﻿676 71. POLTPODIDM. § 7. SEIXIGUEA. 



P. caudiforme, BL, Mett., 1. c, 110; Bl., 1. c, 146, tab. LIV, fig. 2; Selliguea 

 caudiformis, J. Sm., Bedd., Handb. Ind. Perns, 590. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales lanceolate-linear, light-brown. Stipes 2^/2 — 40 

 c.M. long, firm, erect, naked, more or less glossy, pale or brown, those of the 

 fertile fronds the longest. Fronds subdimorphous, 5 — 25 c.M. long, 2 — 10 

 c.M. broad, ovate-oblong, the fertile oues commonly the longest and narrowest, 

 often much the narrowest, acute, entire, narrowed at the base. Texture 

 coriaceous; surfaces naked; main veins distinct; areolae hidden. Sori nol 

 immersed, linear, continuous, solitary between and parallel to the main veins, 

 not reaching either the midrib or the edge, distant or contiguous. 



"Var. vuScanlcMin : Stipes of the fertile fronds not always longer 

 than those of the barren ones. Fronds smaller, ± ovate, blunlish, uniform, 

 or the fertile ones narrower. Sori interrupted so as to form several parallel 

 rows of round, oblong or linear-oblong sori. 



Var. caiicllforiiae ; Fertile fronds much narrowed, long-acuminate, 

 subcaudate. Sori large, round, solitary between the main veins. 



Malaya, Polynesia. 



(2516) P. calopliletoiMiM, Copel., Philipp. Journ., II, 140, tah. 

 Ill, A. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, clothed with squarrose, broadly lanceolate, fulvo- 

 ferrugineous scales, which are peltate and castaneous at the base. Stipes erect, 

 naked, 5 — 10 c.M. long, those of the fertile fronds the longest. Barren fronds 

 ovate, + 14 c.M. long, + 5 c.M. broad, long-acuminate, the edge brown, 

 rigid, the base rounded (acute in Copeland's table). Texture coriaceous ; surfa- 

 ces naked; main veins stout, straight, reaching the margin, erecto-patent ; 

 veins bidden beneath, visible above. Fertile fronds contracted, linear, + 16 

 c.M. long, + 7 — U m.M. broad, broadest near the base, narrowed gradually 

 towards the apex, the base cuneate, the edge entire or crenulate fundulato- 

 crenate in Copeland's drawing) Sori 1—2 between the oblique main veins, 

 the pairs often confluent. 



Mindoro. 



* (252) P. heterocarpum, stett., Farng., I, Polypod., 110; 

 Gymnogrammc heierocarpa, Ilk. (not Bl.), Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 74; Grammihs 

 heterocarpa, BL, Enum., 118; Selliguea heierocarpa, Bl, Flor. Jav., II, 125, tab. 

 LII, fig. 1 ; — var. interruptum ; P. vulcmicwn, Christ (not Bl), Farnkr. d. 

 Erde, 108 ; — var. abbreviatum ; P. caudiforme, Christ (not Bl), 1. c. 



