﻿86a. LEPTOCHILUS. § 1. POECILOPTERIS. 741 



rigid ; surfaces naked ; veins anastomosing as in Nephrodium ; main veins dis- 

 tinct to the edge; veins 3-jugate. Fertile fronds + 30 c.M. long, ± 372 

 c.M. broad, on longer stipes; pinnae sessile, remote, 4 — 5 m.M. broad. 

 Borneo. 



(14) Wj. celebicuis, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Acrostichum celebicum, Bk., 

 Kew Bull., i901, 145. 



Stipes densely tufted, slender, naked, 7 — 15 c.M. long or longer, those 

 of the fertile fronds the longest. Fronds oblong-lanceolate, the barren ones 

 12 — 15 c.M. long, 5 — 8 c.M. broad, pinnate. Pinnae sessile, lanceolate, 1 '/s — IV2 

 c.M. broad at the base, those of the fertile fronds narrower, slightly pinna- 

 lifid, the lobes obtuse, the base truncate, auricled on the upper side. Rachis 

 slender, pubescent; under surface obscurely pubescent; main veins pinnate ; 

 veins 3 — 4-jugate, anastomosing at the apex. 



Celebes. 



* (15) li. vii'ens, C. CUr., Ind. Fil.; Acrostichum vir ens. Wall., Hk. 

 Bk, Syn. Fil., 420, p. p.; Hk. & Grev., Ic. Fil., tab. CCXXI; Gymnopteris 

 virens. Keys., Pol. Cyath. Bung., 33; G. conlaminans, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 

 435 ; [Poecilopteris repanda, Bedd., Ferns S.I.. tab. CCII ; P. semicordata, Moore, 

 Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCLXX. 



Rhizome thick, short-creeping. Stipes scaly, 10 — 20 c.M. long. Fronds 

 30 — 60 c.M. long, pinnate; rachis ± scaly, more or less winged. Pinnae 

 11 — 30 on each side, sessile or short-stalked, lanceolate, to 8 c.M. long, to 

 !2'/2 c.M. broad, the point acute, the edge entire, crenate or more or less 

 deeply lobed or repand, with the lobes crenate or toothed; terminal pinna 

 often ± elongated and proliferous. Texture rather herbaceous; costae pz'omi- 

 nent; main veins distinct to + \ of the way to the margin; areolae broad, 

 irregular, in 3 — 4 rows, the costal ones without free veinlets, the others 

 generally with several free or irregularly joining included veinlets. Fertile 

 fronds with the pinnae much contracted. 



Malacca, Celebes, Philippines; Burmah, South. India, Ceylon. 



* (16a) Ei. cuispiclatus, C. Chv., Ind. Fil.; Acrostichum u 

 BL, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 55; Bl, Flor. Jav., II, 39, tab. XIV— XV; Gymnopteris 

 repanda, Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 50; Poecilopteris repanda, Pr., Epim., 172; 

 Nephrodium cuspidatum, Pr., (oldest name); — var. Quoyanus; A. Quoyanum, 

 Gaud., Freyc, Voy. Ur. Phys., Bot., 306, tab. III. 



