71. POLYPODIUM. § 1. EaPOLYPODIUM. 347 



lanceolate, entire scales. Stipes approximate, ± 1 — 2% cm. long, brown, 

 naked. .Fronds linear, 15 — 20 cm. long, 5—7 mm. broad, narrowed 

 gradually towards the base, the margin repand. Texture coriaceous; 

 surfaces naked or the under surface provided with a few scattered 

 minute hairs on the costa ; costa somewhat prominent beneath ; veins 

 immersed distinct when seen towards the light, forked. Sori solitary at 

 the base of the anterior veinlets, subcostal, somewhat remote, suboblong, 

 superficial; capsules setulose. 

 Sumatra. 



(18) I*. MeiTlllli, Copcl. 

 Also in Amboina. 



(21«) I*, parvuat, Bmv., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 36, 

 fig. 2 C^c. 



Rhizome short-ascending. Stipes tufted, filiform, to + 1 cm. long, 

 provided with horizontally spreading, fuscous hairs. Fronds linear-lance- 

 olate, + 3 cm. long by 2 mm. broad, entire or slightly undulate, nar- 

 rowed at both ends. Texture pellucido-membranaceous ; surfaces clothed 

 with long, fuscous hairs; veins simple or forked, ascending, not reaching 

 the margin. Sori roundish, dorsal on simple veins or on the anterior 

 branchlets of forked veins. 



New Guinea. 



(25) I*. |»ai*a§itlciini, Meit. 



A plant gathered in Java, which is probably a form of this species, 

 has the largest fertile fronds + 4 — 6 em. long, subsessile or short-stalked, 

 forked at the middle, with the fork-branches ± 2 mm. broad, the stipe 

 and both surfaces clothed with copious moderately short, red-brown hairs, 

 the sori confined to the upper part of the fork-branches, not reaching 

 the apex. 



Also in Malacca; Br. India. 



(26a) i». felB'tiforme, Rst., in Fed., Rep., XII, 176. 



Rhizome short, the scales minute, ovate, ferrugineous. Stipes aggreg- 

 ate, to 2 cm. long, capillary, densely clodhed with long, weak, spreading, 

 rufous hairs. Fronds simple, linear, to 10 cm. long by 2'/.^— 3 mm. broad, 

 bluntish, entire, narrowed gradually in the lower part. Texture membran- 



