71«. PLEOPELTIS. § 1. EUPLEOPELTIS. 391 



(187fl.) I»l. melanocaulos, v. a. v. «,, in Bull. Btz., 191S, XI, 

 19; Polypodmm melanocaulon, v. A. v. R., MS. in Herb. Bog. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, dark-coloured when dry, clothed with long, 

 spreading, flexuose, hair-like, rufous scales. Stipes scattered, + ^^l^— ^^k 

 cm. long, deciduously pilose. Fronds lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, + 

 10 — 30 cm. long, 2 — 4 cm. broad, subrostrate-acuminate, entire, decurrent 

 or cuneate at the base. Texture thin-papyraceous to coriaceous, the thinnest 

 transparent; both surfaces copiously furnished with short and long, more 

 or less persistent whitish hairs; upper surface provided with numerous 

 scattered, white, deciduous, cretaceous dot-like scales; costa somewhat 

 prominent on both sides ; main veins distinct, spreading or nearly horizontal, 

 not reaching the margin; areolae fine, with numerous free veinlets. 

 Sori minute, scattered. 



Borneo. 



(188) PI. punctata, Bedd.; — var. mindanensis, subiridea, 

 subdrynariacea ; Polypodium mindanense, subirideicm, sitbdrynariaceum, 

 Christ, C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Main veins not rarely very indistinct even in dried material, as 

 in Lepisorus. 



(189) PI. niusifolia, Moores — var. Schumanniana, Rst., in 

 Nov. Gmn., VIII, Bot., 729. 



Forma typica: Fronds linear or ligulate, cordate or rounded at the 

 base, sessile; main veins long, rather straigt, reaching nearly the^ margin, 

 connected by transversal arched veins so as to form several rows of 

 nearly regular, subtetragonal primary areolae. — Malaya. 



War. Schumanniana: Fronds smaller, ovate-oblong or pan- 

 duriform to lanceolate, sessile with a cordate base with overlapping auricles 

 to stalked with a long-decurrent base; main veins evanishing gradually 

 towards the margin, connected by transversal veins forming variously 

 shaped primary areolae not arranged in subregular rows, nearly as in 

 PI. myriocarpa Moore. — United with the type by forms having the 

 higher primary areolae subregular, the lower irregular. — New Guinea., 

 Amboina. 



(189a) PI. glossophjUa, v. A. ■». R.,- Polypodium glossophyllum., 

 Copel.., in PhiUpp. Journ. IX*^, 7. 



