﻿*70. TAENITIS. 860 



Rhizome creeping. Stipes S — 8 c.M. long, slender, glossy, naked. Fronds 

 5' 2 — S c.M. long, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, undivided, ovate-oblong, the apex blunt, 

 mucronate, the edge entire (sometimes irregularly incised from the effect of 

 injury), the base + rounded. Texture subcoriaceous ; areolae large, oblique. 

 Sori in a continuous or slightly interrupted line ± 3 m.M. from the edge, 

 often united at the apex. 



Borneo. 



• (2) T. bleclinoldes, S»»., Rac, Flor. Biz.. I, 61 ; Bedd., Ferns 

 Br.I., I, tab. LIV; Pteris blechnoides, Willd., (oldest name); — var. interrupta, 

 Hk., Spec. Fil., V, 188; T. mterrupla, Hk. ^ Grev., Ic. Fil , tab. LXIIl ; — 

 var. latior, Christ Ann. Btz., XX, 128. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales capillary, short. Stipes 20—70 c.M. long, 

 firm, naked, glossy. Fronds simply pinnate, 15 -60 c.M. long, 15 — 50 c.M. 

 broad. Pinnae ± 3 — 7 or more on each side below the terminal one, 15 — 30 

 c.M. long, 1 — 5 c.M. broad, the fertile ones not rarely the narrowest, lanceo- 

 late-elongate, the point acuminate, the edge entire or wavy, ± thickened, 

 the base cuneate; lower pinnae stalked. Texture coriaceous; areolae copious, 

 oblique, without free veinlets. Sori commonly in a continuous line ± midway 

 between the midrib and edge. — Fronds of the young plants not rarely 

 simple, similar to the pinnae of the adult fronds, but mostly broader. 



^aP. Hiitemipta: Pinnae smaller; sori commonly in an interrupted 

 line nearer the edge than the midrib, sometimes submarginal. 



Var. latior: Pinnae few ( + 3 — 5), to + 4^3 c.M. broad. 



Trop. Asia, Fiji; — var interrupta: Singapore, Lingga, Borneo; — var. 

 latior: Borneo, Banca. 



* (3) T. Sitenophylla, Christ, Ann. Btz., XX, 129. 



Near T. blechnoides, Sw. Pinnae + 8 on each side, + 12 c.M. long, ± 

 V2 — 1 c.M. broad, linear-lanceolate, the fertile ones the narrowest. Costa 

 narrow; veins very fine. Sori submarginal, hardly immersed, continuous or 

 slightly interrupted. 



Borneo. 



