﻿624 71. POLYPODIDM § 6. PLEOPELTIS. a*. ASPIDOPODIDM. 



lobes + 2 c.M. broad; the fertile ones cut nearly to the costa with more 

 numerous lobes 6—20 m.M. broad. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; 

 veins immersed, irregular; areolae fine, with free veinlets. Sori immersed, 

 round or oblong, forming 2 close rows near the central ribs of the lobes. 

 Malaya; Formosa. 



(124) P. SarCOpUS, de Vv.4- Teygm., Hk. Bk., Syn. PH., 514; 

 p. myrmecophiliim, Christ, Fil. Saras., I, 24; III, tab. Ill, fig. 21 — 24. 



Rhizome inflated, greyish, 6 — 10 c.M. thick (high), ±15 c.M. broad 

 (each way), the scales dense, small, roundish, peltate, black in the centre, 

 with a whitish border. Stipes 10 — 30 c.M. long, stramineous, thick, arising 

 from conical protuberances or with the base immersed in the rhizome. 

 Fronds + 40 c.M. long, with 30 — 35 pinnae on each side. Pinnae entire, 

 7 — 9 c.M. long, + 2^/2 c.M. broad, the point blunt; higher pinnae close, con- 

 nected, the lower ones free. Texture moderately coriaceous, rather succulent ; 

 veins fine, not very conspicuous; main veins 6 — 8 on a side, not quite 

 reaching the margin; areolae irregular, with few free veinlets. Sori in 1 

 row on each side of the costae, medial, very deeply immersed, forming 

 very prominent papillae on the upper surface of the pinnae, the mouth of 

 the pits surrounded by a distinctly raised border. 



Celebes; South. China. 



(125) V. imbricatum, Karst., Ann. Btz., XII, 168, tab. XV, fig. 

 29—30, tab. XIX; P. mirabile, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome climbing, consisting of several to numerous divisions separated 

 by distinct constrictions 4 — 8 c.M. broad, each internode roundish or oblong, 

 convex, 8—16 c.M. long, 7 — 13 c.M. broad, ± 8 m.M. thick in the centre, 

 concave beneath, + 2 m.M. thick at the margin, clothed with black, roundish, 

 peltate scales, which are scattered on the upper, but densely crowded on the 

 under side. Fronds 4 — 9 to each division, ranged in 2 approximate rows (1 

 row on each side of the longitudinal axis), 30 — 50 c.M. long, deeply pinnati- 

 fid in the fully developed plant, the stipes placed on conical protuberances. 

 Lobes more or less numerous, erecto-patent. Sori deeply immersed, prominent 

 on the upper surface, in 1 row on each side of the costulae. 



Moluccas. 



