﻿60o. PHEGOPTERIS. § 1. EUPHEGOPTERIS. 49S 



ornata, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodium tenericaule, Hk., Spec. Fil., IV, 

 tab. CCLXIX (not page 142); A^. omatum, Christ (not Bk.), Copel., Polypod. 

 Philipp., 26; Aspidium ornalum, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 130. 



Caudex erect, sometimes subarborescent. Stipes, main and lateral rachi- 

 ses clothed with linear-lanceolate scales and muricate or scabrous from their 

 persistent bases, not pilose, viscous or glaucous. Fronds large, to 6 M. long, 

 3-pinnate, the rachises narrowly winged. Pinnae generally 60 c.M. long or 

 longer, + 30 c.M. broad. Pinnulae ^'/j — S c.M. broad, the rachis scabrous 

 and scaly, and furnished with long, white, subulate hairs. Tertiary segments 

 numerous, parallel, 6—7 m.M. broad, linear-oblong from a sessile, square base, 

 connected by a narrow wing, rather distant, the apex blunt or acute, the 

 edges deeply toothed or lobed. Texture thin-herbaceous; costae and ofteu also 

 the veins hairy; veins simple or forked in the ultimate lobes. Sori near the 

 costulae, 1 to each ultimate tooth or lobe, medial on the lowest anterior 

 veinlet. 



Malaya; South. China, North. India, North. Australia, Polynesia. 



(16) Ph. aspemla, v. A. v. JR,.; Polypodium asperulum, J. Sm., 

 Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 311; Dryoplens asperula, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium 

 asperulum, Copel., Polypod. Philipp.; 25. 



Stipes firm, terete, brownish, pubescent. Fronds 45 — 60 c.M. long, 30 

 c.M. or more broad. Lower pinnae 15 — 25 c.M. long, 5 — 8 c.M. broad. Pin- 

 nulae lanceolate, ± 1 — l^/j c.M. broad, unequal-sided, cut down to the rachis 

 below into oblong, pinnatifid, unequal-sided divisions. Texture subcoriaceous; 

 rachis and both surfaces villose; veins immersed. Sori copious, 1 to each 

 ultimate lobe. 



Philippines. 



* (17) Ph. panctata, Mett. (not Bedd.), Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 

 277; Polypodium punctatum, Thb., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil,, 312; Hypolepis punctata, 

 Mett., Kuhn, Fil. Afric, 120; Nephrodium punctatum, Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, 177; Dryopteris punctata, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; — var. rugulosa; 

 P. rugulosum, Lab., Hk., Spec. Fil., IV, 272; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CLXX; 

 H. rugulosa J. Sm., Bot. Mag., LXXII, Comp. 8 ; N. rugulosum, Copel., Poly- 

 pod. Philipp., 26. 



Rhizome firm, wide-creeping, clothed with reddish hairs or fibrils. Stipes 

 scattered, 30 — 60 c.M. long, + viscous, hairy or fibrillose, at length often 

 naked. Fronds 45 — 120 c.M. long, 3— 4-pinnate. Pinnae lanceolate or deltoid, 



