71a. PLEOPELTIS. § 1. EUPLEOPELTIS. 377 



Vai'. suiuatraiia: Rhizome scales whitish; fertile fronds 

 about twice as long, long-stalked, truncate-crenate ; sori superficial or 

 slightly immersed. — Sumatra. 



(14r5) PI. hammatisora, v. A. v. E. 



Omit this, it feeing referred to PI. nummularia Moore. 



(146) PI. steasogiteriis, ». a. ». Jt. 



(147) PI. HovUlens, v. A. ». K., 1. c, tab. III. 



(147ffl) 1*1, Wersteegii, ®. A. ». jk,,- Polypodium Versteegii^ Christ, 

 in Nov. Guin., VIII, Bot., 154; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome slender, firm, wide-creeping, dark, minutely scaly and 

 verruculose. Stipes distant, 1 — B'/j cm. long, those of the fertile fronds 

 the longest, sparingly clothed at the base with minute, blackish scales. 

 Barren fronds oval, + 5 — 8 cm. long, + 1^2 — ^^k cm. broad, blunt or 

 bluntish, entire, cuneate and subdecurrent at the base, the edge somewhat 

 thickened and prominent beneath. Testure coriaceous ; colour brown-green ; 

 surfaces naked or sparingly furfuraceous ; costa distinct; veins oblique, 

 flexuose, indistinct, hardly reaching the margin; areolae with free included 

 veinlets. Fertile fronds lanceolate, + 12 — 15 cm. long, + 1% — 2 cm. 

 broad, cuneate at the base. Sori in 1 row on each side, medial between 

 the midrib and edge, large, round, shallowly immersed, forming slightly 

 elevated, impressed papillae on the upper surface (in dried material). 



Neto Guinea. 



(1476) PI. soi'OBBBasies, v. A. ». R.,- Polypodium soromanes, Christ, 

 in Nov. Guin., VIII, Bot., 152; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome long, twining, ochraceous, naked or sparingly covered with 

 brown, ovate, scattered scales. Stipes distant, naked, yellow-brown, 4 — 20 

 cm. long. Barren fronds lanceolate-oblong, 7 — 14 cm. long, + 172 — ^'/^ 

 cm. broad, obtuse, entire, provided with a roundish auricle at the base 

 on one side, not decurrent. Texture thin-chartaceous ; surfaces naked; 

 colour pale-green; costa distinct; veins fine, not reaching the margin; 

 areolae irregular, with included free veinlets. Fertile fronds linear, + 

 15 — 40 cm. long, blunt, cuneate or rounded and unequal-sided at the 

 base, the margin sinuate-undulate, bounded with a somewhat thickened 



