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 ^8. EL^^PHOGLOSSXJM, Schott. 



§ 1. ACONIOPTERIS. 



(1) E. gorg;4»neiiiiB, Brack. 



Stipes tufted, those of the barren fronds 2^1^ — 10 cm. long, those of 

 the fertile fronds longer, to 15 cm. or more long; barren fronds 15 — 40 

 cm. long, 3 — 8 cm. broad, the vein tips not rarely more or less distinctly 

 united at the inner side of the cartilagineous edge. 



North India, Malaya to Polynesia. 



(2a) E. ffleSlwigianuni, JR**., in Nov. Guin., VIII, Bot., 731. 



Rhizome short-creeping, woody, sparingly provided with blackish or 

 brownish scales. Stipes 1 — 4 cm. long, shghtly deciduously scaly, those 

 of the fertile fronds the longest. Fronds broadly oblong, 1 ^/^ — 3 cm. 

 long, 1 — I'/j cm. broad, blunt, entire, pellucid-margined, cuneate at the 

 base, the fertile ones the smallest. Testure rigidly coriaceous; surfaces 

 provided with scattered, brown or blackish, fimbriate scales, at length 

 naked ; veins hidden. 



Neto Guinea. 



(3) E. angulatuui, Moore. 



Rhizome scales ovate to lanceolate, when young pale-yellow-brown, 

 when adult pale-brown; stipes naked or provided with scattered, small, 

 pale-yellow- brown squamules ; fronds naked or provided with very minute, 

 scattered, brown, stellate-lacerate squamules. 



Also in Luzon. 



(3a) E. laovogtiineerase, Mst., in Fed., Rep., X, 341. 



Rhizome suberect; scales membranaceous, yellow-brown, broadly 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate, sparingly fimbriate. Stipes 6 — 10 cm. long, 

 stramineous, brown at the base, sparingly scaly, soon naked. Fronds 

 elongate-lanceolate, + 25 cm. or more long, 8 cm. broad, narrowed 

 gradually at both ends, the edge entire or subrepand, recurved, pellucid, 

 the base decurrent. Testure chartaceo-coriaceous ; both surfaces sparingly 

 scaly, the scales smah, brown, lacerate; costa prominent, sulcate above, 

 flattened beneath; veins hardly visible, simple or forked. 



Neio Gh.iinea. 



