62a. ANOGBAMMA. 325 



Rhizome short. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome. Fronds pin- 

 nately divided, naked; leaflets cuneate-.flabellate ; veins free, flabellato- 

 dichotomous. Diels, in Engl. & Prantl., Nat. Pfl.fam., I\ fig. 136 A—B; 

 Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., tab. VI, fig. 52a (as Eugymnogramme). 



Tropical and extra-tropical. 



(Ij A. leptophylla, X^inle, Fil. Sp., 137; Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Nat. Pfl.fam, I'', fig. 136 A — B; G-ymnogramme leptophylla^ Desv., Hk. 

 Bk., Syn. Fil., 383; Hk., Br. Ferns, tab. I; Hk. & Grev., Ic. Ffl., tab. 

 XXV; Polypodium leptophyllum^ L. (oldest name). 



Stipes tufted, 1 — 12'/., cm long, slender, glossy, brown, those of the 

 fertile fronds the longest. Fronds subdimorphous, ovate or deltoid, 2 — 10 

 cm. long, 1'', — 4 cm. broad, the barren ones the smallest, 1 — 2-pinnate, 

 the fertile ones the largest, 2 — 4-pinnate. Leaflets roundish or flabelliform, 

 spathulate or obovate, 3 — 10 mm. long, as broad or somewhat narrower, 

 cuneate at the base, the outer edge rounded, more or less deeply incised ; 

 leaflets of the barren fronds the largest. Segments cuneate or oblong, 

 simple, emarginate or 2 — 8-lobate into roundish or oblong, blunt ultimate 

 lobules. Texture delicate-membranaceous ; rachises and surfaces naked; 

 veinlets 1 to each ultimate lobule, not reaching the apex. 



West and South Europe, tropical and extra-tropical Africa, Persia, Br. 

 India across Java to Australia, New Zealand, Central America to Argentinia. 



64. .A-IVTHI^OPIIYM:, Xaulfwss. 



(2a) A. vittarioides, nn., in Journ. of Bot., XXVIII, 267; v. A. 

 v. R., in Bull. Btz., 1913, XI, 2, tab. II; — var. majus. v. A. v. R., 

 1. c, 1914, XVI, 56. 



Rhizome short, the scales lanceolate, blackish. Stipes tufted, very 

 short. Fronds linear, + 15 cm. long, 6—8 mm. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed gradually towards both ends. Texture moderately firm ; surfaces 

 naked; veins forming long narrow areolae parallel to the midrib and 

 margin, without free veinlets. Sori intramarginal, long-linear, sunk in 

 distinct grooves in 1—2 rows on each side of the midrib, parallel to the 

 midrib and margin. — Specimens gathered in Borneo have the fronds 



