﻿622 71. POLYPODIUM. § 3. GONIOPHLEBIUM. d. SCHELLOLEPIS. 



(120) V. lampongenise, ZoU., Syst. Verz., 37, 48. 



Fronds scattered, pinnate. Pinnae linear-lanceolate, the higher and fertile 

 ones narrower than the barren, subensiform, sessile, cordate, subauriculate at 

 the base. Rachis angular, sparingly paleaceo-villose ; veins slender, naked. Sori 

 in 3 rows on each side. 



Java. 



(121a) P. benguetense, Copeh, Philipp. Joum., I, SuppL, 256; 

 P. mengtzeense, Copel. (not Christ), 1. c, 161, tab. XXI. 



Rhizome creeping, densely clothed with lanceolate, acuminate, black-ful- 

 vous scales. Stipes + 15 c.M. long, often stramineous and glabrescent like 

 the rachis. Fronds 20—25 c.M. long, 12—20 c.M. broad. Pinnae + 1—2 

 c.M. apart, often opposite, sessile, the base subcordate or hastato-dilatate, the 

 edge acutely serrate, the apex acuminate; higher pinnae distinct, not decurrent, 

 nor broadly adnate. Texture membranaceous; surfaces naked; costae promi- 

 nent ; veins forming 1 row of costal areolae and sometimes also a second row 

 of smaller areolae outside the costal ones. Sori subimmersed. 



Luzon. 



* (1216) P. jsubauriculatuin, SL, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 116; BL, 

 Flor. Jav., II, 177, tab. LXXXIII; P. Reinwardtii, Kze, Linn., XXlll,^8o; Gonio- 

 phlebium Reinwardtii, de Vr., Ned. Kruidk. Arch., I, 237 ; G. subauriculatum, 

 Pr., Redd., Ferns Br.I, I, tab. LXXVIII; — var. serratifolium ; G. ^erraft/o/mw, 

 Brack., Expl. Exp., XVI, 35. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, pruinose, scaly, at length + naked, the scales 

 dark-brown, linear-lanceolate or subulate, entire or ciliato-dentate, finely acumi 

 nate, erecto-patent or spreading. Stipes scattered, firm, 15 — 30 c.M. long, 

 glossy, clothed like the rachis with densely crowded, + spreading or recur- 

 ved, brownish, deciduous, finely acuminate, ciliate scales, afterwards naked. 

 Fronds subpendulous, + 50 — 500 c.M. long, 8 — 30 c.M. broad, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, pinnate. Terminal pinna mostly pinnatifid at the base; lateral pin- 

 nae numerous, subspreading, linear-lanceolate, '/j — 2'/2 c.M. broad, articu- 

 late to the rachis, sessile, with + their own breadth between them, the 

 base cordate, ± truncate or rounded, often + auricled on one or both sides, 

 the edge entire, slightly crenate or faintly toothed, the apex narrowed + 

 gradually, acute or acuminate. Texture herbaceous to subcoriaceous ; sur- 

 faces naked, the lower covered with scattered, minute, roundish, irregu- 

 larly ciliate, deciduous, peltate scales when young; rachis at length naked; 



