S68 71. POLYPODItJM. § 1. EUPOLYPODIUM. 



(102) P. gedeanum, Rac. 



Omit this species, it being referred to P. subsecundo-dissectum Zoll. 



(102a) See No. 68. 



(1025) P. itldcrwereliii, Rst., C. Clir., Ind. Fil., Suppl; P. 

 Koningsbergeri, Rst., in Nov. (ruin., VIII, Bot., 726. 



Stipes aggregate, slender, + 1 — 2 cm. long, clothed like the rachis 

 with long, scattered, spreading, wealc, yellowish hairs. Fronds lanceolate, 

 + 10 — 12 cm. long and 1 % — 2 cm. broad, 2-pinnatifid, narrowed at both 

 ends, the rachis terete, narrowly winged. Pinnae numerous, approximate, 

 erecto-patent, stalked, deeply pinnatifid, unequal-sided, broadest on the 

 anterior side; central pinnae largest, subrhomboidal-oblong, ± 1 cm. long 

 and S'/j mm. broad, bluntish, deeply pinnatifid, obhquely cuneate at the 

 base, the lower base cut away, the stalk marginate or narrowly winged. 

 Lobes oblique, approximate, 3— 4 on the lower side, 4 — 5 on the upper 

 side, the lowest anterior or the next following the largest, oblong, ± 4 

 mm. long, nearly 1 mm. broad, slightly dilated near the apex, entire, 

 blunt, some of them somewhat more dilated and obliquely emarginate or 

 2-fid near the apex with rounded lobules. Texture firm-herbaceous, 

 pellucid ; surfaces naked ; costae prominent ; veins 1 in each ultimate lobe 

 or lobule, not reaching the apex, simple or with a very short anterior 

 veinlet at the base. Sori terminal on the basal veinlets. 



Neic Guinea. 



(103ffl) P. pulcherriinuni, Copeh, in Leaf!., Ill, 841. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, black, clothed with fulvous, ovate scales. 

 Stipes + 1 cm. apart, 2—5 cm. long, naked, or provided with few 

 minute, caducous scales. Fronds elongate-lanceolate, + 20 — 35 cm. long, 

 ± 3 — 7 cm. broad, 2-pinnate, the main rachis dark, narrowly marginate. 

 Pinnae and pinnulae contracted, the former spreading or horizontal, the 

 latter subterete when barren, to + 5 mm. long, + 'U -Va i^^m- broad, 

 + 1 — 1'/, mm. apart, acute; fertile pinnulae flattened, lanceolate, to + 

 2 mm. long, + '/j — '/4 ^'^^ hroad at the dilated middle. Texture coriac- 

 eous; surfaces naked or the rachises sparingly flbrillose; veins 1 in each 

 pinnula. Sori occupying the upper '/s — Vi of the frond, solitary and 

 medial on the pinnulae. 



Mindanao. 



