﻿71. POLTPODIUiyi. § 6. PLEOPELTIS. b*. LEPISORUS. 637 



coriaceous; surfaces naked; no distinct main veins; veins immersed; areolae 

 fine, with free veinlets. Sori large, in single rows not far from the midrih. 

 • Var. trifurcatum: Fronds 2 — 3-furcate, with acute lobes. 

 Luzon; North. India, South. China; — var. trifurcatum: New Guinea. 



• (152) P. lineare, Thb., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 354; P. ioriforme, Hk., 

 Gard. Ferns, tab. XIV; P. coftiguum, Wall., List, No. 285; Pleopeltis nuda, 

 HL, Bau. & Hk., Gen. Fil., tab. XVIII; PL Wightiana, Bedd., Ferns S.I., 

 tab. CLXXX; PL linearis, Moore, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 346. 



Rizome wide-creeping, woody, the scales lanceolate, dull-brown. Stipes 

 varying from + none to 5 c.M. long. Fronds 10 — 30 c.M. or more long, 

 1 — 5 c.M. broad, entire, narrowed gradually to both ends. Texture subco- 

 riaceous; sufaces nearly naked; areolae fine, with copious free veinlets. Sori 

 hardly immersed, large, + oblong, in 1 row on each side, medial or nearer 

 the midrib than the edge, distant, covered with copious peltate scales when 

 young. 



Malaya; Hawaii, Japan, China, North. India, Ceylon, South. Africa. 



* (153) P. ForbeiSii, r. A. ». is., Bull. D6p. Agr. I. N., d908, 

 XVIII, 23. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, firm, the scales dense, strongly adpressed, ovate 

 or oblong, rounded or acute at both ends, peltate, brown, with a blackish 

 centre. Stipes distant, 5 c.M. or more apart, 1 ^1^—^ V2 ^■^- long, erect, firm, 

 naked, not very slender (with regard to the rhizome). Fronds broadly lan- 

 ceolate, 10 — 12 c.M. long, 2^/2 — 4 c.M. broad below the middle, narrowed 

 gradually to an acuminate apex and base. Texture coriaceous, not thick; 

 surfaces naked; veins fine, irregularly anastomosing; areolae with free vein- 

 lets, Sori moderately large, distant, in 2 rows on each side of the midrib, 

 the outer row medial between the midrib and edge, the apex and base of 

 the fronds destitute of sori. 



Sumatra (Forbes, No. 2333). 



(154) P. induratnm, BU., Ann. of Bot., V, 475. 



Rhizome slender, wide-creeping. Stipes wiry, naked, 7 — 10 c.M. long. 

 Fronds simple, linear, 20 — 25 c.M. long, 1 — I'/j c.M. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed gradually to both ends. Texture rigidly coriaceous; surfaces naked ; 

 veins quite hidden. Sori semiglobose, superficial, forming a single lax row 



