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shape, and margin of tlic pinnit' and tlicir freedom from the rachis, and 

 size of the paleae. 



(62) P. albido-squamatum Blume. Rhizome stout, wide-creeping, 

 clothed with reddish or gray-brown paleae which are ovate at the base and 

 long-subulate; stipe 15 to 40 cm. high, erect, polished; frond 30 to 60 

 cm. high, about .30 cm. broad, pinnate; pinnae erecto-patent, linear or 

 lanceolate, very acuminate, entire or nearly so, coriaceous, glabrous, the 

 lower stalked, the upper sessile; main veins visible but not conspicuous, 

 veinlets ending inider submarginal lime-spots; sori in single rows, usually 

 nearer the -midrib than the margin. Philippine specimens are mostly 

 narrower than the type, belonging in P. vurians Blunic, which is not a 

 distinct species. 



Luzon, Cuming 202, 236; ^Mounts Arayat and ^Mariveles, Loher ; Benguet, 

 Topping 150, 215, 202, Elmer 6203: Mount Mariveles. Copeland ; Jolo 

 Archipelago. Burbidge. 



Malaya. 



(63) P. lagunense Clirist. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6(1898) :201 cum Icone. 

 Rhizome wide-creeping, solid, clothed with ovate-subulate, umbonate, reddish- 

 browii appressed scales; stipe 10 to 15 cm. high, firm, glabrous; frond 

 15 to 20 cm. high, 10 to 15 cm. broad, pinnate, dimorphous; pinnae of the 

 sterile frond 6 or 7 on each side, remote, oval, 4 cm. long. 2 cm. broad, 

 acuminate, subcrenate, sessile or short-stalked, coriaceous, glabrous; pinnae 

 of fertile frond linear-lanceolate, caudate, erecto-patent, 12 cm. long. 4 to 

 10 mm. broad, crenate; costa prominent, veins inconspicuous, veinlets hidden; 

 sori large, round, innnersed, in single rows, one sorus between each two 

 main veins, midway between costa and margin. 



Los Banos, Laguna. Loher. 



§ Selliguea. 



(64) P. Selliguea Mett. {Gymnogramme membranacea Hooker). Rhi- 

 zome wide-cree[)ing, clothed with small, linear, nearly black scales; stipe 

 5 to 15 cm. high, nearly naked; frond 15 to 30 cm. high, 2 to 4 cm. broad, 

 very acuminate entire, attenuate below and decurrent. ])apyraceo-herba- 

 ceous, glabrous; main veins distinct to the margin but zigzag and very 

 slender, imited by similar transverse veinlets to form large hexangular 

 areolae; sori in oblique interru])ted lines, one line between each two main 

 veins. 



Saniar, Cuming 325. 334. 

 ^Lilaya. 



(65) P. macrophyllum .Mett. Kliizome creeping, clotlud with small, 

 dark, lanceolate .scales; .stipe 2 to 3 cm. high, firm, scaly, frond 30 to 60 

 cm. high, to 8 cm. broad, narrowed gradually toward both ends, entire 

 or repand, papyraceous, glabrous; main veins conspicuous, not straigiit, 

 areoliv rather quadrangular, free veinlets evident ; sori in single continuous 

 or interrupted rows between the main veins. 



liohol, Cuming 351; Rizal, Loher; Benguet, Barnes 067. 

 Malava. 



