﻿71. POLYPODIUM. § 6. PLEOPELTIS. b*. LEPISORUS. 641 



Rhizome wide-creeping, slender, scaleless. Stipes 1 — 2 '/a c,M. long, slen- 

 der. Fronds 10 — IS c.M. long, + 5 m.M. broad, the apex scarcely acuminate, 

 the edge entire, the base gradually narrowed. Texture herbaceous; colour 

 dark-green; surfaces naked; no main veins; veins distinct; areolae in 2 — 5 

 irregular rows, without free veinlets. Sori distant, round or + oblong, in 1 

 regular or irregular row on each side nearer the midrib than the edge. 



Malacca. ^ 



(163) P. normale, non., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 358; Pleopellis nor- 

 malis, Moore, Bedd., Ferns Br.I., I, tab. X; — var. longifrons; Pol. longifrons, 

 Wall., List, No. 274; Hk. & Grev., Ic. Fil., tab. LXV. 



Rhizome woody, scandent, clothed with deciduous, fibrillose, ovate or 

 lanceolate, almost hair-pointed scales. Stipes approximate, SV^ — 8 c.M. long, 

 stramineous or reddish. Fronds linear-lanceolate, 30 — 60 c.M. long, S'/j — 5 

 c.M. broad, narrowed gradually towards both ends, the point acute, the edge 

 entire or slightly wavy. Texture membranaceous to slightly coriaceous; surfa- 

 ces naked, or a few scattered, closely adpressed scales present on the stipes 

 and near the base of the costa beneath; no main veins; areolae moderately 

 large, with free veinlets. Sori large, superficial, in 1 regular or more com- 

 monly 1 — 2 irregular, + wavy rows on each side of the midrib. — Near P. 

 lineare, Thb., but the capsules not intermixed with peltate scales. 



"Var. loDgifrons: Sori copious, scattered irregularly. 



Trop. Asia, China, Madagascar. 



♦ (164a) P. uiyriocarpum, Mett.,Ek. Bk., Syn. Fil., 558; Mett., 

 Farng., I, Polypod., tab. I, fig. 38; Phymatodes myriocarpa, Pr., Tent. Pterid., 

 tab. VIII, fig. 12. 



Rhizome firm, woody, the scales subadpressed, ovate or lanceolate, pel- 

 tate, blackish, the edge brownish, toothed, erose or slightly fimbriate. Stipes 

 distant, 1—5 c.M. long. Fronds lanceolate, 15—90 c.M. long, 2 '/a— 10 c.M. 

 broad, acuminate, entire, narrowed gradually to the base. Texture papyraceo- 

 herbaceous; surfaces naked or the under side pubescent; primary veins form- 

 ing a series of large, costal primary areolae, a second series of stout veins 

 forms smaller but still very conspicuous primary areolae outside the costal 

 ones, both including numerous finer ones resembling those between the second 

 series and the margin, with included free veinlets. Sori copious, scattered 

 irregularly, sometimes confluent. 



New Guinea, Amboyna, Borneo, Philippines; Cochin'China. 



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