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(177) PI. Zippelii, Moore. 



{Ilia) PI. cochleat'is, ». A. v. JR.; Poly podium cochleare^ Brau., 

 in Laut., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 48; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales triangular-sub alate, peltate, acuminate, 

 entire, pale, squarrose. Stipes + 5 mm. apart, slender, firm, tortuous, 

 + 3 — 5 cm. long, of the fertile fronds the longest. Fronds spathulate or 

 lanceolate, + 572 — ^'/o cm. long, '/^ — 1','j cm. broad, the fertile ones the 

 longest and narrowest, subobtuse, narrowly revolute at the edge, cuneate 

 at the base. Texture papyraceous ; surfaces naked ; main veins prominent ; 

 areolae indistinct. Sori in 2 rows between the main veins, slightly immersed. 



New Guinea. 



(178) PI. iiteinbraiiacea, Moore. 



Omit the variety gratidifolia^ which is a form of the type only. 

 Also in Malacca. 



(179) PI. leucopliora, ». A. v. K. 



(180) PI. triqiietra, ». A. v. K. 



(181a) PI. rnpeistriis, Mosre; — var. taeniopsis ; — var. subalbula ; 



— var. leucolepis. 



Rhizome scales not iridescent ; fronds not invariably black-dotted above. 



Forma typica; Rhizome scales dull-brown. — Malaya. 



Var. taeniopsis: Rhizome scales ferrugineous. — Celebes. 

 New Guinea. 



War. subalbula: Intermediate between the type and PI. albula 

 i\ A. ?'. R. but the rhizome scales often yellow-brown, not aristate. 



— -lava. 



War. Icueolepis: Rhizome scales white. — New Gtiinea. 



(181a*) PI. uig-rlcans, ®. A. v. R., in Bull. Btz., 1915, XX, 22; 

 PL rujjesfris, Moore, var. nigricans, v. A. v. R., 1912, YII, 24 ; Polypodium 

 nigricans, v. A. v. B., MS. in Herb. Bog.; — var. parallela; PI. rupestris, 

 Moore, var. parallela, v. A. v. R., 1. c. 



Near PI. rupestris Moore but the rhizome scales iridescent, the upper 

 surface dark-brown or blackish when dry, the under surface paler, grey 



