﻿79. STENOCHLAENA. § 1. LOMARIOPSIS. 721 



Rhizome high-climbing, thick, woody, often angled by the decurrent bases 

 of the stipes, clothed with lanceolate-subulate, often ciliale, brownish scales. 

 Stipes firm, slightly scaly, 10 — 30 c.M. long. Fronds 30—100 c.M. long, 

 20 — 60 c.M. broad, pinnate, the rachis often narrowly winged towards the 

 apex. Pinnae distant, articulate, + 6 — 50 on each side, sublanceolate, 2 — 5 

 c.M. broad, acute, acuminate or subcaudate, entire, crenate, serrate or den- 

 tate, the base + cuneately narrowed. Texture firm; surfaces naked; colour 

 blackish-green when dry; veins parallel, distinct quite to the margin, simple 

 or forked. Fertile fronds with the pinnae smaller and narrower, + 5 — 9 

 m.M. broad. 



"War. jSfieetabiliS) : Fertile pinnae as long as the barren ones, linear, 

 2 — 5 m.M. broad. 



Panlropical; — var. spectabilis: Malaya. 



(6) S. §iiibti*ifoliata, Copel., Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl., 152. 



Rhizome scandent, angular, densely clothed with rather long, lanceolate 

 or ovate, fuscous scales. Stipes 10 — 20 c.M. long, firm, densely scaly at the 

 base, subglabrescent towards the frond. Fronds of the fully developed plants 

 pinnate, 45 — 70 c.M. long, ovate. Pinnae articulate to the rachis, the lower 

 stalked, + 25 c.M. long, 2V2 — 3 c.M. broad, acute or caudate, the edge en- 

 tire, carlilagineous; higher pinnae sessile, often oblique. Texture coriaceous; 

 surfaces naked. Fertile pinnae + 1 c.M. broad. 



Mindanao. ■ 



Indefinite species. 



• (7) ? S. dubia, r. A. v. n., Bull. D(5p. Agr. I. N., 1908, XVIII, 26. 



Rhizome scandent, woody, stout, densely scaly like the base of the stipes, 

 blackish-brown, the older parts rough and rather naked. Stipes + 35 

 c.M. long, dark-purple-brown, densely scaly at the base, densely tomentose 

 in front like the rachises, provided with 2 rows of elliptical, flattened, de- 

 pressed, paler coloured glands resembling scars of fallen pinnae, the scales 

 long, linear- subulate, brown, leaving the stipes asperous when they fall, the 

 tomentum dark-reddish-brown. Fronds 2-pinnate, the rachis dark-purple-brown. 

 Pinnae erecto-patent, not articulate to the rachis. Pinnulae numerous, rather 

 spreading, articulate to the secondary rachises, ovate-oblong, acuminate, ± 

 5 c.M. long, + '/a <^-*I- broad near te base, the base rounded or broadly 



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