182 22. DRYOPTEBIS. § 2. NEPHKODIUM. 



caudate-acuminate at the apex, the veins more numerous, to 15 on each 

 side of the costulae (main veins), the lobes more falcate, bluntish. 



Forma typica. — New Guinea. 



War. obtiistata: Fertile fronds with the central pinnae the 

 largest, naked or more or less sparingly hisped, provided beneath with 

 numerous very minute globose yellow glands; lobes more obtuse, broader; 

 indusium minutely glandular. Barren fronds not seen. ^ — Sumatra. 



(97a) See No. 99a. 



(97fe) W. suprasli'igosa, Rst., in Fed., Rep., X,.335;- — var. 

 molhs, Rst., 1. c, 336. 



Rhizome erect, clothed at the apex with ferrugineous, ovate-lanceolate 

 scales. Stipes tufted, to 20 cm. long, brown, subquadrangular, grooved, 

 shortly pubescent. Fronds lanceolate-oblong, nearly 20 cm. Jong, 7 — 8 

 cm. broad, shortly acuminate, pinnate. Pinnae + 20 on a side, sessile, 

 spreading, alternate; 'largest pinnae linear-oblong, to 4 cm. long, 8 mm. 

 broad, shortly acuminate, cut more than Vs^'^'^'^'y down to the costa; 

 ■terminal pinna lobed at the base, entire towards the apex ; higher pinnae 

 truncate at the base, following narrowed at the base, 4 — 6 lower pairs 

 ■reduced gradually to mere auricles. Lobes oblong, subfalcate. Texture 

 ■subcoriaceous ; colour grey-green; upper surface strigose with adpressed, 

 :pale-grey hairs, lower hirsute and glandular; rachis and costae strigose 

 above, pubescent below, as are the veins; veins 4 — 6 on a side, simple, 

 the lowest pair anastomosing or meeting in the sinus. Sori medial, or 

 the lower subcostal; indusium persistent, coriaceous, hairy and glandular. 



WaB*. iiioSlis: Stipes longer; fronds to 45 cm. long, 20 cm. broad; 

 texture herbaceous. 



New Guinea. 



^9Si D. sagittifolia, o. Ktme. 



Also in New Guinea. 



(99a) D. basilaris, C. Chr. 



A specimen received from Luzon differs from Christ's diagnosis in 

 having the stipe and frond much smaller, the stipe glabrescent,' the 

 rachis densely tomentose with short, pale hairs, the pinnae shorter and 

 narrower, obUquely and abruptly broad-cuneate or rounded at the base, 



