Ila. PLEOPELTIS. § 1. EXJPLEOPELTIS. 399 



divaricating segments 5—15 cm. long, 3—7 cm. broad. Texture herb- 

 aceous ; surfaces naked ; veins fine, indistinct. Sori numerous, irregularly 

 scattered, minute, often elongate. — Tlie true place of this species is 

 uncertain because of incomplete description. It is alUed to PI. tenuiloris 

 Moore and dolichoptera v. A. v. E. 

 Luzon. 



(205) PL (lilaiata, Bedd. 



(205«) PI. Schtilizci, v. A. ». «.,• Polypodium SchuUsei, Brau., 

 in Lautb., Beitr. Flor. Pap., I. 53; C. Chr., Ind. Fil., Suppl. 



Stipes to 30 cm. or more long, narrowly winged, brown, glossy, hairy 

 when young, densely scaly, the scales elongate-deltoid, toothed, peltate, 

 cordate at the base, pale-fuscous. Fronds lanceolate, to 75 cm. long and 30 

 cm. broad, deeply pinnatifld. Lobes + 6 on each side below the terminal 

 one, lanceolate; terminal lobe + 33 cm. long by 8 cm. broad; central 

 lobes + 31 cm long by 6 cm. broad, acuminate; lower lobes somewhat 

 shorter, + 10 cm. apart; higher lobes less remote. Texture chartaceous; 

 surfaces naked ; costa, costulae and main veins prominent, more or less 

 densely short-hairy beneath; veins distinct. Sori numerous, very small, 

 scattered irregularly. 



Neio Guinea. 



(206) PI. inCUl'Vata, Moore. 



(207) PI. laclnlata, Bedd.} PolyxMclium macrochasmum, Bk. 



(208«) PI. pliymatodeis, Moore; Polypodhmi phymatodes, L., 

 Schk., Krypt. Gew., I, tab. 8d, 9, 17; — var. multisecta, Christ, in Nov. 

 (3-uin.. VIII, Bot., 152; ? var. uniserialis, Est., in Fed., Rep., X, 340. 



War. luiiltisecta : Lobes many, connected by a wing tolV2 c™- 

 broad. Sori in 1 row on each side of the costulae, nearer the costulae 

 than the margin. — Neio Guinea. 



(208ffl*) PI. tenuiner^is, v. A. v. n.s Polypodium tenuinerve'' 

 Copel.., in Plrilipp. Journ., IX°, 7. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, the scales adpressed, lanceolate, castaneous. 

 Stipes to 20 cm. long, slender, castaneous. Fronds -t 35 cm. long by 



