﻿71. POLYPODIUM. § 1. EUPOIiYPODIUM. d. PINNATAE. 597 



especially on the upper edge. Texture coriaceous : surfaces naked ; veins hidden. 

 Sori round, superficial, filling up nearly the whole under surface of the pinnae. 

 New Guinea. 



* (63) P. minntain, Bl., Rac. Plor. Btz., 94; Bl., Flor. Jav., II, 

 188, tah. LXXXVII, D. 



Rhizome erect, the scales very small. Stipes tufted, 4 — 8 m.M. long, 

 clothed with fine, long, soft, whitish hairs. Fronds 3 — 8 c.M. long, 3 — 10 m.M. 

 broad, linear-lanceolate, narrowed towards both ends. Pinnae oblong, 72 — IV2 

 m.M. broad, to + 6 m.M. long, blunt, erecto-patent, slightly decurrent, hardly 

 crenate, the lower ones reduced. Texture Ihin-membranaceous, hyaline; sur- 

 faces and margin hairy; veins few, simple, short. Sori 1 — 5 to a pinna, al- 

 ternate, ± costal. 



Malaya. 



* (64a) P. serrato-dentatmu, ». A. ». JK., Bull. D6p. Agr. I. 

 N., i908, XVIII, 20. 



Rhizome short-creeping, the scales + linear-subulate, pale-brown. Stipes 

 approximate, 1 — 2 c.M. long, clothed with short, spreading hairs. Fronds 

 linear-lanceolate, + 10 — 15 c.M. long, 8 — 12 m.M, broad. Pinnae triangular, 

 erecto-patent, slightly confluent, 3 — 4 m.M. broad at the base, the apex acute, 

 the edge strongly recurved and conspicuously serrate-dentate with + 4 oblique 

 teeth on each side; higher and lower pinnae diminishing gradually in size. 

 Texture rigidly coriaceous; upper surface dark-coloured, lower paler, naked; 

 rachis black, hairy ; veins immersed, 1 to each tooth, forked at the base with 

 a short, anterior branch, the apex of the principal branch black like the costa 

 (when seen towards the light). Sori small, oblong when young, 1 to each 

 tooth, terminal on the short anterior veinlets, subcostal. 



? Java [True habitat unknown, Forbes, No. 244). 



(646) P. Merrilti, Copel., Philipp. Journ., I Suppl., 255. 



Rhizome short-creeping, stout, clothed with lanceolate, glanduloso-ciliate, 

 fulvo-ferrugineous scales. Stipes 1 — 2 c.M. long, clothed like the whole plant 

 with short, scattered, hyaline, subglandulous hairs. Fronds 10—17 c.M. long, 

 + 1 c.M. broad, hardly narrowed at the apex. Segments oblong, often obtuse, 

 decurrent-confluent at the base, the edges obtusely toothed with 1 — 3 teeth 

 on each side. Texture firm-herbaceous ; veins simple, inconspicuous. Sori 2 — 5 

 to a segment, round, superficial, costal, sometimes confluent, 



Mindoro. 



