﻿^1. POLYPODItJM. § 1. EUPOLTPODIUM. a. INTEGRIFOLIAE. 879 



• (16a) P. fasciatum, Pr. (not Mett.), Rac, Plor. Btz., I, 88, 

 Grnmmitis fasciata, BL, Flor. Jav., II, 117, tab. XLIX, fig. 1, 



Rhizome strong, horizontally creeping, clothed with broad, grey or ferru- 

 gineous scales. Stipes V2 — IV2 c.M. apart, 2 '/a — 10 c.M. long, rigid, naked, 

 slightly scaly at the base, dark-colored. Fronds to 30 — 45 c.M. long, 5 — 10 

 m.M. broad, linear, narrowed gradually towards both ends, the edge entire. 

 Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; midrib prominent, conspicuous; veins 

 immersed, once or rarely trice forked, with the branches reaching nearly to 

 the edge. Sori oblong (elliptical when young), close to the midrib. 



Malaya. 



(166) P. fiubfasciatuin, JK##., Fed., Rep., V, 41. 



Rhizome short-creeping, slender, clothed with pale-rufescent, narrow, lan- 

 ceolate, entire scales. Stipes — 2 c.M. long, stramineous, naked. Fronds linear- 

 lanceolate, to 25 c.M. long, 12 m.M. broad, narrowed gradually towards the 

 base, the margin entire, reflexed (towards the base?). Texture coriaceous, 

 thick, the margin thinner; surfaces naked, upper bright-green, lower paler, 

 costa prominent beneath ; veins immersed, subdistinct, 1 — 2 X forked or subpin- 

 nate. Sori at the base of the anterior veinlets, in 1 row on each side near the 

 costa, suboblong, confined to the upper part of the frond, subimmersed; 

 capsules setose. 



New Guinea. 



(17) P. Tittariifolluiu, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; P. minimum, Bk, 

 Journ. of Bot., XVII, 41. 



Fronds densely tufted, simple, sessile, ligulate, entire, obtuse, 1 — '^% 

 c.M. long, to 2^/2 m.M. broad, narrowed gradually from the middle to the 

 base. Texture subcoriacaous ; upper surface naked, lower slightly pubescent ; 

 veins simple, erecto-patent, reaching nearly to the margin. Sori round, 

 superficial, close, forming a single row close to the midrib, confined to the 

 upper ^2 — ^/s of the frond, in the finest fronds 8 — 12 in a row. 



Borneo. 



(18) P. Merrillii, Copeh, Polypod. Philipp., 119. 



Rhizome short, erect, the scales small, brown. Fronds minute, sessile 

 or narrowed into a short stipe, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, entire, to 2^2 c.M. 

 long, under 2 m.M. broad. Texture coriaceous; surfaces clothed with a pu- 

 bescence of short, straight, red-brown hairs mostly confined to the upper 



