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Hictyoptcri* la brusca. r. L i\ ff.: Polypodium 

 Labrusca, Hk., Spec. Pil., V, 78. tab. COLXXXV,B; Aspidium 

 Labrusca Ghrist, in Ann. Btz., XV, 137. 



In the specimens gathered in Borneo by Dr. Nieuwenhuis 

 and determined by Dr. Christ as Sagenia Labrusca (Ann. Btz., 

 XX, 108) I could not fiml any tracé of an mdusium. 



Var. tcrnata: Raciborski's plants gathered in Nusa 

 Kembangan (Java) have the fronds not 3-lobate (Flor. Btz., I, 

 109), but decidedly 3-foliate, with the central segment hastato- 

 3-fkl with a broad, sinuate, subcaudate central lobe and 2 narrow, 

 + entire, acute lateral lobes; the lateral segments are tree or 

 joined with the central one, upcurved, + entire, unequal-sided, 

 acuminate, the base cuneate on the anterior, cordate on the lower 

 side. — Java. 



Dictyogileris (Arcypteris) peiitapli.vlla. c.A. wR. 



Stipites + 30 cm. longi, cum rachide brunnei vel atropur- 

 purei, rainute fibrillosi et decidue paleacei, paleis paucis, brunneis 

 vel purpureis. Frondes 30 — 45 cm. longas, 15 — 25 cm. latae, 

 subcoriaceaj, pellucidae, glabras, costis costulisque prominentibus, 

 ven is distinctis, areolis numerosis, venas liberas includentibus. 

 Pinna terminalis 15 — 20 cm. longa, simplex, late ovata, acumi- 

 nata, rotundato- vel acuto-undulata, basi late cuneata vel rotun- 

 data, plerumque 1 — 2-lobata, lobis erecto-patentibus, lanceolatis, 

 obtuse rotundatis vel acuminatis ; pinnse laterales erecto-patentes, 

 2 utrinque, remotae, lato-lanceolatse, parte basiscopica producta, 

 apice acuminatae, margine integrse vel undulatao, basi late cuneatse 

 ad rotundatse, pinnae infima? basi furcatse, lobo basiscopico obtuso 

 vel acuminato. Sori numerosi, irregulariter sparsi, plerumque 

 confluentes, indusiis nullis. 



New Guinea (Treub). — Af ter Christensen's natural system 

 this plant should be called Aspidium pentaphyllum, and after 

 Copeland's conception Tectaria pentaphylla, v. A. v. R. 



