96 



Polypodium (Phymatodes) lomario'ides Knze. Baker Syu. Fil. pag. 365. 

 In Borneo occideatali leg. Teuscher et Tsm. 



Polypodium (Phymatodes) patelliffrum Nob. PI. VII [Locanopteris carnosa , 

 Blume Enumeratio plant. Javae fasc. II pag. 120 , L. carnosa et L. 

 puniila Bl. Flora Javae Tab. XCIV, Polypodium lomario'ides , Kunze 

 Hooker Spec. Fil. V p. 79; Baker, Syn. Fil. p. 3(35] (Davallia (Mi- 

 crolepia) deparioides Ces. Felci pag. 13 fig. 4)? 



Rhizome thick, without scales forming a crust on the stem of trees, 

 surrounding the whole stem, the younger parts of the rhizome often 

 covering the elder ones, in living state glaucous, yellow-brown when 

 dry, the under side with numerous root fibres, the interior of the 

 elder parts hollow and inhabited by a large quantity of ants; st. 

 3 — 6 in. 1. brown , naked , glossy canaliculate at the under side , join- 

 ted on a conical processus of the caudex. Fronds dimorphous, glau- 

 cous, firn-membranaceous naked on both sides, pinnatifid nearly or 

 quite to the rachis with an elongated apex; sterile fronds in. 1. 

 in. br. segments l^/g — 2^/^ in. 1., ^j^ — ^/g in. br. oblong lanceo- 

 late obtuse the margin repand; fertile fronds 12 — 17 in. 1. 3 — 4 in. 

 br, with 20 — 40 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate obtuse crenato-dentate 

 segments 2 — 2^/4 in. 1. main veins conspicuous in the sterile pinnae, 

 purplish-black as is the costa , veinlets immersed anastomosing copi- 

 ously so as to form 2 or 3 rows of areolae the costal ones the lar- 

 gest, areolae with copious free veinlets. In the fertile pinnae the 

 main veins are conspicuous to the edg(!. Sori large , oblong immersed 

 in a deep cavity one on each lobe of the margin, soriferous teeth 

 often turned back on the upperside of the frond. 

 Ins. Karimatae legit Teysmann. 



The species here described agrees in nearly all respects with 

 Mr. Blnme's description of Lecanopteris carnosa, except the 

 peculiar rhizome. There is reason to believe however that 

 Mr. Blume's artist paid not his full attention to that part , and 

 when looking at the Plate it is evident that Blume's words 

 „frons e rhizomate crasso carnosoque prosilit" are not clearly 

 reproduced. I believe that part of this beautiful fern is very 

 little known to pteridologists ; all the specimens in our Her- 

 barium are deprived from it and only possess the conical pro- 

 cessus at the foot of the stipes. It is not doubtful T think that 



