71. POLYPODroM. § 1. EUPOLYPODIUM. SS9 



or semiorbicular, entire, bluntly rounded, dilated and contiguous at the 

 base, separated by rounded sinuses + as broad as the pinnae, the 

 anterior side obliquely decurved, the upper and outer edge more or less 

 revolute. Texture very thick; surfaces naked; rachis flexuose, sulcate, 

 and sparingly and deciduously provided above with black-brown, setiform 

 hairs, prominent beneath; veins invisible. Sori round, superficial or 

 hardly immersed, 1 — 2 in the lower part of the pinnae, at length confluent; 

 sporangia very sparingly spinulose. — Very peculiar by the slightly 

 twisted pinnae, which give the whole frond the aspect of being spirally 

 twisted when seen from the side. 

 Neio Gruinea. 



(596) P. sikkiuienise, Mier., C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; P. frichomanoides, 

 Bedel, Hand. Ind. Ferns, 308; Ferns Br.I., I, tab. II. 



Rhizome short, erect, paleaceous above. Stipes short, 1'/, — 2'/2 cm. 

 long, densely tufted, patent-villous with long, fibrous hairs. Fronds linear, 

 7% — 15 cm. long, '/a — 1 cm. broad, narrowed at both ends, deeply pin- 

 natifid, pinnatt; at the very base. Segments rather horizontal from a 

 broad base, ovate-oblong, entire, subconcave beneath. Texture rigidly 

 membranaceous; surfaces subdeciduously hairy with long, fibrous or 

 blackish, patent hairs; veins solitary in each segment, simple or forked. 

 Sori solitary on the lobes, near the base of the veins and the costa. 



Malacca; Br. India. 



(59c?) P. piBlogense, Copeh, in Philipp. .Journ., VF, 148. 



Rhizome short, provided with a few entire, pale-brown scales. Stipes 

 close, very short. Fronds 5 — 8 cm. long, 5—7 mm. broad, narrowed at 

 both ends, deeply pinnatifid. Segments narrowly triangular, acute, 

 conected by a narrow wing. Texture coriaceous; surfaces deciduously 

 hairy; veins 1 in each lobe, simple in the barren lobes, forked in the 

 fertile ones, with a short anterior veinlet bearing a single round sorus. 



Luzon. 



(63a) P. riifescens, Bvaw., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 43. 



Rhizome short, erect. Stipes densely tufted, slender, + 3 — 3',s cm. 

 long, copiously clothed like the rachis and both surfaces with long, 

 spreading, rufescent hairs. Fronds linear-lanceolate (-oblanceolate ?), + 

 11 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, bluntish, narrowed gradually towards the 



