﻿690 72. CYCLOPHORUS. § 2. WIPHOPSlS. 



p./3. Sori small or minule. 



y. Rhizome wide-creeping; fronds distant, solitary. 



(31) C. argyrolepis. 

 7.7. Rhizome short-creeping; fronds not solitary, aggregate or 

 approximate. 



^. Stellate hairs without a spine-like central branch; 

 leaf-tissue with palisade cells ('). 

 e. Fronds stalked; stipes to 30 c.M. long, sub- 

 terete or laterally compressed, not angled, groov- 

 ed in front. (32) C. sligmosus. 

 s.s. Fronds sessile or stalkek; stipes not subterele, 

 angled, not grooved, flattened in front. 



(33) C. Beddomeanus. 

 ^.^. Stellate hairs with a very long, erect, spine-like 

 central branch; leaf-tissue without palisade cells. 



(34) C. splendens. 



« (22) C liauterbachii, C Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Niphoholus Laufer- 

 bachii, Christ, Schum. & Laut., Flor. deut. Sch.geb., 142; Gies., Niph., 221, 

 fig. 20. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, filiform, the scales subulate, peltate, pale-coloured, 

 thin, scattered. Fronds scattered, dimorphous. Barren fronds spatlmlate, 

 ovate or lanceolate, + I'/a — ^V2 ^M. long, + 5 m.M. broad, obtuse, entire, 

 on stipes 1 — 2 c.M. long. Texture rigidly coriaceous; under surface with the 

 stellate hairs small, adpressed, scarcely visible, greyish-green; veins inconspi- 

 cuous; areolae oblong. Fertile fronds linear-ligulate, 6 — 8 c.M. long, 2—3 

 m.M. broad, acute to caudate, sinuato-crenate, on stipes 1 — 2 c.M. long. Sori 

 submarginal, occupying the crenations, the stalks of the capsules immersed 

 in deep cavities. 



New Guinea. 



(23) C conf luens, C. CUr., Ind. Fil. ; Polypodium coitfluens, R. Br., 

 Warb., Mons., I, 61 (not Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 549); P. glabrum, Melt., Hk. Bk., 

 Syn. Fil., 556; Mett., Farng., I, Polypod., tab. Ill, fig. 6—8; Niphobolus con- 

 fliiens, Spr., Gies., Niph., 172. 



(*) See Gies., Niph., 78—79, fig. 15. 



