330 65. LOXOGEAMMA. 



Rhizome creeping, scandent, clothed with lanceolate, apiculate, grey- 

 castaneous scales. Stipes nearly wanting, subarticulate. Barren fronds 

 + 30 cm. long, + 2 cm. broad when dry, + 3 cm. broad in fresh 

 material, acute, broadest above the middle, crisped or broadly undulate, 

 rufescent in the lower part. Texture rather fleshy; costa rufescent, 

 keeled above; main veins wanting; veins laxly anastomosing, with few 

 free included veinlets. Fertile fronds contracted, 30 — 40 cm. long, 3 — 4 

 mm. broad, keeled, acute at the edge. Sori long, linear, 1 on each side 

 of the costa, often continuous, occupying the upper -/„ of the fronds, with 

 few linear, non-capitate paraphyses. 



Negros, Mindanao. 



(10) li. paltouioides, Copeh, in Philipp. Journ., VF, 87; XF, 

 tab. IV, fig. 15; Polypodium paltonioides, C. Gh., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome creeping, ascending (scandent?), clothed with pale-brown, 

 subulate scales. Fronds scattered or approximate, sessile or nearly so, 

 lanceolate, 15 — 20 cm. more or less long, + 1 % — 2 cm. broad, narrowed 

 very gradually to the base, entire. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; 

 costa prominent on both sides. Sori linear, 1 on each side of and 

 parallel to the costa, rather medial between it and the margin, confined 

 to the narrowed upper part of the frond. 



New Gruinea. 



efo. sy]vor.^.3j:m:^^, j. smith. 



§ 2. TOXOPTERIS. 



(5a) S. aug;u!S(a, Copel., in Philipp. Journ., 111^', 348. 



Rhizome creeping, woody, clothed at the apex with minute, obscure, 

 lanceolate scales. Stipes approximate or aggregate, naked except at the 

 paleaceous base, + 5—20 cm. long, those of the fertile fronds much the 

 longest. Barren fronds simple, not decurrent, much acuminated, ± 20 — 30 

 cm. long, + 2 cm. broad, the margin entire, cartilagineous. Texture 

 subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; veins partly simple partly forked (united 



