374 71. POLYPODIUM. § 3. GOOTOPHLEBIUM. 



serrulate, truncate at the slightly dilated base. Testure papyraceous; 

 veins forming a single row of areolae on each side. Sori small, num- 

 erous, immersed. 

 Neiv Guinea. 



§ 6. PLEOPELTIS. 

 Omit this section, it being referred to the genus Pleopeltis. 



§ 7. SELLIG-UEA. 

 Omit this section, it being referred to the genus Pleopeltis. 



Sori round, oblong, linear-oblong or linear, several to many on each 

 side of the costa, superficial or immersed, the round and oblong ones 

 dorsal, or submarginal and not rarely protected by the recurved margin- 

 the of the frond when young, the oblong ones either parallel or oblique to 

 the costa or the margin, the linear ones always dorsal and nearly always 

 oblique. No indusium but the capsules sometimes covered by long- 

 stalked peltate scales when young. 



Rhizome mostly long and creeping, rarely short and erect or tuberous, 

 generally scaly, very rarely naked. Stipes as a rale articulate to the rhizome, 

 the articulation often indistinct and sometimes wanting in the smaller 

 species. Fronds simple, pinnatifid or pinnate ; surfaces naked, scaly of hairy, 

 the hairs not stellate; veins anastomosing as a rule very irregularly, if 

 somewhat regularly, then not as in Polypodium §§ G-oniophlebium, 

 Phlebodium or Campyloneuron ; free included veinlets often present in 

 the areolae, generally thickened at the apex, mostly spreading in various 

 directions, rarely directed towards the costa or the margin. (') 



Tropical and subtropical. 



(') See the information under Polypodium. 



