oblique, bluntish, the fertile ones 

 truncate. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; veins 2— 5-furcate. Sori 

 roundish, solitary and terminal on the crenations or teeth, rarely solitary on 

 the veins, mostly uniting the apices of the fork branches of the veins, slightly 

 immersed and prominent on the upper surface; indusium brown, semior- 

 bicular, attached at the rounded base and sides, free at the truncate apex, 

 opening outwardly. 



New Guinea. 



$ 2. EUNEPHROLEPIS; 



« (5) M. floccigera, JUoore. — Insert as a synonym : Aspidium 

 floccigerum, BL, oldest name- 



