﻿696 72. CYCLOPHORUS. § 2. niphopsis. 



afterwards naked, not rarely purveyed with minute depressed dots, which are 

 covered with deciduous, white, dot-like cretaceous scales; under surface to- 

 mentose like the upper, but the hairs intermixed with short-branched ones, 

 the tomentum pale-brown, or white when young, forming a close coat. Sori 

 numerous, minute, immersed among the tomentum when young, occupying ± 

 the upper iialf of the frond, reaching to 1 — 3 m.M. or more from the mar- 

 gin, placed in irregular, contiguous rows. 

 Malaya; South. China, North. India. 



(."4) C splendeilfS, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Polypodium splendens, Hk., 

 Spec. Fil., V, S2 (not V, 95); P. nitens, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 553; Nipho- 

 bolus splendens, J. Sm., Gies., Niph., 99. 



Rhizome short-creeping, the scales narrowed from a sessile, truncate or 

 rounded, broad base into a subulate point. Fronds approximate, sessile or 

 subsessile, 45 — 90 c.M. long, 6 — 10 c.M. broad, broadest in the upper half, 

 narrowed very gradually from there to the base, the edge entire. Texture 

 subcoriaceous ; upper surface white-cobwebby, at length naked, often purveyed 

 with white, dot-like cretaceous scales ; under surface densely clothed with 

 long- and short-branched, brown stellate hairs, the short-branched ones pur- 

 veyed with a long, erect, spine-like central branch (Gies., Niph., fig. 8, E); 

 costa and main veins distinct. Sori small, numerous, close, immersed among 

 the tomentum, not reaching the margin. — Among the long- and the short- 

 branched hairs there are many intermediate forms with both short and long 

 branches, but without central spines. 



Philippines. 



TS. lyJEl^lSJ^'RIJ^, J. Smith., 



Sori round or punctiform, placed on the points of union of the anasto- 

 mosing veins. No indusium. 



Rhizome creeping or ascending. Fronds articulate to the rhizome, di- 

 morphous. Barren fronds (cup-leaves) rigid, mostly oakleaf-like, sessile, soon 

 becoming brown, commonly cordate at the base, collecting quantities of humus 

 into which the roots grow ; fertile fronds large, stalked, green, pinnalifid or 

 pinnate, I he segments mostly articulate; veins anastomosing copiously ; primary 

 areolae often quadrangular, secondary with free included veinlets spreading in 

 various directions. Diels, in Engl. & PrantI, Nat. Pll.Farm., I*, fig. 171, A. 



Trop. Asia, Australia, & Polynesia. 



