﻿498 66a PHEGOPTERIS. § 2 EUPHEGOPTERIS. 



B, fig. 7; Nephrodium Totta, 7)je/*, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., P, fig. 91, G.; 

 Dryopleris africana, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Polypodium tottum, Willd., [oldest name). 



Rhizome short, creeping or oblique, the scales brown, lanceolate. Stipes 

 subtufted, 10 — 30 c.M. long, hairy or setulose, scaly below. Fronds 15 — 50 c.M. 

 long, 5 — 25 c.M. broad, ovate-oblong, the apex piunatifid. Pinnae numerous, 

 lanceolate, acute, ^j^ — 5 c.M. broad, the lowest not the longest, short-stalked, 

 cut ± Va'Way down to the costa into regular, blunt, entire lobes 5 72 — ^ 

 m.M. broad. Texture herbaceous; rachis and surfaces pilose or setulose; main 

 veins pinnate in the lobes with 3 — 6 veins on each side. Sori irregular, round- 

 ish or more commonly linear-oblong, medial. — Fronds with the aspect of Dry- 

 opteris parasitica, 0. Ktze. 



Malaya; Japan, Korea, China, North. India, South. Africa, Madeira, Azores. 



* (23) Ph. opaca, Melt., Farng., IV, Phegop. & Aspid., 15; Gymno- 

 gramme opaca, Spr., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 69; Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCXXXVIII; 

 G. obtusata, BL, Flor. Jav., II, tab. XLIII; Ph. obtusata, Christ {not Melt.), Farnkr. 

 d. Erde, 274; Leptogramme opaca, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 379; Dryopleris 

 opaca, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium obtusalum, Diels (not Bedd.), in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., V, 171; Hemionitis opaca, Don, (oldest name). 



Rhizome suberecl or ascending, sparingly scaly. Stipes 30 — 60 c.M. long, 

 strong, stramineous, glossy, naked or slightly scaly. Fronds 50 — 100 c.M. 

 long, 50 — 60 c.M. broad, ovate-deltoid, the apex piunatifid. Highest pinnae 

 pinnatifid, the lobes broadly crenate; lower pinnae longest, pinnate, stalked, 

 5 — 15 c.M. broad. Pinnulae oblong, sessile, decurrent, cut down into rather 

 shallow, slightly toothed or crenated lobes. Texture herbaceous; surfaces naked; 

 rachises and costae commonly slightly hairy; main veins pinnate in the lobes; 

 lower veins soriferous near the base. Sori oblong. 



Java; North. India. 



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GGNIOPTERIS. 



±. Fronds simple. (24) Ph. holophylla. 



1.1. Fronds pinnate ('). 



2. Pinnae entire or crenate (^). 



3. Pinnae under 5 c.M. long in the fully developed plants. 



1. Pinnae not auricled, i — 6 on each side. (25) Ph. simplicifolia. 



(') See also Ph. canescens, Melt. 



('j See also Ph. prolitera, Kuhn & dlversiloba, v. A. v. R. 



