4-5(1. PTEBIS. § 1. EUPTEEIS. 251 



Forma typica: Fronds 3 — 5-partite, the pinnae not proliferous and 

 the veins not indistinct at least in some specimens. 



War. ja%'aiiica: Like the type but the stipes stramineous on the 

 upper (inner) side, pale-fuscous on the lower (outer) side, darker and 

 scaly towards the base. Pinnulae more numerous and longer, with the 

 veins conspicuous, simple or forked. Sori not seen. — Branches not 

 proliferous, sulcate and tomentose above. — Java, Mindanao. 



(34) Pt. mixta, Christ. 



Omit this species here, see No. 216. 



(35a) ■**. treniiila, K. ».-., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 161 ; Hk., Spec, 

 Fil., II, 175, tab. CXX B; — var. cheilanthoides, Rst., in Med. R. H. L., 

 1912, lA, 32. 



Stipes 30 cm. or more long, strong, erect, naked, polished, bright- 

 chestnut-brown. Fronds 60 — 120 cm. or more long, 15 — 60 cm. broad, 

 3 — 4-pinnate, the terminal pinna with a few closely placed, linear, entire 

 lobes which are" obliquely decurrent at the base, the largest hardly more 

 than 2'/2 cnr. long, 2"2 mm. broad (5 mm. broad in Hooker's plate), obtuse 

 serrate-crenate in the sterile portions ; lower pinnae compound, sometimes 

 30 cm. long, with the lower pinnulae narrowed gradually from a broad 

 base, the ultimate lobes similar to those of the terminal pinna. Texture 

 herbaceous; rachis and both surfaces naked; veins sunk, about 3 mm., 

 apart at the base, usually once forked, Sori copious, sometimes filling 

 up the whole- under surface of the segments except the costules. 



Forma typica: Sori not interrupted. — Australia, Tasmania, Neio 

 Zealand, Norfolk Island. 



Waa*. cbeilanthoidcji^ : Sori interrupted, cheilanthoid. — Lorn- 

 bok Island. 



(35&) PI. Sclilcehterl, iSvau., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 

 33, fig. 2 B—b. 



Stipes to 46 cm. or more long, above stramineous and grooved, 

 beneath brown, glabrescent, when young pale-brown-scaly. Fronds 3- 

 pinnate at the base, + 48 cm. long, 38 cm. broad. Pinnae opposite, 

 spreading, stalked, to 30 cm. long, 17 cm. broad at the base. Pinnulae 

 stalked, to 15 cm. long, 9 cm. broad. Tertiary segments spreading, to 

 15 on a side, sessile, linear-subulate, the largest + 10 cm. long, 1^4 cm- 



