380 71a. PLEOPELTIS. § 1. EUPLEOPELTIS. 



bluntish, the base acute, the edge thickened, revolute, broadly repand in 

 the fertile region. Texture thick ; surfaces naked ; no main veins ; areolae 

 hidden, with few free veinlets. Sori more or less oblong, to twice as 

 long as broad, parallel to the edge, confined to the upper ^/j — ^j^ part of 

 the fronds, placed in a line nearly close to the edge, deeply immersed so 

 as to form laterally compressed, truncate-conical warts on the upper surface. 

 Celebes. 



(157) PI. seiltgeitiinata, ». A. v. M..; — var. ovata; PolypocUum 

 subgeminatum, Christ, var. ovata, Rst., in Fed., Rep., X, 340. 



War. ovaia; Fronds shorter, broader, ovate, acuminate. — New 

 Guinea. 



(158) 9*1. ijapwaiia, ©. A. «?. M. 



(158a) 1*1. acBBtlfolia, w, A. v. M.s PolypocUum acutifolium, Brau., 

 in Lautb.,' Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 49. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, the scales dense, when young peltate, deltoid- 

 subulate, afterwards oval, obtuse, adpressed, brown, pale-margined, lacerate. 

 Stipes + 2 — 5 cm. apart, 2 — 5'/^ cm. long, firm, naked, very narrowly 

 winged. Fronds lanceolate, to 16 cm. long, + ^'/j cm. broad, the apes 

 very long-caudate-acuminate, the edge narrowly revolute, the base cuneate. 

 Texture coriaceous; upper surface dark, provided with whitish, cihate 

 scales, lower paler, naked; veins distinct. Sori in 1 row on each side 

 of the costa, nearer the costa than the margin, oblique, oblong, immersed ; 

 paraphyses fungiform, the apex crateriform, ciliated. 



Neio Gruinea. 



(159) Pi. Asigiabellae, «5. A. v. a..; Bendroconclie Annabellae, Copel., 

 in Philipp. Journ., VF, 91. 



(160) PS. lycopodi®lcIeiS, J**-. 



(161) PI. E&aafiii, *■>. A. ». M. 



(161a) PL insperata, r. A. «. K., in Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 28; 

 PolypocUum insperatum, v. A. v. B., MS. in Herb. Bog. 



Rhizome creeping, slender, clothed with brown, lanceolate-subulate. 



