﻿71. POLTPODIUM. § 6. PLEOPELTIS. C^. PHYMATODES. 663 



• (204) I». iiisigne, iff., Rac, Plor., Btz., I, 113; Bl., Flor. Jav., II, 

 166, tab. LXXIV; P. Iridaclylon, Mell., (not Wall.), Farng., I, Polypod., 104, 

 tab. I, fig. 39 — 40; PleopeUis insignis, Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCXIV; 

 Drynaria decurrens, Brack., Expl. Exp., XVI, 48. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales narrow, lanceolate-linear, spreading. Stipes 

 scattered or approximate, erect, naked, ± 2 — 5 c.M. long below the wing. 

 Fronds 15 — 30 c.M. long, 10 — 20 c.M. broad, with an entire, lanceolate-acu- 

 minate terminal lobe 5 — 10 c.M. long, 1 — 1 '^ c.M. broad or broader and 2— 6 

 or more similar ones on each side, which are connected by a costal wing 

 3 — 15 m.M. broad, ^the lowest lobes decurrent so as to form a narrow wing 

 to the stipe ± 15 — 50 c.M. long. Texture herbaceous, firm; surfaces naked; 

 veins fine ; areolae with free veinlets. Sori small, superficial, roundish or irre- 

 gularly oblong, often coofluent, scattered irregularly. 



Malacca, Java, Philippines. 



• (205) P. dilatatHm, Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil, 365; P. eury- 

 nhyllum, C.Chr., Iiid. Fil.; PleopeUis dilalaln, Bedd., Ferns Br.I, I, tab. CXXII. 



Rhizome woody, the scales ovate, large, brown. Stipes up to 30—40 

 c.M. long, with a narrow wing reaching down nearly to the base. Fronds 

 45—90 c.M. long, ± 50 c.M. or more broad, cut down within '/^ — 2'/2 c.M. 

 of the costa into 8 — 16 erecto-patent lobes on each side. Lobes ± 20 c.M. 

 long, 1 — 4 c.M. broad, entire, acuminate. Texture membranaceo-papyraceous ; 

 surfaces naked ; main veins fine, flexuose, not quite reaching the margin ; areolae 

 copious, fine, with free veinlets. Sori small, scattered irregularly, often confluent. 



Malaya; Ceylon, North. India, South. China, Samoa. 



• (206) P. incurvatum, Bl., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, HO; Bl., Flor. 

 Jav., II, 151, tab. LXV; PleopeUis incurvata, Moore, Bedd., Ferns Br.I., I, 

 tab. CXXIV. 



Rhizome creeping, woody; scales ovate-lanceoiate, the base roundish, pel- 

 tate, adpressed. Stipes distant, brown, + 25 c.M. long. Fronds dimorphous. 

 Barren fronds 15 — 25 c.M. each way, rarely simple, more generally hastato- 

 trifid or pinnatifid with 2 — 8 pairs of lateral lobes below the terminal one; 

 lobes approximate, ovate-deltoid or lanceolate-triangular, the edge entire, 

 thickened, the point acute. Texture firm, coriaceous; surfaces naked; main 

 veins distinct to the edge; veins hidden; areolae with free veinlets. Fertile 

 fronds cut down nearly or quite to the costa into erecto-patent, linear or 

 linear-lanceolale lobes, the lobes + 5 — 7 on each side, % — 1 c.M. broad. 



