﻿538 65. LOXOGBAMME. 



Vai*. gigas: Fronds to 65 c.M. long, to 8 c.M. broad, caudate, the 

 margin hardly involute, slightly crisped. 



Trop. Asia, China, Melanesia ; — var. gigas : Laguna {Philippines). 



* (4) li. lanceolata, Pr.^ Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 68; Bedd. 

 Ferns S.I., tab. LI; Gymnoqramme lanceolata, Hk., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 71* 

 Antrophyum lanceolalum, BL, Flor. Jav., II, tab. XXXVI; Polypodium loxo- 

 gramme, Melt., Farng., I, Polypod., 112; C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome slender, wide-creeping, the scales small, dense, brown, linear- 

 lanceolate. Fronds 15 — 30 c.M. long, 5—20 m.M. broad, the point acute or 

 acuminate, the edge entire, the lower '/j — '/^ narrowed gradually to the base 

 or a short stipe. Texture coriaceous, flaccid; surfaces naked; costa slightly 

 prominent above, flattened beneath; areolae with few free veinlets. Sori oblique, 

 short, near the costa, falling well short of the margin. 



Trop. Asia, Polynesia, Japan, Abessinia, Guinea, Mascarenes, Natal. 



* (5) Ei. Blunicaua, Pr., Tent. Pterid., 215; L. avenia Sf coriacea, 

 Pr., 1. c. ; Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 393 ; Gymnogramme avenia, Bk., Rac, 

 Flor. Btz., I, 72; Antrophyum avenium ^ coriaceum, BL, Flor. Jav , II, tab. 

 XXXVII: Polypodium avenium ^ Blumei, Melt., Farng., I, Polypod., 113 & 

 114; P. Blumeanum, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; — var. Forbesii, Rac, 1. c, 73. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales linear-lanceolate, acuminate, brown. Fronds 

 + 10 — 60 c.M. long, + 1 — 7 c.M. broad, linear- or spathulate-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, the edge entire, the lower part narrowed gradually to 

 the acutely cuneate base or a short stipe to 2 c.M. long. Texture coriaceous; 

 surfaces naked; colour mostly darker in the smaller forms {L. avenia, Pr.: ± 

 10 — 30 c.M. long, + 1 — 2 c.M. broad), commonly paler in the larger ones 

 {L. coriacea, Pr., = Blumeana typica: ± 25—60 c.M. long, ± 2 '/a —'7 c.M. 

 broad); costa prominent above, flattened beneath; areolae fine, small, with seve- 

 ral free veinlets. Sori erecto-patent, reaching nearly from the midrib to the edge. 



\av. Forbesii: Like L. coriacea, Pr., but the fronds with the lower 

 half broad, abruptly narrowed at the broadly cuneate or rounded base. 



Malaya; Japan; — var. Forbesii: Sumatra (Forbes, Nos. 2234 Sc 2262o). 



(6) li. conferta, Copel., Volypod. Vhili^i^., 68; Drymoglossum confer- 

 fum, Copel., Perk., Fragra. Philipp., 187; Polypodium Copelandii, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome slender, creeping, clothed with small, thin, brown, lanceolate, 

 acuminate scales. Fronds crowded, on stalks 1—7 m.M. long. Sterile fronds 



