﻿638 71. POLTPODIDM. § 6. PLEOPELTIS. b*. LEPISORUS. 



on each side of the costa, with a few others forming an outer row at the 

 middle of the frond. 



New Guinea. 



* (155) P. stenopliyllum, bl, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 104; Bl. Flor. 

 Jav. II, 134, tab. LV, fig. 1, a — b; PleopeUis stenophylla, Moore, Bedd., Ferns 

 Br.I, II, tab. CCXXXIV. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, the scales dense, lanceolate-subulate, acuminate, 

 entire, brownish. Stipes Ya — ^ c.M. apart, 1 — 2^2 c.M. or more long, firm, 

 erect. Fronds 8—25 c.M. long, 5—13 c.M. broad, narrowed gradually to both 

 ends, the apex varying from acute to rounded, the edge entire. Texture 

 very coriaceous; surfaces naked; no distinct main veins; veins hidden; areolae 

 with few free veinlets. Sori deeply immersed, very prominent on the upper 

 surface, placed in 1 row on each side near the edge. — The form with the 

 bluntly rounded fronds is var. obtusum, Christ (Ann. Btz., XV, 153). 



Malaya; Fiji. 



* (156a) P. revolutum, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; P. longifolium, Mett., 

 Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 104; P. contiguum, Hk. (not Wall.), Fil. Exot., tab. XX; 

 Icon. PL, X, tab. CMLXXXVII; PleopeUis longifolia, Bedd., Ferns Br.I., I, tab. 

 VII; Grammitis longifolia, BL, Enum., 119; Drynaria revoluta, J. Sm., Journ. 

 of Bot., Ill, 421. 



Rhizome creeping, woody, the scales linear-lanceolate, brown or black, not 

 quite spreading. Stipes short, firm. Fronds 30 — 70 c.M. long, 1 — 4 c.M. 

 broad, ± ligulate, narrowed gradually to both ends, the apex blunt or blunt- 

 ish, the edge entire, often revolute. Texture coriaceous ; under surface naked or 

 slightly furfuraceous ; no main veins; areolae fine, hidden, with free veinlets. 

 Sori oblong, 2 — 5 X as long as broad, immersed, parallel to the edge, con- 

 fined to the upper %— ^j^ part of the frond, placed in a line nearly close to 

 the edge ; young capsules mixed with small peltate scales. — The young plants 

 have the texture thin, membranaceous to herbaceous, the veins conspicuous. 

 A form found in Celebes has the sori round, large. 



Malaya; New Caledonia. 



(1566) P. productum, Christ, Philipp. Journ., II, 178. 



Rhizome short-creeping, covered with small, scattered, setiform scales. 

 Stipes approximate, + 10 c.M. long, stramineous, naked. Fronds linear, ± 

 63 c.M. long, ± 1 — 1'/4 c.M. broad, the apex acutely long-acuminate, thg 



