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 «4. E»ITOTI]VOF»TEI«,IS, <J. Smith. 



Sporangia crowded over the under surface of the much contracted, linear, 

 highest segments of the pinnatipartite or pinnate fronds. 



Rhizome creeping. Fronds articulate to the rhizome, deeply pinnatilid 

 or pinnate ; segments dimorphous, the barren ones lanceolate, articulate to 

 the rachis, free and stalked or adnate and joined; veins anastomosing copious- 

 ly; areolae with included free veinlets. Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 

 Pam., I*, fig. 170, D— F. 



Malayan. 



$. Fronds deeply pinnatifid in the lower, barren part. (1) Ph. drynarioides. 

 $.§. Fronds pinnate in the lower, barren part. (2) Ph. speciosa. 



* (1) I*h. drynarioides, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 442; Ferns 

 Br.I., II, tab. CCCXXV; Acrostichum drynarioides, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 425 ; 

 Polypodium drynarioides, Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 117; Dryostachyum dryna- 

 rioides, Kuhn, Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., IV, 296; C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Fronds subsessile, to 90 c.M. long, deeply pinnatifid below with nume- 

 rous close, entire, lanceolate, acuminate, sterile lobes. Lobes 10 — 20 c.M. long, 

 2^2 — 4'/2 c.M. broad, connected by a narrow wing, articulate though adnate 

 to the costa (rachis), the lower ones passing down gradually into a mere, 

 undulate wing to the costa, which is continued to its very base; above the 

 sterile lobes numerous distant, linear pinnae sometimes 50 c.M. long, + 272 

 m.M. broad. Texture very coriaceous; surfaces naked; main veins prominent, 

 with transverse veins; areolae copious, small, with free veinlets. 



Malaya; Salomon Islands. 



* (2) Phi. speeiosa, ni. (not /. Sm.), Copel, Polypod. Philipp., 

 134; Diels, in Engl. & Prantl., Nat. Pfi.Fam., I*, fig. 170, D— F; Ph. 

 rigida, Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCXI; Polypodium speciosum, Christ, 

 Farnkr. d. Erde, 121, fig. 346; Acrostichum rigidum, Wall., Rac, Flor. Btz., 

 I, 50; Lomaria speciosa, 5/., (oldest name); — var. simplex; Ph. simplex, J . Sm., 

 Journ. of Bot., Ill, 403. 



Rhizome woody, creeping, whitish, the scales brown, subulate, mixed 

 with hairs. Stipes short or long, naked, provided with 2 opposite rows of 



