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2. HuMATA ANGUSTATA. {Wall.) Rhizome wide - creeping, 
scaly; fronds subsessile or shortly stalked, 3-8 inches long, 
inch broad, linear, slightly and irregularly crenate at the margin, 
rarely once forked ; both surfaces naked ; veins parallel, sniiple or 
forked thickened ; sori in a row along the edges, indusium small, 
transversely oval. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 88. Bedd. F. B. 1. t. 237. 
The Malay Peninsula, Malacca, &c. 
(Also in the Malay Islands.) 
3. HUMATA PARALLELA 
fronds, 4-8 inches long, 
\\-2 inches broad, 
stipitate, coriaceous, 
ovate-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, deeply pinnati- 
fid nearly to the rachis ; 
segments close, paral- 
lel, horizontally patent, 
linear or Imear-oblong 
subfalcate entire, the 
lowermost pair some- 
times with a solitary 
obtuse lobe at the base 
beneath, rarely more ; 
involucres semiorbicu- 
lar copious marginal, 
but all pointing towards 
the apex of the seg- 
ments in two close 
parallel lines (not point- 
ing towards the mar- 
gins) ; veins thickened 
/. 99. 
Birma and the Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Polynesian Islands.) 
{Wall) Caudex creeping, paleaceous; 
N022 
HUMATA PARALLELA. 
sunk. Hook. Syn. Fil. 89. 
( Wall. 
Bedd F. B. I. 
