124 polyi'oihacilt: of the rniLii'i'ixE islands. 



(28) P. subauriculatum IJluiiic. Rliizome wide-creeping, bluish, clothed 

 with broadly linear ferruginous scales; stipes 15 to 35 cm. high, firm, 

 brown, shining, glabrous; frond 40 to 120 cm. long, about 25 cm. broad, 

 firm, more or less horizontal, pinnate; pinnae 10 to 15 cm. long, one-tenth 

 as broad, acute or acuminate, serrate toward the apex, rounded or auricled 

 on the lower or both sides at the sessile base, herbaceous or subcoriaceous, 

 glabrous; areolae a single row in the original description, but 2 or 3 

 rows in more recent descriptions and in most of our specimens; sori only 

 in the costal areolae, immersed. 



Luzon, Cuming 244; Benguet, Loher, Barnes 974; Mount Mariveles, 

 Merrill 3208, Whitford 318, Copeland 1382. 

 Himalayas to Samoa and New Caledonia. 



(29) P. moiliculum Copeland. Rhizome wide-creeping, clothed with 

 small, subulate, ferruginous scales; stipe about 10 cm. high, suberect, 

 becoming glabrous; frond 15 to 20 cm. high, 8 cm. broad, pinnate; pinnae 

 narrowly lanceolate, 6 to 8 cm. broad, acute, serrate, or crenate toward 

 the base, short-auricled, more or less truncate, sessile but not adnate, 

 hei-baceous, clothed on both surfaces with a short soft tomentum; veins 

 free beyond a single costal series of areolae; sori scarcely immersed. 



Baguio, epiphytic on pines, Elmer 6505. 



§ Phymatodes. 



(30) P. neglectum Blume. Rhizome slender, wide-creeping, clothed 

 with grayish-ferruginous scales; stipes scattered, 1 to 2 cm. high, firm, 

 glabrous; sterile fronds broadly ovate, 2 to 2.5 cm. high, 1.5 cm. broad, 

 obtuse, rounded below, entire, coriaceous, glabrous; main veins very distinct 

 almost to the edge, veinlets half evident; fertile frond lanceolate-ovate, 

 obtuse at both ends, 3 to 3.5 cm. high; sori large, round, in a single row, 

 superficial, in well-developed fronds about 5 sori in each row, reaching 

 the entire length of the frond. 



Luzon, Meyen: Mount Mariveles, on exposed ridges, Merrill 3244. 

 Java. 



(31) P. rhynchophyiium Hooker. Rliizome firm, wide-creeping, with 

 copious fibrillose bright-ferruginous scales; frond dimorphous, the sterile 

 ones ovate, 3 to 4 cm. long, with stipes about the same length, fertile 

 ones 8 to 15 cm. long, 15 mm. broad, narrowed very gradually upwards, 

 obscurely toothed, on stipes 5 to 10 cm. long, coriaceous, glabrous; main 

 veins distinct to the margin, with copious fine areolae between them, with 

 free included veinlets; sori uniserial, confined to the upper half of the 

 fertile fronds. 



Mount Mariveles, Loher. 

 Upper India. 



(32) P. accedens Blume. Rhizome wide-creeping, slender, sparsely 

 clothed with linear-subulate, dull bro\\Ti scales; stipes 2 to 10 mm. high, 

 firm; fronds not very dimorphous, the sterile 2 to 4 cm. high, ovate, 

 obtuse or subacute, rounded or subcuneate at the base, coriaceous, glabrous 

 except for a few dark scales along the margin; veins invisible; fertile 



