348 71. POLYPODIUM. § 1. EUPOLYPODIUM. 



aceous; both surfaces rufo-pilose especially on the costa and edge; costa 

 prominent; veins black, simple when sterile. Sori in 1 row on each side, 

 subcostal, dorsal on the very short anterior branchlets of the arcuate- 

 ascending, forked, fertile veins. 

 Neiu Guinea. 



(27) P. siebcvenosunt, Bit. 



Malacca to Celebes and the Philippines. 



(29a) V. pillstipes, ». A. v. n., in Bull. Btz., 191S, XI, 20 ; P. 

 Maxwellii, -Bft., p. p., v. A. v. R., 1. c. 



Rhizome short, erect, the scales subulate-lanceolate, membranaceous, 

 pale-brown. Stipes subtufted, short, distinctly but not densely clothed 

 with short, pale-brown, deciduous hairs. Fronds simple, to G'/^ cm. long, 

 + 4 — 5 mm. broad, rather entire, blunt or bluntish, narrowed at the 

 base. Texture rather coriaceous; surfaces naked but the edges sparingly 

 and very minutely ciliolated ; costae slightly deciduously pubescent towards 

 the base ; veins oblique, forked, not reaching the margin, with the anterior 

 fork branch the shortest. Sori oblong, subimmersed, nearer the costa 

 than the margin, terminal on the anterior veinlets. 



(32a) See No. 42. 



(35ffl) P. tliplosoi'oides, Mst., in Nov. Guin., VIII, Bot., 724. 



Rhizome creeping, clothed with crowded, pale-brown, lanceolate 

 scales. Stipes somewhat remote, 1 — 2 cm. long, wiry, clothed with long, 

 spreading, pale-ferrugineous or dark-brown, deciduous hairs. Fronds linear- 

 lanceolate, ± 12 cm. long, 7 '/j — 10 mm. broad, narrowed gradually towards 

 both ends, the edge undulate-crenate, sparingly ciliated with long, brown 

 hairs. Texture firm-coriaceous; surfaces naked; costa pilose with long, 

 brown hairs ; veins oblique, forked, the anterior branchlet short, soriferous, 

 the posterior branch long, mostly forked again. Sori roundish, oblong 

 when young, in 1 row on each side, nearer the costa than the margin, 

 superficial. 



New Guinea. 



(376) P. dolichosoruns, Copei. 



A specimen received from Mindanao (Elmer No. 10636) has the 



