71. POLYPODIUM. § 1. EUPOLYPODIUM. 353 



XII, fig. 3 A, a — b; P. subgracillimitm, v. A. v. B., in Bull. Btz., 1912, 

 VII, 40, tab. Ill, fig. 2 a — b; — ? var. planum, Copel., inPhilipp. Journ., 

 IF, 137. 



Rhizome elongate in the adult plant, the scales lanceolate, yellowish 

 to fuscous. Fronds fasciculate, sessile or short-stalked, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, 7 % — 20 cm. long, 4 — 5 mm. broad, deeply pinnatifid, narrowed 

 gradually towards both ends. Lobes remote, ascending, decurrent, con- 

 nected by a narrow wing; barren lobes triangular-lanceolate, 2 — 4 mm. 

 long, straight or somewhat falcate, acuminate, the lower growing grad- 

 ually shorter, obliquely deltoid, acute or bluntish; higher lobes fertile, 

 ovate or roundish-rhomboidal, subacute or. subacuminate, sometimes 

 bluntish. Texture moderately thin to firm; surfaces naked; veins soUtary 

 in the lobes, simple, not reaching the apex of the lobes. Sori solitary 

 and medial on the lobes, with the lower edge of the lobe recurved so as 

 to clasp the sorus. — The forms described and drawn as Grammitis 

 cucuUata Bl. and Galymmodon cucullatus Pr. are not this species. 



Forma typica. — Ceylon (?) across Malaya to Fiji and Neio Caledonia. 



War. planum: Lobes flattened, large, approximate, orbicular- 

 oblong; sori large, superficial. — Mindoro. 



(48a) P. pergracilliinuni, ». Jl. ». n., in Bull. Btz., 1915, XX, 

 23; P. gradllimum, Est. (not Copel.), in Nov. Guin., VIII, Bot., 725. 



Near P. cucuUatum Nees & Bl. but the fronds narrower, 1 — 2 mm. 

 broad, the segments shortly and obliquely deltoid, recurved at the apex. 



Neio Guinea. 



(49a) P. gedeense, ». A. ». K., in Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 33. 



Rhizome elongate, ascending, the scales lanceolate, pale-brown. Stipes 

 approximate, to '/a cm. long, naked, filiform. Fronds linear, + 5 cm. 

 long, + 4 mm. broad, bluntish, deeply pinnatifid, narrowed towards both 

 ends but very gradually towards the base. Lobes distant, connected by 

 their dilated decurrent bases, obliquely deltoid, blunt, entire, or the 

 horizontal upper edge slightly retuse near the apex. Texture subcoriac- 

 eous, fragile when dry; surfaces naked or very nearly so; veins forked 

 in the lobes. Sori solitary on the lobes, at the base, on the anterior 

 veinlets, superficial. 



Java. 

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