i'DiAi'uDiK.T: — r(»iAi'<ji>ir.M. 133 



2 cm. broad, obtuse, base subacute, entire, subcoriaccous, glabrous; fertile 

 frond about 20 cm. hifjli, l."> to 2 em. broad, .subacute, acute at base, 

 subcrcnate; veins bidden, main veins not n-acbing margin; sori large, 

 idiHiil, iminiTscd, in single rows ni'iiMT the margin than tlie costa. 

 Ta\'aba--. Mirrill :!.'i.")."i; Negros, l'<>}ii'liind lOl. 



(71) P. lomarioides Kunze. Itbi/.ome forming a tbick, wide-spreading 

 crust, thickly clothed with small, peltate scales which are ferruginous 

 iti tiie center, with a scarious border; stipe about 10 mm. high, erect; 

 frond .^O to ')0 cm. high, 10 to 1.") em. broad, the sterile |iinnatifid into 

 close, horizontal, oblong, entire, obtuse lobes 2 cm. broad, tlie fertile cut 

 nearly to the rachis throughout into more numerous lobes, hardly 1 em. 

 broad, coriaceous, glabrous; veins hidden, irregular; sori round or oidong, 

 completely immersed, in single rows near the midrib. 



Luzon, Cuiiiin;/ 242 ( ?). 

 Malaya to Formosa. 



S Drynariopsis. 



(72) P. heracleum Kimze. Rhizome very stout, clothed with long, 

 fibrillose, light-l)rown scales; fronds seriate, 100 to 3.50 cm. long, GO to 

 loo cm.; broad, the base reduced to a broad rigid wing, 15 cm. l)road, 

 weak in chlorophyll, the upper part cut down nearly to the rachis into 

 acute entire lobes 50 cm. long, 10 cm. broad, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous; 

 main veins distinct to the margin, with about eight series of large areoliE 

 inclosing numerous small ones with free veinlets; sori small, numerous, 

 scattered, slightly immersed. 



Sorsogon and Catandnanes. Hdrmidn : Mindoro, Merrill ISOO. 

 Java, Celebes. 



(73) P. meyenianum Schott. Rhizome very stout, densely beset with 

 long, linear, crisped, ferruginous scales; frond tiO to loo em. high, the 

 basal part about 15 cm. broad, shallowly lobed, rigid, brown; the sterile 

 vegetative region 40 to GO cm. high, 20 to 30 cm. broad, pinnatifid almost 

 to the rachis into ereeto-patent obtuse, entire lobes 2 to 3 cm. broad, 

 coriaceous, glabrous; main veins reaching the margin, between them four 

 or five series of rather regular major areola, each including about eight 

 rectangular minor ones; apical fertile part about 30 em. liigh, pinnate, 

 the pinnae sinuous, narrowly linear, about 20 cm. long, lobed to the 

 midrib into roundish segments, each covered by a single sorus. 



Luzon. Cuming 40; Mount Mariveles, Merrill 3224, Whilford 221. Cope- 

 land 13SG, on lofty ridges. 



(55) LECANOPTERIS Blunie. 



Rhizome creeping, inflateil, ea\ernous and inhabited liy ants; fronds on 

 conical cavernous outgrowtlis of the rhizome, pinnatifid or pinnate; veins 

 anastomosing with free included veinlets; sori on reflexed marginal out- 

 growths of the fronds, facing upward. Epiphytic, usually in the tops of 

 lofty trees. Closely related to some species of Polypodium. 



(1) L. carnosa lUwme. Rhizome and phyllophores forming a thick 

 close covering over the boat, glabrous on the outside; stipes about 5 



