248 45ft. PTERIS. § 1. EUPTERIS. 



again; segments or simple pinnae to 25 cm. long, % — ^|^ cm, broad, with 

 the edges pale-cartilagineous, subentire, or slightly serrate-crenate towards 

 the apex. Texture chartaceous; rachis purple-brown, glossy, grooved 

 above, glabrescent ; under surface deciduously short-hairy, at length naked ; 

 veins subhorizontal, approximate, simple or forked, fine, pellucid. Sori 

 long, not reaching the apex of the segments ; indusium subscariose, entire ; 

 capsules intermixed with stalked, red-brown, clavate paraphyses. 

 Neto Guinea. 



(11) Pt. eretica, X,.,- Schk., Krypt. Gew., I, tab. 90; — var. 

 Wimsettii ; Pt. Whnsetfii, hort. 



War. IWinisettii: Pinnae partly very irregularly lobed and not 

 rarely irregularly dichotomous at the apex; lobes spinuloso-serrate, the 

 lateral ones horizontally spreading. 



(lib) Pt. deltoidea. Copel., in PhiUpp. Journ., Vic, 85; Ft. 

 glabella, Est., in Fed., Rep., IX, 423. 



Fronds + 30 — 35 cm. long, pinnate. Pinnae erecto-patent, simple or 

 forked, or the lowest stalked and irregularly 3-partite or once or twice 

 forked again, with the leaflets free, sessile or stalked, or connected at 

 the base; highest pinnae often adnate and connected with the terminal 

 one. Ultimate leaflets similar to the simple pinnae, linear, + 5 — 20 cm. 

 long, + 4 — 7'/ J mm. broad, narrowed gradually towards both ends, 

 acutely serrate when barren, broadly repand or subundulate in the fertile 

 portions. Texture firm; surfaces naked; main rachis rather stramineous 

 or pale-brovra hke the stipe; costae prominent beneath; veins numerous, 

 nearly horizontal. Sori long, narrow. 



New Guinea. 



(14) Pt. serriilata, X-. f.,- Schk., Krypt. Gi-ew., I, tab. 91. 



(16) Pt. seinipiuuatii, JL.;Pt. flabellata, Schk., Krypt. Gew., I, tab. 93. 



(20) Pt. OalhoHsiae, Mh. 



Also in Malacca. 



(21a) Pt. graeSllima, Ust., in Fed. Rep., IX, 424; ? Pt. 

 Beccariana, C. Chr. (t. Copel.), 



