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Mesochlaena talamauensis, v.A.v.R. 



Stipites + 25 — 75 cm. longi, cum rachide stramineo-fusci, basi fusci 

 et squamis fuscis, lineari-subulatis, integerrimis, deciduis vestiti, sursum 

 auriculis parvis (pinnis reductis), hastato-deltoideis muniti. Frondes lanceol- 

 atae. + 65— 125 cm. longae et 25 — 40 cm. latae, relative abrupte 

 acuminatae; rachis supra pilis pallidis appresso-hirsuto-villosa. Pinnae 

 subcoriaceae, utrinque glandulis minutis, rotundis, flavidis vel pallidis 

 punctulatae, sat remotae, ascendentes, breviter petiolulatae, lineari-lan- 

 ceolatae, inframediales maximae, + 15 — 25 cm. longae et 2'/2 — 3 cm. 

 latae, apice acute acuminatae et integerrimae, margine costam versus plus 

 minus usque ad V2 incisae, basi abrupte breviter acuminatae, ad petiolos 

 subdecurrentes; pinnae normales inferiores + deflexae; costae, costulae 

 venaeque utrinque sparse glandulosae, supra pilis pallidis, acutis ornatae; 

 pili costarum densi, venarum sparsi. Lobi numerosi, conferti vel approx- 

 imati, oblongi, 4 — 5 mm. lati, obtusi, integerrimi, ciliati; venae distinctae, 

 usque ad 7 — 9 utrinque, 2 — 3 inferiores anastomosantes. Sori mediales; 

 indusium pallide fuscum, margine decidue glandulosum. 



Near M. larutensis v.A.v.R., 



Sumatra (Mt. Talamaii, H. A. B. Biinnemeijer No. 873). 



Microlepia Hookeriana (Wall.), Pr., Epim., 95; v.A.v.R., Mai. 

 Ferns & All., Suppl. 1, 229; Davallia Hookeriana, Wall., List, 2684. 



Under surface naked or minutely appresso-puberulous between the veins. 



Also in Sumatra (Bengkoelen, Lebong Simpang, G.J.Brooks No. 33\iS). 

 — This specimen differs from our Javanese and British Indian specimens only 

 in having the pinnae deciduous, apparently articulated to the rachis. 



Nephrolepis floccigera (Bl.), Moore, Ind., 92; v. A. v. R. , Mal. Ferns, 

 159; Aspidium floccigerum, BL, Enum. PI. Jav., II, 147. 



Pinnae subcoriaceous, chaffy beneath, glabrescent, to 15 cm. long, 

 truncate-cuneate and often subauriculate at the upper base, rotundate or 

 rotundate-cuneate at the lower base; barren pinnae l'/2 — 2 cm. broad, 

 shallowly and broadly crenulate or duplicate-crenulate ; fertile pinnulae 

 narrower than the barren ones, dentate-crenate to a depth of I'/a mm.; 

 sori on the teeth. 



Also in Ceram {Kaniki, L. Rutten's Explor. Commiss., Coll. Kornassi 

 No. 555). — A large form, to 250 cm. high. 



Nephrolepis serrata, v.A.v.R. 



Eunephrolepis. — N. floccigerae Moore affinis sed pinnis minus firmis, 

 glabris (glabrescentibus ?), maxime ad costam subtus parce squamulosis, 

 proportione longioribus angustioribusque, basi acutis, fertilibus conspicue 

 serrato-dentatis. 



