110 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE POLYNESIAN FERNS 



POLYPODIUM (PHYMATODES) PHYMATODE8, L. 



Admiralty Islands, Am Islands, Little Kei Island, Banda, Api (New 

 Hebrides), and Matuku (Fijis). 



P. (Phymatodes) nigrescens, Blame. 

 Admiralty Islands. 



332*. P. (Pleuridium) phlebiscopum, Baker, n. sp. Rhizome 

 woody, flexuose, short-creeping, £ inch thick, clothed with membra- 

 nous, erect, lanceolate acuminate pale brown scales 2 lines long. Stipe 

 1-3 inches, rigid, naked, stramineous, grooved down the front. Lamina 

 simple, oblong or ovate-oblong, entire, 1^-3 inches long, 8-15 lines 

 broad at the middle, blunt, or subacute, deltoid at the base, rigidly 

 coriaceous, naked on both surfaces. Main veins erecto -patent, quite 

 distinct to the edge, erecto-patent, |-| inch apart ; intervening areolae 

 fine, immersed. Sori superficial, 3-4 in a single row between each 

 erecto-patent vein, round ; if single, a line or more broad ; often 

 confluent, and then forming an oblong mass 2-3 lines broad. 

 Summit of Ternate. 



Near the New- Caledonian P. selligueoides and like small P. 

 Griffithianum, but sori in a row between main veins not solitary. 



384*. P. (Pleuridium) Moseleyi, Baker, n. sp. Rhizome not 

 seen. Stipes 6-9 inch long, stramineous, naked. Lamina quadran- 

 gular or rhomboid, simply pinnate, 8-15 inches long, 8-12 inches 

 broad, naked, subcoriaceous. Pinnae 4-6-jugate, linear-acuminate, 

 all dilatato-adnate at the base, erecto-patent or subpatulous, 4-6 

 inches long, |-| inches broad, the terminal one like the rest but often 

 larger, the margin horny and irregularly repand, the costa and main 

 ribs glossy and stramineous. Main veins of pinnae 3-4 lines apart, 

 erecto-patent, very distinct nearly to the edge ; areolae immersed, 

 rather large, with copious, knobbed, free, included venules. Sori 

 round, slightly immersed, under a line broad, one between each main 

 vein nearer the edge than the midrib. 

 Ternate 2000-4000 feet, and received previously from the same island 

 from De Vriese and Teijsmann. 



Differs from P. palmatum by its fewer and more distant main 

 veins and sori, the latter not quite median, and pinnae all dilatato- 

 adnate at the base. 



P. (Drynaria) heracleum, Kunze. 

 Teraate, 2000-4000 feet. 



P. (Drynaria) quercifolium, L. 



Camiguen (Philippines), Aru Islands, Little Kei Island, and Wednesday 

 Island (Torres Straits). 



