70 POLYPODIACE^ OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



3. Lateral pinnae more than 6 pairs, veins mostly 2 



together (4) C. pariens 



1. Pinnate with pinnatifld apex (5) C. prolifera 



1. Twice or more pinnate (6) C. esculenta 



(1) C. cordifolia (Blume) J. Sm. Stipes clustered, 20 cm. long, firm, 

 erect, scaly below; frond 30 cm. long, 10 cm. broad, entire, cordate, acu- 

 minate, coriaceous; veins in close groups of about 4, anastomosing copiously 

 in the outer half of the pagina; sori reaching from the midrib to the 

 margin. Less frequently there are one or two pairs of smaller lateral 

 pinnae (Diplazium integrifolium Blume). 



Leyte, Cuming 307. 

 Africa to Polynesia. 



(2) C. alismaefolia J. Sm. Hook. Journ. Bot. 3:409. Stipes 5 to 15 

 cm. high, firm, erect, scaly throughout; frond varying in shape from 

 simple, oblong-lanceolate, 15 to 25 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. broad, entire, 

 acuminate, to ternate or pinnate, with a large terminal and three pairs 

 of lateral pinnae, each like the entire frond of the simple state, coriaceous; 

 veins about three to a group in the inner half, but anastomosing copiously 

 with hexagonal areolae toward the edge. 



Luzon, Cuming 116; Davao, Warburg 14115 (simple), 14102 (trifoliate), 

 14177 (pinnate). 



Celebes. 



Although Presl separates this plant as the genus Ochlogramme from the 

 neighboring two, it is too near them for easy specific separation by the 

 descriptions. 



(3) C. elegans J. Sm. Hooker's Journ. Bot. 3:409. (First described 

 as Anisogonium elegans Presl, Epim. Bot. p. 93. Asplenium lineolatum 

 Mett. in Syn. Fil.) Stipes 15 to 25 cm. high, firm, erect, gray, scaly 

 below; frond occasionally simple, usually with a terminal pinna and 

 3 to 6 pairs of lateral ones, which are 15 to 30 cm. long, 5 cm. or 

 more broad, entire, often suddenly acuminate, coriaceous; rachis naked; 

 veins 4 to 8 to a cluster, uniting slightly toward the edge. 



Luzon, Cuming 276; Leyte, Cuming 305 (A. grossa Presl). 

 Malaya. 



(4) C. pariens Copeland. Caudex black, clothed with lanceolate, dark 

 brown paleae 8 mm. long; stipe channeled, about 35 cm. high, black 

 and somewhat scaly at the base, like the rachis above, green and clothed 

 with very minute fibrils; pinnae in the type 11 pairs, those of the lower 

 half of the frond larger, 10 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, ovate, acuminate, 

 base rounded, short stalked, entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous; terminal 

 pinna like the lateral; upper axils bearing bulbils which grow into 

 young plants before falling; veins once or twice forked, anastomosing 

 and indistinct in the marginal third of the blade; sori linear, straight, 

 extending as far as the veins are distinct. 



Todaya, Davao, altitude 1,100 m., Copeland 1287. 



(5) C. prolifera Bory {Asplenium decussatum Swartz, Syn. Fil.). 

 Stipe 20 to 40 cm. tall, firm, erect, muricate; frond 40 to 120 cm. tall. 



