﻿71. POLYPODIUM. § 6. PLEOPELTIS. C*. PHFMATODES. 665 



very broad. Fertile fronds with + 4 pairs of lobes + 12 c.M. long, + 3 

 c.M. broad. Sori numerous, copious, scattered. 



Trop. and Subtrop. Asia, Africa ^ Australia, Pplynesia; — var. dimor- 

 phum: Celebes. 



(2086) P. |»haneroplilel>iuiii, CopeL, Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl, 

 165, tab. XXIV. 



Rhizome scandent, clothed with ovate or orbicular, peltate, entire, im- 

 bricate, persistent scales. Stipes naked, 40-80 c.M. long. Fronds + 1 V2 

 M. long, + 60 c.M. broad. Lobes + 35 c.M. long, ± i% c.M. broad, en- 

 tire, accuminate, connected at the base by a costal wing 1—1 V2 ^.M. broad. 

 Texture herbaceous or subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; venation as in P. 

 commutalum, Bk., the primary veins very conspicuous. Sori large, hardly 

 immersed, often in "2 rows on each side of the costulae, 1 in each primary 

 areola. 



Mindanao. 



(209) P. violaSCeiiiS, MeU., Ann. Mus. Bot. 1.. B., II, 227. 



Rhizome creeping, the sca:les rufo-ferrugineous, nearly glossy, lanceolate- 

 acuminate, hardly ciliate. Stipes 7 — 8 c.M. long. Fronds ± 15 c.M. long, 

 oblong, pinnatisect. Segments approximate, + 6 on each side, spreading, 

 lanceolate, acute, the margin callous, serrate; lower segments nearly free, 

 with the base narrowed, adnate, the higher ones adnate or decurrent. Texture 

 coriaceous; under surface pale-violescent ; costulae prominent; areolae im- 

 mersed. Sori in 1 row on each side of the higher costulae, deeply im- 

 mersed. 



Java. 



• (210) P: nigrescenis, BL, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 111; BL, Flor. Jav., 

 II, 161, tab. LXX; Hk., Fil. Exot., tab. XXII; Pleopeltis nigrescens, Carr., 

 Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 367; PL longissima, Bedd., Ferns S.I. tab. CLXXVI. 



Rhizome stout, creeping, the scales ovate, adpressed, thin, brown. Stipes 

 20—90 c.M. long, firm, erect, pale, glossy. Fronds 50—90 c.M. long, 20— 50 

 c.M. broad, cut within V2 — ^^2 c.M. of the costa into ± 2—10 linear, spread- 

 ing or erecto-patent, entire, acuminate to caudate lobes on each side to 30 

 c.M. long, 1 — 5 c.M. broad, the sinuses as broad or narrower. Texture thinly 

 coriaceous ; surfaces naked ; colour often blackish when dry ; main veins pro- 

 minent, (lexuose, forming 1 row of large costal areolae; areolae in and 



