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nate, the edge lobed below the acuminate apex, the lobes very irregular, 

 short or to 2 — 3 c.M. long, lanceolate, obtuse, + S*/^ m.M. broad. Apex 

 of the frond often broad, much elongate, lobate. Texture herbaceous; colour 

 pale-grey-green; the whole plant grey-pubescent. Fertile pinnae hardly con- 

 tracted, often soriferous towards the apex only. Sori minute, numerous, 

 irregular, rarely seriate, often elongate. 



\str. acroisticlioicleis : Barren fronds more or less like those 

 of the type, but the fertile fronds very long-stalked with the pinnae much 

 contracted. 



Siibvar. rhoinbea: Fronds + 7 c.M. long, with the terminal 

 pinna elongate and lobate, acuminate. Lateral pinnae + 5 on each side, 

 lanceolate-rhomboidal to linear, subpetiolate, truncate at the base, obtuse, cre- 

 nulate, 4 — 8 m.M. broad. Sori approximate, seriate or confluent. 



Siibvar. lanceola: Barren pinnae lanceolate, nearly entire, the 

 apex obtuse or subacute; terminal pinna much elongate, nearly caudate. 



Philippines. 



(34) l*ll. 'peiinig;ei*a, «?. A. v. M.f Polypodium pennigerum, Forst., 

 Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 317; Dryopleris pennigera, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodium 

 pennigerum, Pr. (not Hk.), Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam, I*, 179. 



Stipes tufted, 15—30 c.M. long, slightly scaly. Fronds 45—60 c.M. long, 

 20 — 50 c.M. broad. Pinnae 2 — 2*/2 c.M. broad, cut ± V2-way down into 

 blunt, falcate, slightly crenate lobes about 5 m.M. broad ; lower pionae gradu- 

 ally reduced. Texture firm-herbaceous; rachis and both surfaces naked; veins 

 6 — 8 on a side. Sori in rows near the costae. 



Philippines, New Guinea; Polynesia, New Zealand. 



* (35«) Pli. prolifcra, Muhn, Christ, Farnkr. d Erde, 270, fig. 

 851; Ph. hixurians, Melt., Farng., IV, Phegop. k Aspid., No. 51; Polypodium 

 proliferum, Rh. (not Pr.), Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 315; Meniscium prolifenim. Sw., 

 Hk., 2"'^ Cent, of Ferns, tab. XV; Dryopleris prolifera, C.Chr., Ind. Fil; 

 Nephrodium prolifenim. Keys., Copel., Polypod. VhxW'p-}^.,'^^; Hcmionilis prolifera, 

 Retz, (oldest name). 



Rhizome stout, creeping. Stipes scattered or approximate, naked, 5 — 20 

 c.M, long. Fronds 30—120 c.M. long or longer, ± 15—30 c.M. broad, erect 

 or decumbent, often elongated and proliferous at the point and from the axils 

 of the pinnae. Pinnae short-stalked, 1 — 4 c.M. broad, the base broadest, trun- 

 cate or cordate, sometimes auricled, the edge coarsely crenate or bluntly lobed 



