392 71 ft. PLEOPELTIS. § 1. EUPLEOPELTIS. 



Rhizome creeping, densely clothed with glossy, black, narrowly 

 lanceolate scales. Stipes ± 1 cm. long. Arm, nailed, castaneous. Fronds 

 ohlanceolate-elongate, + 60—90 cm. long, + 7 'i™- broad above the 

 middle, narrowed gradually towards both ends, acute, entire, the very 

 base often suddenly contracted. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; 

 under surface glaucous; costa prominent beneath; main veins numerous, 

 somewhat oblique, straight, reaching nearly the margin ; areolae in 4 — 5 

 rows on each side, not conspicuous. Sori in 2 somewhat irregular rows 

 between the main veins, round, superficial. 



New Gtiinea. 



(190«) PI. valitia, r. A. v. JR. 



(1906) PI. gnonstroiSa, e. A. v. «.,• — var. leucophlebia ; — 

 var. integrior. 



(191) PI. fWeinlandii, ». A. ». n. 



(191ffl) PI. Iiolosericea, ». A. ». le.,- Polypodium holosericeum, 

 RsL, in Fed., Rep., V, 375; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome short-creeping, subcarnose, densely scaly, the scales membran- 

 aceous, ferrugineous, paler at the margin, shortly toothed, narrowly 

 lanceolate from a broadly rounded, peltate base, the apex long, hair-like, 

 curved. Fronds subsessile or short-stalked, simple, lanceolate-oblong, to 

 20 cm. or more long, ± S'j^ cm. broad, acute, the margin sinuato-repand, 

 bordered by a callous line, the base narrowed very gradually. Texture 

 herbaceo-chartaceous ; colour brownish when dry; surfaces densely clothed 

 with weak, short, subhamate hairs ; costa and veins dirty-yellow, prominent 

 on both sides; main veins erecto-patent, subflexuose, reaching nearly the 

 margin; primary areolae in 4 — 5 rows on each side of the costa, divided 

 into numerous irregularly subquadrangular smaller ones with free included 

 veinlets. Sori unknown. 



Neio Guinea. 



(192) PI. paucijiiga, v. A. v. R. 



(192a) PI. d'Oiiiwellli, v. A. v. R.; Polypodium CromweUii, Rst., 

 in Fed., Rep., X, 340; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Illllillill— M1W 



