7L POLYPODIUM. § 1. EUPOLYPODIUM. 345 



(6a) B*. isuI»!'epiaEiduiu, Bmu., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap. I, 37. 



Rhizome short, erect, the scales dense, triangular-oblong, long-acum- 

 inate, entire, pale. Stipes tufted, to S'/j cm. long, clothed with numerous 

 rather horizontal, short hairs. Fronds linear-lanceolate, to 23 cm. long 

 by 1 '/4 cm. broad, bluntly acuminate, repand or slightly crenate, narrowed 

 very gradually at the base. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; veins 

 flexuose, subpinnate with 2 veinlets on the anterior and 1 veinlet on the 

 posterior side. Sori copious, sUghtly immersed, in 2 — 3 rows on each 

 side of the costa. 



New G^iinea, 



(6&) P. serraeforine, Brau., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 

 36, iig. 2 T). 



Rhizome short, ascending. Stipes tufted, I'/j — S'/i cm. long, hairy, 

 scaly at the base, the hairs short, fuscous, dense, the scales triangular- 

 oblong, ferrugineous, entire. Fronds linear-lanceolate, + Q'/^— 14 cm. 

 long by + l'/4 cm. broad, narrowed gradually at both ends, irregularly 

 crenated to toothed or sinuated, ciliated when young. Texture coriaceous; ' 

 costa hairy on both sides; upper surface hairy when young; main veins 

 numerous, sparingly pinnate. Sori 1— 2 on each side of the main veins, 

 immersed, round. 



Neio Guinea. 



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 (ta) P. setaceuBSB, Copel., inPhilipp. Journ., A^F, 139, tab. XXIV. 



Rhizome creeping, clothed with shortly linear, ferrugineous scales. 

 Fronds aggregate, rush- or string-like, + 55 cm. long, I'/a mm- broad, 

 narrowed into a short stipe, entire, naked, the costa grooved above, 

 prominent beneath, the lamina above convex on each side of the costa, 

 beneath concave; veins hidden. Sori nearly costal, elongated. 



Borneo. 



(lb) P. pyxidifornie, v. A. r JS., in Bull. Btz., 1911, I, 28. 



Rhizome ascending, elongated in the fully developed plant, the 

 extremity clothed with crowded, subadpressed, pale-brown, lanceolate, 

 entire scales. Stipes numerous, crowded, erected, very slender, nearly 

 filiform, + '/2 ni™- thick, slightly flexuose-tortuose, + 2V2 — 5 cm. long, 

 subterete, shghtly compressed, sulcate above, naked. Fronds dimorphous. 

 Barren fronds linear or linear-oblong, decurved, to 10 mm. long, hardly 



