398 71a. PLEOPELTIS. § 1. EDPLEOPELI'IS. 



areolae enclosing very irregular secondary ones with numerous free veinlets. 

 Sori minute, roundish, + 1— 7 between the main veins, scattered irregularly. 

 New Guinea. 



(202ffi*«) PI. tuanensis, ». A. v. it.} Polypodium tuanense, Copel., 

 in Philipp. Journ., IX*"', 8. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, the scales dense, at length suborbicular, 

 black, brown-margined. Stipes curved, ± 10 cm. long, naked. Fronds 

 more than 20 cm. each way, deeply pinnatifid into + 2 segments on 

 each side below the terminal one, shortly decurrent. Segments lanceolate, 

 much acuminated, entire; terminal segment + 2 cm. broad, lateral ones 

 + 1 — I'/i cm. broad. Texture papyraceous; surfaces naked; primary 

 areolae in 1 row on each side of the costulae; secondary ones irregular, 

 moderately visible. Sori minute, superficial, scattered irregularly. 



Neio Guinea. 



(2026) PI. doliclioptera, ». A. ». jk. 



Rhizome slender but woody; stipes often with a narrow wing much 

 more than 3 cm. long. 



(202c) See No. 204. 



(203a) PI. rivularis, v. A. v. n. 



(2036) PI. |»enta|ili.ylla, ». A. v. n. 



(203c) See No. 2026. 



(204) PI. insiignis, Bedd. 



Forma aptera {aperta, in Bull. Btz., 1914, XVI, 29): Stipes to 45 cm. 

 long, shortly winged in the uppermost portion only. — Sumatra. 



(204a.) PI, Curranii, ». A. v. B..; Polypodium Curranii, Gopel., in 

 Philipp. Journ., IV^, 114; C Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Rhizome + 3 mm. thick, clothed with narrow, black-brown scales. 

 Stipes naked, winged in the upper part, up to 4: 15 cm. long, the 

 unwinged, lowest part at least ± 1 cm. long, the wing ± 2 — 3 mm. 

 broad in the broadest part. Fronds furcato-pinnatifid with a few acuminate. 



