﻿71. POLYPODIUM. § 6. PLEOPELTIS. C*"*^. PHYMATOPSIS. 669 



Rhizome woody, creeping, the scales dense, spreading, filiform-subulate, 

 fine, brown, to 15 m.M. long. Stipes 10 — 50 c.M. long, firm, erect, naked, 

 glossy. Fronds sometimes simple, commonly pinnate, to 50 — 60 c.M. long, 

 15 — 40 cM. broad, with several (to 17) + distant, linear-lanceolate, 

 sessile or stalked, erecto-patent pinnae on each side, which are 10 — 25 c.M. 

 long, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, the apex much acuminate, the edges entire or slight- 

 ly repand towards the point, the base narrowed. Texture coriaceous; upper 

 surface covered with small, white, cretaceous dot^ all over or only near the 

 edge; veins usually indistinct. Sori in a single row on each side between 

 the midrib and edge. 



Var. varians: Pinnae narrower; main veins distinct. 



Malaya. 



(218) P. Moseleyi «fe., Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., XV, 110. 



Stipes 15 — 25 c.M. long, stramineous, naked. Fronds quadrangular or 

 rhomboidal, simply pinnate, 20—40 c.M. long, '20 — 30 c.M. broad. Pinnae 

 4— 6-jugate, linear, acuminate, all dilatato-adnate at the base, erecto-patent 

 or subpatulous, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, the terminal one like the rest but often 

 larger, the margin horny, irregularly repand. Texture subcoriaceous ; surfa- 

 ces naked; costae and main veins glossy and stramineous; areolae immersed, 

 rather large; free veinlets copious, knobbed. Sori round, slightly immersed, 

 in 1 row on each side nearer the margin than the costa. 



Moluccas, New Guinea. 



« (219a) P. palmatiini, ni., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 114; Bl., Flor. 

 Jav., II, 150, tab. LXIV; P. crenulalum, Kze, Mett., Farng., I, Polypod., 110; 

 Pleopelds palmata, Moore, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 568; Ferns Br.l., II, tab. 

 CLVI; — var. angustatum; P. angustatum, BL, Mett., 1. c, 108; Bl., 1. c, 

 148, tab., LXII; — var. obtusum. 



Rhizome stout, creeping; scales dense, conspicuous, linear-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, thin, pale-brown, the base broad, rounded, peltate, the point acute 

 the edge obscurely toothed or ciliale. Stipes distant, 7 — 30 c.M. long, erect 

 naked, glossy. Fronds 15 — 45 c.M. long, 15 — 30 c.M. broad or broader, 

 pinnate. Terminal pinna linear or linear-oblong, entire or slightly repand 

 crenate or toothed; lateral pinnae similar, 1 — 10 on each side, erecto-patent 

 10 — 25 c.M. long, '/^ — 4 c.M. broad, lanceolate, acuminate or caudate, narrow- 

 eid to the base and then dilated again, broadly adnale to the rachis; lower 

 pinnae not rarely ± stalked, and the barren ones often the broadest. Tex- 



