﻿71. POLYPODIIJM. § 3. GONIOPHLEBIDM. d. SCHELLOLEPIS. 625 



areolae in 2 — 3 rows on each side. Sori in 1 row on each side, distinctly 

 immersed. 



\fav. serratifolium : Pinnae coarsely toothed. 



Malaya; Samoa, Trop. Australia, New Caledonia. 



$ 6. PLEOPELTIS. a. Myriuecophila. ^. Aspidopodium. 



1. Fronds simple or lohed. (122) P. sinuosum. 



±.±. Fronds deeply pinnatifid or pinnate. 



2. Rhizome forming a single, bulbous or wide-spreading crust. 

 3. Fronds pinnatifid at the base; sori subcostular. 



(123) P. lomarioides. 



3.3. Fronds pinnate at the base. Sori medial. (124) P. sarcopus. 



2.2. Rhizome forming a row of united, subconvex, oblong or roundish crusts. 



(12S) P. imbricatum. 



* (122) P. iiinuoiiUiii, Wall., Rac, Plor. Btz., I, 103; Hk., Spec. 

 Pil., V, tab. CCLXXXIV; Pleopeltis sinuosa, Bedd., Ferns Br.I., I, tab. VIII. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, thick, densely clothed with adpressed, peltate, 

 roundish scales, dark in the centre and pale round the edge. Stipes '/^ — 5 

 c.M. long, firm, naked, arising from large, prominent, conical protuberances. 

 Fronds dimorphous; barren fronds 7— 17V2 c.M. long, 2-2^2 c.M. broad, the 

 apex blunt or rounded, the edge entire, narrowed to the base, fertile ones + 

 20 — 40 c.M. long, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, narrowed to the base, the edge + sinua- 

 te. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; veins obscure. Sori large, immersed, 

 in 1 row on each side, nearer the edge than the midrib, 1 to each lobe. 



Malaya. 



* (123) P. lomarioides, Xxe, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 365; Mett., 

 Farng., I, Polypod., tab. II, fig. 18 — 19; Drynaria lomarioides, J. Sm., Journ. 

 of Bot., Ill, 397. 



Rhizome forming a thick, wide-spreading crust densely clothed with small 

 peltate scales, ferrugineous in the centre, with a broad, scariose border. 

 Stipes arising from conical protuberances, 5 — 10 c.M. long, firm, erect. 

 Fronds 15—48 c.M. long, 7 — 15 c.M. broad, the barren ones cut down 

 within 3 — 7 m.M. of the costa into close, horizontal, oblong, entire, blunt' 



