﻿338 59. CHEILANTHES. % 2. ALEURITOPTEtllS. 



(3) Cli. rufa, non (not Desv.), Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 141; Hk., Spec. 

 Fil, II, tab. IC, A; Bedd., Ferns Br.L, I, tab. CXLIV. 



Stipes tufted, 2 '/2 — S c.M. long, densely clothed with rusty-brown, woolly 

 tomentum like the rachis. Fronds 8 — 25 c.M. long, 4 — 8 c.M. broad, ovate- 

 lanceolate, 2-pinnatifid. Pinnae opposite, the lower ones with 2 — 5 c.M. 

 space between them, oblong, much shorter than the central ones, with the lowest 

 segments on the lower side produced, the higher ones linear-oblong, regularly 

 lobed or wavy. Texture herbaceous or ftaccido-coriaceous ; surfaces somewhat 

 tomentose, under surface more or less coated with white powder. Sori 

 roundish, small, numerous; indusium brown, ragged or ciliale. 



Philippines; North. India. 



* (4) Ch. farinoisa, nif., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 147; Bedd., Ferns 

 S.I., tab. CXCI; Hk. & Grev., Ic. Fil., tab. CXXXIV; Pteris farinosa, Forsk., 

 (oldest name); — var. chrysophylla ; Ch. chrysophylla, Hk.,S^ec.Fi\.,U, 115; Ch. 

 argentea, Kze, var. chrysophylla, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 142; Hk., Fil. Exot., tab. XCV. 



Stipes densely tufted, 10 — 30 c.M. long, polished, dark-brown, clothed with 

 scattered, deciduous, linear-lanceolate scales. Fronds 5 — 30 c.M. long, 4 — 15 

 c.M. broad, 5-pinnatifid. Pinnae in opposite pairs, sessile, the lower ones the 

 largest, remote, reaching to the rachis, with the segments on the lower side 

 longer than the others and deeply lobed, the higer ones confluent at the base 

 so as to form a deeply pinnatifid, acuminate terminal pinna. Texture sub- 

 coriaceous; rachis and costae polished, naked, dark-brown; under surface 

 covered with white, waxy powder. Indusia brown, scariose, rounded, conti- 

 guous or confluent and then waved or lobed, the margin entire or toothed. 



Var. chrysophylla : Powder yellow. 



Trop. Asia, Africa, America, Fiji, China, Japan. 



§ 3. EUCHEILANTHES. 



1. Rachis naked. 



2. Fronds 2-pinnatiftd. (5) Ch. varians. 



3.2. Fronds at least 3-pinnalifid. 



3. Indusium fransversally oblong, narrow. (6) Ch. tenuifolia. 



3.3. Indusium roundish-obreniform, broad. (7) Ch, multifida. 



1,1. Rachis tomentose. 



