60fl. PHEGOPTERIS. § 3. GONIOPTERIS. 319 



Caudex erect, to about 60—90 cm. high. Fronds large, about 

 120—150 cm. broad, 2-plnnatifld. Pinnae approximate, sessile, horizontal, 

 linear, about S'/^ cm. broad. Lobes linear-oblong, subfalcate, acute. 

 Texture coriaceous; veins and edges setose; veins numerous, the 2 — 4 

 lower anastomosing. Sori small, approximate; capsules naked. 



Forma typica. — Tahiti. 



War. novogiiiueenisis: Pinnae more deeply pinnatifld; lowest 

 veins only anastomosing: capsules setose. — New Gh.iinea. 



4. STEGNOGRAMMA. 



(38) l*h. caneiscenis. Meti. 



War. siibsiinplicifolia. — Also in Mindanao. 



(38a) Ph. mclanophlebia, v. A. v. it.; Dryopteris melanophlebia, 

 Copel., in Philipp. Journ., VF, 147; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome short. Stipes approximate, 1 — 10 cm. long, those of the 

 fertile fronds the longest, setose. Simple upper portion of the frond ± 

 4—5 cm. long, 1 — 2 cm. broad, obtuse, entire or with 1 — 2 minute lobes 

 at the base; below this 1 — 2 pair of sessile or adnate, roundish or 

 oblong pinnae 2 — 4 mm. long. Texture coriaceo-papyraceeus ; surfaces 

 setose, the setae scattered, caducous except on the lower part of the 

 costa beneath ; veins of the terminal pinna distinct, often blackish beneath, 

 the 2 lower often anastomosing; veins of the lateral pinnae often free, 

 Sori costular, more or less elongated. — This differs from Ph. canescens 

 Mett. var. subsimplicifolia in having the pinnae still more reduced. 



Negros. 



(39a) I»h. iStegiiOgrainnia. Mett.} — var. meniscioides, v. A. 

 V. R., in Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 27. 



War. ineniscioides ; Pinnae narrowed rather regularly from 

 base to apex; sori mostly produced along the anastomosing intermedial 

 veins. — Sumatra, 



(39a*) See No. 29d. 



