310 60a. PHEGOPTEKIS. § 1. EUPHEGOPTEKIS. 



narrowly lanceolate, curved, reddish-brown squamules. Fronds elongate- 

 ovate, to 40 cm. or more long, 4; 14 cm. broad below the middle, 3- 

 pinnatifid, the apex acuminate, toothed, the base slightly narrowed. Pinnae 

 + 20 on a side, alternate; central and lower pinnae upcurved in the 

 upper part; largest pinnae + 10 cm. long by 2'/j cm. broad; lower 

 pinnae a little abbreviated, the lowest opposite. Pinnulae to + 18 on 

 a side, subremote, nearly horizontal, linear-oblong, obtuse, deeply pin- 

 natifid, truncate or cuneate at the base. Lobes oblong, subentire, obliq- 

 uely decurrent, the lowest contracted at the base. Tezture herbaceous; 

 surfaces naked; under surface paler than the upper; rachis and costae 

 like the stipe; veins simple. Sori numerous, 1 — 3 on a lobe, remote from 

 the margin, at length confluent. 

 New Guinea. 



(12a) Ph. baiiajaoensiis, «. A. ». jr.,* Bryopteris tenerrima, 

 Copel, in Philipp. Journ., IV°, 111; D. banajaoensis, C. Chr.,lnd.Fi\.,Sui)^l. 



Rhizome erect. Stipes + 20 cm. long, close, blackish, succulent, 

 slender when dry, the base thickened in fresh material, clothed with 

 small, bright-brown, ciUated squamules. Fronds up to 25 cm. long and 

 15 cm. broad, subdeltoid, B-pinnatifld. Lower pinnae short-stalked, acum- 

 inate, produced on the lower side at the base. Pinnulae sessile, mostly 

 obtuse, the lowest posterior ones the largest, cut down to a narrow wing 

 into oblong, obtuse, inciso-crenate lobes. Texture thinly membranaceous; 

 rachis and surfaces naked; colour black-green when dry; veins simple. 

 Sori medial, small, subglobose. 



Luzon, Mindanao. 



(15a) Ph. heferolepia, r>. A. «. n., in Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 

 23; Bryopteris heterolepia, v. A. v. E., MS. in Herb. Bog. — var. remota, 

 v. A. V. R., 1. c, 24. 



Stipes + 40—60 cm. long, pale-brown when dry, copiously provided 

 like the rachis with pale-brown, entire, subulate-linear scales with a 

 dark-brown, streak-hke, persistent, transversal base, the lower scales dense, 

 long, intermixed with shorter ones, the higher scattered, growing gradually 

 shorter and nearly filiform, intermixed with a few larger ones. Fronds 

 triangular-lanceolate, + 45—65 cm. long, + 30—45 cm. broad at or 

 above the base, deeply and copiously 3-pinnatifld, acuminate. Pinnae 

 close, short-stalked, horizontal, opposite or nearly so, straight or sub- 



