﻿71. POLYPODIUM. § 1. EUPOLYPODIUM. d. PINNATAE. 601 



ends. Pinnae numerous, 1^2 — ^Va c-^^- long, 3'/2 — S m.M. broad, linear, 

 obtuse, entire, broadened and nearly confluent at the base, the lowest ones 

 small, triangular. Texture membranaceous; rachis pubescent; surfaces naked; 

 veins simple, free, falling short of the margin. Sori deeply immersed, oblong, 

 4 — 8 in a row on each side of the midribs, oblique, nearly covered by the 

 recurved margins of the depressions. 

 Philippines. 



* (75) P. decipienis, Mett., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 93; P. cryploso- 

 rum, C. Chr., lad. Pil. 



Rhizome short-creeping, densely clothed with lanceolate-subulate, ciliate, 

 black-brown scales. Stipes tufted, short or 1 — 2 c.M. long, densely furnished 

 with long, spreading, reddish hairs. Fronds linear-lanceolate, 10 — 40 c.M. 

 long, l'/^ — ^'/j c.M. broad, narrowed towards both ends, cut down nearly to 

 the cosla into linear or lanceolate, nearly close, entire, blunt lobes. Texture 

 coriaceous, rather fleshy ; surfaces thinly beset with red-brown hairs, the mid- 

 rib more densely; veins zigzag throughout or only at the base; veinlets trans- 

 lucent, 5 — 14-jugate, simple or the lower forked. Sori submarginal, deeply 

 immersed in elliptical cavities. 



Malaya. 



» (76a) P. mollicomuBn, Sfees 4' BL, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 91 ; Bl., 

 Flor. Jav., II, 184, tab. LXXXVI, B; — var. fuscatum; P. furcatum BL, I.e., 

 lab., LXXXVI, C; P. fuscatum, BL, l.c , 185; C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Bedd., Ferns 

 Br- I., II, tab. CCCXXIV. 



Rhizome ' erect or suberect, densely clothed with shining, adpressed, lan- 

 ceolate scales. Stipes tufted, 2 — 8 c.M. long, densely purveyed with soft, 

 spreading, reddish hairs. Fronds 7—30 c.M. long, l'/^ — 3 c.M. broad, cut 

 down nearly or quite to the rachis throughout into close, entire, blunt pinnae 

 1 — 4 m.M. broad, the base often dilated, the lower ones shorter and broader, 

 close. Texture more or less coriaceous; rachis and both surfaces hairy; veins 

 simple, obscure. Sori superficial, forming a close row on each side of the 

 midribs, at length often filling up nearly the whole under surface. 



War. fufSCatiiiu: Lower pinnae distant, narrowed towards the base, 

 the very base mostly much dilated again. 



Malaya. 



{16b) P. pjieudoarticnlatnin, Copel., Philipp. Journ., I, SuppL, 

 160, tab. XVIII. 



