318 60a. PHEGOPTEEIS. § 3. GONIOPTEEIS. 



Stipes to more than 40 cm. long, like the rachis livid -brown, very 

 shortly paberulous, grooved, the groove provided with scattered, ferrug- 

 ineous, lanceolate, acuminate squamules and blunt, short spines. Fronds 

 linear-oblong, to 75 cm. or more long by 32 cm. broad, 2-pinnatifld, 

 obtusely and shortly acuminate, cordate-truncate at the base. Pinnae 

 suberecto-patent, the higher sessile, the lower subpetiolulate ; largest 

 pinnae linear, to 18 cm. long by 1-74 cm. broad, acuminate, the base 

 truncate, the edge cut about 'Z, — '/j-way down to the costa. Lobes 

 somewhat oblique, about 3 mm. broad, slightly crenulate, the apex 

 obliquely truncate; lower lobes of lower pinnae somewhat reduced. 

 Texture herbaceo-chartaceous ; upper surface olive-green, naked, lower 

 paler, shortly gianduloso-pilose ; veins to 8 on a side, simple, the 3 — 4 

 lower anastomosing. Sori costular, to 8 on a side. 



New Guinea. 



(87a) Ph. ariuala, ». A, ». Je.j Dryopteris cmnata, Rst., in Hed- 

 wi., LVI, 351. 



Rhizome erect, the apex densely clothed with reddish-brown, subulate, 

 setoso-ciliate scales. Stipes to more than 70 cm. long, spiny and densely 

 scaly; spines black-brown, setiferous; scales deciduous, similar to those 

 of the rhizome. Fronds lanceolate-oblong from a truncate base, to 2 m. 

 long by 1 m. broad, shortly obtusely acuminate, the rachis stramineous, 

 spiny and scaly. Pinnae short-stalked or subsessile, linear, the apex 

 gradually acuminate, the edge cut nearly ^l2-"W8i,y down to the costa; 

 lower and central pinnae horizontal, the lower to 50 cm. or more long, 

 5 cm. broad, produced on the lower side, truncate and slightly narrowed 

 at the base. Lobes subfalcate, V2 — 2 cm. long, 4 — 6 mm. broad, obtuse. 

 Texture rigid; surfaces naked; colour olive-green; costae densely short- 

 hairy above; veins to 15 — 20 on a side, sparingly shortly puberulous, 

 the 4 — 5 lower anastomosing. Sori inframedial, the higher subcostular, 

 the lower more or less divaricating. 



Neiv Guinea. 



(376) Ph. longissima) «. A. ». it.; Goniopteris longissima, Brack.., 

 Expl. Exp., XVI, 29, tab. V; Nephrodium longissimum.. Dials, in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Nat. Pfl.fam., I*, 179; Polypodium longissimum, Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 Y, 7; Dryopteris longissima, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; — var. novoguineensis, 

 Est., in Hedwi., LVI, 351. . 



