APPENDIX. 71a. PLEOPELTIS. 525 



Rhizome stout, clothed with crowded, lanceolate, acuminate, silvery- 

 white scales. Stipes 2—7 cm. long, terete, naked. Fronds dimorphous; 

 barren fronds lanceolate, + 10 cm. long by 2—2^2 cm. broad, acuminate, 

 recurved at the edge, cuneate at the base. Texture coriaceous; veins to 

 40 or more on a side. Fertile fronds linear, + 13 cm. long by 2 mm. 

 broad. Sori large, elliptical. — The proper place of this species is 

 uncertain because of incomplete description. 



NeiD Guinea. 



(143fl) PI. acceilens, Moofe; Polypodium rhynchophyllum, Christ 

 (not Hk.), in Schura. & Laut., Flor. deut. Sch.geb., Suppl., 46, (p.p.?). 



Forma typica: Soriferous region of fertile fronds proportionally broad, 

 the sori therefore not or hardly protruded beyond the margin. — 

 Malaya; Polynesia. 



Forma excedens: A duplicate of Schlechter's No. 14398, received as 

 P. rhynchophyllum iJ/c, has the soriferous region of the fertile fronds 

 more contracted, and the sori therefore conspicuously protruded beyond 

 the margin. — Neic Chiinea. 



(144«?) 1*1. renifera, iStrfl., in Trans. Linn. Soc, Bot., 2nd 

 Ser., IX, 263. 



Rhizome slender, clothed with narrow, pale, acuminate scales. Stipes 

 slender. Fronds dimorphous. Barren fronds linear-spathulate, + 5 cm. 

 long by 3 mm. broad, rounded at the apex. Texture coriaceous; surfaces 

 naked; costa prominent; veins hidden. Fertile fronds linear, + 15 cm. 

 long by 2 mm. broad, obtuse, undulated at the edge, narrowed gradually 

 into the stipe. Sori + 16, round, remote. — The proper place of this 

 species is uncertain because of incomplete description. 



New Guinea. 



(157) PI. siibgeiuinata, r. A. v. JS.; Polypodiiim subgeminatum, 

 Christ., in Schum. & Laut., Flor. deut. Sch.geb., Suppl., 47 ; P. phymatodes, 

 L., Copel., in Pliilipp. Journ., VF, 89, p. p. ; — var. ovata, Rst., in Fed., 

 Rep., X, 340. 



Rhizome elongated, firm, provided with few scattered, deciduous, 

 dark, orbicular scales. Stipes 1 — 3 (mostly 2) on short, lateral branchlets 

 of the rhizome, 1 mm. to 3 cm. long, naked, 2-marginate. Fronds entire, 

 acute or acuminate, rotundate or rotundate-cuneate at the base. Texture 

 coriaceous; upper surface provided with scattered, white-cretaceous, dot-like 



