﻿718 78. ELAPH06L0SSUM. § 2. EU-ELAPHOGLOSSDM. 



densely so, the scales peltate, copiously ciliate to fimbriate, partially smaller 

 and decoloured, partially larger and cinnamon-coloured; costa prominent, ru- 

 fous, rather sparingly scaly; veins hidden, horizontal. Fertile fronds linear, 

 to + 35 c.M. long, ± 1 c.M. broad; upper surface densely scaly, lower 

 densely soriferous. 

 Mindanao. 



TO. STErVOCTTT .AElVAy J. Smith. 



Sori indefinite; sporangia densely crowded over the under surface of the 

 much contracted or narrowed, ± linear pinnae of the fertile fronds. 



Rhizome woody, high-scandent, often reaching the tops of the highest 

 trees. Fronds pinnate, dimorphous or polymorphous, whether or not articu- 

 late to the rhizome, the abnormal barren fronds, when present, variously and 

 often finely divided, the fertile fronds Lomaria-like; veins free, simple or 

 forked, those of the fertile pinnae sometimes slightly anastomosing, but always 

 united at the base by a more or less distinct or spurious, ± costal, trans- 

 versing vein, those of the barren pinnae sometimes so. Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 

 tab. VII, fig. 60, f— g; Diels, in Engl. & Pranll, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 133. (*) 



Pantropical. 



Arrangement of the sections. 



§1. LOMARIOPSIS. Barren fronds uniform; abnormal fronds wanting. 



§2. TERATOPHYLLUM. Barren fronds dimorphous; abnormal fronds present. 



§ 1. LOiVIARIQPSIS. 



a. Barren pinnae not articulate to the rachis, cordate at the base. 



(1) S. laurifolia. 

 a.a. Barren pinnae articulate to the rachis. 



h. Barren pinnae unequal-sided at the base; upper base rather truncate, 

 lower + cuneate. (2) S. arthropteroides. 



(*) The fertile pinnae have the edges not rarely recurved, + modified and indusium* 

 like, and then it is rather difficult to distinguish the species from Lomaria, except when the 

 rhizome is shown. 



