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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1914 
fuscis, superne pilis falcatis vestitis inferne minute et sparse 
pilosis infra laminam auricula una minuta praeditis; fronde 
pinnata, segmento apicale maximo, usque ad 20 cm alto, 4 cm 
lato, acuminato, basi truncato vel cordato, plerumque crenato; 
pinnis saepius utrinque uno, alternantibus, 4-8 cm longis, 2-3 
cm latis, obtusis vel acutis, basi truncatis, subcoriaceis, lamina 
glabra; venulis in segmento majore ca. 8-paribus, inferne minute 
pilosis, conspicuis; soris usque ad 7-paribus, versus costam 
proximis et interdum confluentibus, versus marginem distanti- 
bus, orbicularibus, indusio pilis multis centralibus substituto, 
sporangiis nudis. 
Loane, King 406. 
The single auricle, below the developed pinnae, is found on the four 
fronds sent to me, but will probably prove not to be a constant character; 
but the species is distinguishable from D. lineata in several other ways. 
D. Bakeri is very distinct. D. mirabilis Copel., of Borneo, is much broader, 
with opposite pinnae and surface minutely pustulose, as in D. lineata; D. 
uniauriculata has it smooth. 
TECTARIA GYMNOCARPA sp. nov. 
Species gregis T. cicutariae, venatione Pleocnemiae soris ut 
videtur nudis ; stipite 35 cm alto, castaneo, deorsum paleis paucis 
anguste lanceolatis fere 1 cm longis vestito; fronde 30-40 cm 
alta et lata, deltoidea, subtripinnata ; pinnis suboppositis, infimis 
deltoideis 15 cm latis, sequentibus biparibus apud baseos bipin- 
natis, sequentium paucarum segmentis serratis subacutis; venis 
hirsutis, lamina fere glabra, membranacea; venis secus costas 
fortissimas anastomosantibus, aliter liberis; soris plerisque sub- 
marginalibus, 1 mm vel ultra latis, superficialibus ; indusio nullo 
vel fugace. 
Loane, King 401. 
In spite of the venation, this is not a near relative of T. leuzeana, but is 
near the so-called Pleocnemia membranacea of Beddome. Rosenstock’s P. 
leuzeana var. lobato-crenata is described as with very hairy lamina, and his 
P. membranacea var. novoguineensis, as having much more reticulate veins. 
TECTARiA KINGII sp. nov. 
Pleocnemia parva, gracile, deltoidea ; stipite 4 cm alto, castaneo, 
deorsum paleis anguste linearibus 1 cm longis sparsis vestito; 
fronde 30-35 cm alta et lata, deltoidea, tripinnata ; pinnis infimis 
deltoideis, sequentibus 1-3-paribus profunde bipinnatifidis, su- 
periorum profunde pinnatifidarum segmentis lanceolatis obtusis 
pinnatifidis deinde serratis, supremis integris; venis tomentellis, 
lamina superne glaberrima, inferne fere glabra; venis more 
