﻿6d2 72. CTCLOPHORUS. § 2. NIPHOPSIS. 



tate,. with a fuscous centre, the point long, linear, acuminate, pale-brown 

 (not white), spreading. Stipes firm, erect, ^'/j — 10 c.M. long. Fronds linear- 

 lanceolate, 30 — 60 c.M. long, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, the soriferous upper part li- 

 near, contracted, the base narrowed. Texture coriaceous; upper surface nak- 

 ed or slightly tomentose when young, lower densely coated with dirty-white 

 or greyish-ferrugineous tomentum ; veins hidden. Sori large, oblong, placed 

 in 1 row on each side of the midrib, confined to the narrowed upper '/s — 

 */j of the frond, confluent. 

 Philippines. 



* (25) C abbrCYiatui*, C. (Jhr., Ind. Pil. ; Polypodium abbreviafum, 

 Melt., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 98; Niphobolus abbrevialus, ZolL, Gies., Niph., 

 160; N. Lingua, Spr., p. p. (*) 



Rhizome wide-creeping; scales peltate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, brown, 

 the margin pale, ciliate, the ciliae fine, crisped, deciduous. Stipes 14 — 20 

 c M. long, densely covered with adpressed stellate hairs. Fronds dimor- 

 phous. Barren fronds roundish or ovate, 7 — 10 c.M. long, 3 — 7 c.M. broad, 

 the apex blunt or rounded, the base suddenly narrowed into a short, decur- 

 rent wing. Texture coriaceous; upper surface covered with scattered, fuga- 

 cious, adpressed stellate hairs and often also with white cretaceous dots; 

 under side densely tomentose, the tomentum adpressed; costa and main veins 

 conspicuous; areolae irregular, with few free veinlets. Fertile fronds more 

 elongate, + '/sX as broad as long, narrowed gradually to the stipe and tlie 

 blunlish apex. Sori densely crowded, at length confluent, occupying the up- 

 per ^'3 of the frond. — The scales at the bases of the stipes are pale, blunt, 

 deciduously ciliate, rather large. 



Java, Sumatra. 



(26) C "Warblirsii, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Niphobolus Warburgii, Gies., 

 Niph., 165; N. Lingua, Spr., p. p. (*) 



Rhizome wide-creeping, branched; scales peltate and rounded or emargi- 

 nate at the base, the point long-acuminate, the margin long-ciliate. Stipes 

 1 — 4 c.M. long, 1 — 5 c.M. apart. Sterile fronds commonly 5 — 8 c.M. long 

 and 2—5 c.M. broad, oblong, the apex acuminate, the base subcuneate; fer- 

 tile fronds longer and broader, on longer stipes. Texture coriaceous; upper 

 surface naked ; under side covered with adpressed, whitish or brownish to- 



(*) See Gies, Niph., 157—168. 



