86a. LEPTOCHILUS. § 1. POECILOPTEKIS. 435 



oblong, shortly acuminate, the terminal one + 16 cm. long and 3'/2 cm. 

 broad, the following much ascending, simple, entire, subsessile, the lowest 

 horizontal, deeply forked, short-stalked. Texture membranaceo-herbaceous ; 

 colour yellow-green when dry ; surfaces naked except on the costae above ; 

 costae distinctly prominent beneath, less so above; main veins oblique, 

 straight, reaching nearly the margin; areolae numerous, irregular, with 

 free veinlets. Fertile pinnae narrowly contracted, circinato-flexuose. 

 Lombok Island. 



(11) Iv. (lives'sifwliess, C. Chv.s Acrostichum tiariaUe, Hk., vaf. 

 Eascimalae, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 50. 



(12) Ij. l*re§>liaiius, C. Chf. 



Also in Singapore. 



(15) li. vlfCBtS, C. Chf. 



Rhizome thick, short-creeping. Stipes + 10 — 20 cm. long, furnished 

 with a few deciduous scales, as is the rachis. Fronds + 30 — 60 cm. 

 long, pinnate ; rachis not rarely winged. Pinnae 10 — 30 on a side, sessile 

 or short-stalked, elongate-lanceolate, to 2^1^ cm. broad, acute or acuminate, 

 entire, crenate, repand, serrated or lobed to ^l^-y^Sij down, with the 

 segments entire, crenated or serrated, the base often more or less 

 unequal-sided; terminal pinna often much elongated and proliferous. 

 Texture rather herbaceous; surfaces naked; costae prominent; main veins 

 distinct to + -.'3 of the way to the margin ; areolae broad, in 3 — 4 rows, 

 the costal ones without veinlets, the others generally with 1 to several 

 irregularly disposed, free or connected excurrent veinlets. Fertile pinnae 

 much contracted, entire to lobed according to the form of the sterile 

 ones. — Very variable. 



Malacca, Java, Celebes, Philippines; BurmaJi, Br. India, Ceylon. 



(16a) I^. cuspidaius, C. Chr.; — var. marginalis, Rst., in Fed., 

 Rep., IX, 426. 



Var. marginalis: Fertile pinnae numerous, repand to lobed to 

 Vj-way down to the costa, with the sori confined to a broad marginal 

 line. — Neio Guinea^ 



