60fl. PHEGOPTERIS. § 1. EUPHEGOPTEBIS. 309 



(6a) Ph. polita, v. A. v. K.,- Dryopteris polita, Est., in Fed., Rep., 

 XIII, 2 IS. 



Rhizome erect, densely clothed with firm, brown, linear-lanceolate, 

 sparingly fimbriated scales. Stipes tufted, stramineous-lDrown, naked, 

 sparingly scaly towards the base. Fronds lanceolate-oblong, to 30 cm. 

 or more long, + 15 cm. broad below the middle, 2-pinnate, sub-3-pin- 

 natifld, acuminate. Pinnae 7 — 10 on each side below the pinnatifld apex, 

 ascendi-ng, . the lower distant, stalked, the higher subapproximate, adnate 

 with a decurrent base; largest pinnae + 15 cm. long by S'/j cm. broad, 

 lanceolate-oblong, pinnatifld towards the acuminate, crenate-serrate apex, 

 pinnate towards the base; lowest pinnae shorter, produced on the lower 

 side. Segments slightly crenate, denticulate at the blunt apex, the largest 

 deeply lobed, the lower petiolulate, the following sessile with a contracted 

 base, the higher gradually adnate with a decurrent base and finally 

 confluent. Texture subcoriaceo-chartaceous ; surfaces naked like the rachis ; 

 veins prominent, simple, forked or pinnate. Sori medial. 



Su7natra. 



{8a) Ph. EsjgleriaBBa, *•. A. v. K.,- Bryopteris Engleriana, Brau., 

 in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 19; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome erect. Stipes tufted, + 16 cm. or more long, fuscous, 

 grooved down the face, sparingly hairy and scaly, as is the rachis, the 

 'base densely scaly, the scales fuscous, glossy, elongate-deltoid, toothed. 

 Fronds lanceolate, to + 50 cm. long, + 16 cm. broad, acuminate, 2-pin- 

 natifld, not narrowed at the base. Pinnae remote, + 14 — 16 on each 

 side below the pinnatifld apex, short-stalked, linear-lanceolate, spreading, 

 upcurved, deeply pinnatifld, the apex acuminate, repand; largest pinnae 

 + 10'/, cm. long and 1',, cm. broad; 2 — 3 lower pinnae deflexed. Lobes 

 falcate, to 20 pair, to 1 cm. long and 8^/4 mm. broad, bluntish, slightly 

 crenated, the lowest often remote and separated. Texture papyraceous; 

 surfaces naked ; upper surface dark-green, lower paler ; costae hairy above ; 

 veins indistinct, naked, simple, to 7 on a side. Sori numerous,- to 7 on 

 a side, the lower medial, the following gradually subcostular. 



New Chiinea. 



(9a*) Ph. hypolepioides, v. A. ». n.; Dryopteris Jnjpolepioides, 

 Est, in Fed., Rep., XII, 175. 



Stipes black-brown, punctate-asperulous, clothed with articulate and 



