316 60a. PHEGOPTEEIS. § 3 GONIOPTBRIS. 



(30) Ph. rubida; v. A. v. R., 



Plants received from Luzon, determined as Nephrodium rubidum. J. 

 Sm. i= N. rubidum Copel), differ from Hooker and Baker's diagnosis in 

 having the stipe and rachis dirty-brown vs^hen dry, the frond smaller, 

 the pinnae pauci-(l — 6)-jugate, shorter, with the apex conspicuously caud- 

 ate-acuminate, the edge subentire to coarsely lobate-crenate, the base 

 cuneate and whether or not provided with a scaly bud on the anterior 

 side, the under surface minutely hairy, the sori partly oblong partly 

 roundish, partly distant partly confluent and meniscioid. — Cuming's 

 original plant is unknown to me. • 



(30a) Ph. rubrinerviii, jaett., Kulm, in Linn., XXXVI, 116; Poi- 

 ypodium rubrinerve, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 315; Dryopteris rubrinervis, 

 C. Ghr., Ind. Fil.; D. urophylla, G. Ghr., var. rubrinervis, Rst., in Fed., 

 Rep., XII, 162. 



Stipe and rachis naked, rubro-stramineous. Fronds deltoid-oblong, 

 60—90 cm. long, simply pinnate. Pinnae ligulate-acuminate, to 30 cm. 

 or more long, + 5 cm. broad, the higher sessile, the lower stalked, 

 crenate, deltoid at the base, more cut away on the lower side. Texture 

 papyraceous; surfaces dark-green, naked; midribs reddish; main veins 

 distinct, 5 — T'/j mm. apart; veins 16 — 20 on a side. Sori remote from 

 the main veins. 



New Guinea; Polynesia. 



(32) Ph. graniilofsa, «. A. «. R. 



A specimen received from Palawan (Merrill No. 9178) has the stipes 

 to 30 cm. long, the fronds 15 — 25 cm. long, the pinnae 3 — 6-jugate, 

 truncate or truncate-subcordate and whether or not slightly auricled on 

 one side or on both sides at the base but mostly on the upper side only, 

 crenate to irregularly toothed, verruculose on the under surface or on 

 both surfaces, the fertile pinnae a little smaller than the barren ones. 



(33) Ph. diverisiloba. Christ. 



Omit the variety acrostichoides, it being referred to Dryopteris 

 Bakeri Copel. 



(34) Ph. pennigera, r. A. «. je. 



Also in Borneo. 



