71a. PLEOPELTIS. § 1. EUPLEOPELTIS. 395 



often in 2 rows on each side of the costulae, solitary in the larger 

 areolae, round, large, superficial. 

 New Guinea. 



(199) PI. quiitqueflda, r. A. v. R. 



(199a) PI. Powellii, Carr., Seem., Fl. Vit., 367; Polypodium 

 Powellii, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 364; C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome woody, scandent. Stipes 45 — 60 cm. long, brownish, naked. 

 Fronds 60 — 90 cm. long, 30 cm. or more broad, cut down within 7 mm. 

 of the rachis throughout into close, acuminate, entire lobes 12'/, — 15 cm. 

 long, 1 % — 2 cm. broad. Texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked ; colour 

 dark-green; main veins not at all prominent but distinct when held up 

 to the light; areolae rather large, with copious free veinlets. Sori in 

 single rows about midway between the edge and the costulae. — Lobes 

 narrower and more numerous than in PL nigrescens Cmr.^ the veins 

 different, and the sori not at all immersed. 



Neio Guinea; Samoa. 



(1996) PJ. eeratophylla, ». A. v. R.; Polypodium ceratopMjllum^ 

 Gopel, in Philipp. Journ., IIP, 348, tab. VII; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome slender, creeping, the scales 2'/2 mm- long, ferrugineous, 

 setiform, peltate at the base. Stipes slender, brown, up to + 8 cm. 

 long, winged in the upper half. Fronds up to ± 2'/, cm. long above 

 the wing, to + 4 cm. broad, 2 — 3-furcate, the segments divaricating, 

 simple or once or twice forked again, the barren fronds the less divided. 

 Ultimate segments + 2 mm. broad, blunt, with the margin bounded by 

 a narrow, cartilagineous strand. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; 

 coritae blackish; veins hidden, laxly anastomosing. Sori superficial, in 1 

 row on each side of the costulae. 



Borneo. 



(199c) PI. Schlechteri, ». A. v. r.} Polypodium Schlechteri, 

 Brail., in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I, 54, fig. 3 G—c; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., 

 Suppl.; Aglaomorpha Schlechteri, Cop)el., in Philipp. Journ., IX'^, 9. 



Rhizome creeping, scaly; scales subulate, fuscous, fimbriate, pale- 

 margined, peltate at the base. Stipes scattered, winged, + 15 — 30 cm. 

 long, those of the fertile fronds the longest; wings broadly sinuated, the 



