560 FILICES. [ Phegopteris. 
Hook. & Arn. l. c. — Sp. Fil. V, 74. — Synops. Fil. p. 361. — Drynaria 
spectrum, Brack. — Colysis spectrum, J. Sm. — Polyp. Thouinianum, Gaud. 
tab. 5. 
: var. ovatum. — Frond simply ovate, with a rounded or cordate base. 
pentadactylum. — Frond deeply 5-lobed, with long acute or rather 
ob lobes the base horizontal, not cordate or sinuose. 
ae and rocks. Nat. name: «Peahi». — Credited also to Sumatra 
on {Stiecean com s anthoat 
9. PHEGOPTERIS, Fee. 
Sori dorsal, round, rarely oblong, without indusium, and not covered 
by the reflected margin of the frond. Stipes continuous with the rhizome. 
bp orateg nai and simple, uniting with the corresponding 
pe ar ext groups as in oo frond pinnate 
(Gon iit . P. polycarpa. 
Veinlets a ‘“ ee as n Lastrea (Euphegopt eri is): 
Frond biy pinnate A triphinesifa, oblong, with ela pinnae 2. P, Keraudreniana. 
on , tripi , deltoid or ovate-oblon: 
Frond polystichoid, fibrillose with glandular scalelets 4. P. crinalis. 
Frond cyatheoid, spri ee ed underneath with resinous dots 8. P. Hillebrandi. 
Frond tri-, ee 
Ultimate segments sharply toothed or spinulose . P. spinulosa. 
_— yoo dus. rake, ae. or paleaceous with ovate scales ; : 
ond 5. P. unidentata. 
Roe: whitish, naked and glossy frond bright green, : 
. P. Sandwicensis. 
Rhachis sale brown or r purplish naked or co overed with 
visco ertiary pinnules mostly opposite ; 3. P. punctata 
ent genus a differs in the absence of an indusium from the sections Nephro- 
dium and Lastrea of the genus Aspidium, and many of its species resemble to such a 
of the latter that they can be distinguished by no other charact re- 
ss ag some species of Nep. ium and Lastrea the indusium is so —— that it 
made out only in the young frond, and not few are those which have long pa 
re etceente until the accidental discovery of an indusium caused them 2 be trans- 
ferred ium. Indeed pepe A dacigerecigti go so far * . unite in one both genera, 
and to consider Phegopteris _ idium r this er of 
importance to pay a con igs a oo ng fronds in species 4 Phegoptert 
1. P. polycarpa, Hillebr. — (Polypodium RES, Hook. &: Arn. in Bot. 
Beech. p. 104. — Caudex erect, attaining as much as 3 ft. in height and 4—5* 
in thickness. Stip. 1'/2—2 ft., light brown, paleaceous at the base with scat- 
tering dark ovate-lanceolate ER OE ous scales, and pubescent besides with 
single-celled stiff hairlets. rond subcoriaceous, dark, pubescent on both faces 
or glabrate, ovate-lanceolate, 1'/2—3 ft. long, pinnate with pinnatifid apex, 
cyatheoid; the rhachis sit aie pubescent. Pinnae 20—30 on a side, 
horizontal, lanceolate-acute, 5—8’  1—1!/2’, subsessile with a truncate 
equilateral e lower half overlapping the rhachis, the upper 
auriculate, the len s subentire or bluntly serrate or undulato-lobulate. 
Veins prominent, pinnate with pa pairs of straight oblique parallel 
veinlets, all except the upper ones joining with the corresponding veinlets 
