306 60fl. PHEGOPTERIS. § 1. EUPHEGOPTERIS. 



hair-like, the lower more resembling those of the stipe; surfaces naked; 

 costae beneath sparingly piloso-squamulose, glabrescent; main veins fine, 

 flexuose, pinnate; veins free, 2 — 4 on a side, alternate, subparallel to the 

 main veins. Sori round, in 2 — 3 irregular rov^^s on each side of the 

 costae, inframedial on the lower veins. 

 Sumatra. 



(la) Ph. llouissetii, ^. ji, ^. jt.. Bryopteris Moiissetii, Est., in 

 Fed., Eep., VIII, 278; C. Chr., Ind. Fil, Suppl. 



Rhizome erect. Stipes slender, + 15 cm. long, slightly pubescent, 

 clothed with flaccid, ferrugineous, narrowly lanceolate, somewhat ciliate 

 scales. Fronds up to 65 cm. long, 12 cm. broad, elongate-lanceolate, 

 pinnate, the base truncate, the upper part pinnatiiid or lobed, long-acum- 

 inate, the apex crenate. Pinnae subopposite, spreading, the higher and 

 central ones adnate, the lower ones sessile or short-stalked ; central pinnae 

 largest, up to 6 cm. long, 1 — 1 % cm. broad at the base, subapproximate, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, straight or somewhat falcate, the lower part cut 

 '/i-way down or more to the costa into shortly linear, somewhat oblique, 

 entire lobes which are repando-crenulate at the obtuse apex, the apex 

 subrepand ; lower pinnae somewhat shorter and broader, to 4 % cm. apart ; 

 higher pinnae decurrent, confluent at the base. Texture thinly herbaceous ; 

 colour yellowish-green; upper surface nearly naked or with a few sub- 

 adpressed, subulate hairs, lower provided with long, straight, hyaline hairs 

 and short-stalked, globose, yellow glands; rachises brown, hirsute above, 

 sparingly setulose beneath; main veins pinnate in the lobes; veins 3 — 5 

 on each side, simple, or those of the lower lobes forked. Sori 1 — 3 on 

 each side, nearer the margin than the main veins, occupying the lower 

 veins; capsules sometimes provided with 1 — 2 hairs. 



Java. 



(16) Ph. schizoloma, ». A. ». K., in Bull, Btz., 1914, XVI, 24; 

 Dryopteris- schisoloma, v. A. v. R., MS. in Herb. Bog. 



Stipes purple-brown, 22 cm. more or less long, deciduously fibrillose- 

 tomentose, as is the rachis, at length glabrescent and rather glossy, the 

 pubescence (hairs) rather dense, ferrugineous or fuscous, articlilated. Fronds 

 ovate-oblong, 2-pinnatifid, deeply pinnatifid towards the entire or toothed, 

 acuminate point. Barren fronds + 40 cm. long, ± 25 cm. broad at or 

 near the base; pinnae subremote, to 16 cm. long, the higher linear, sub^ 



