﻿742 86a. leptochilus. % 1. poectlopteris. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales, short, lanceolate. Stipes of barren fronds 

 15 — 50 c.M. or more long, naked or slightly scaly. Barren fmnds 30—70 

 c.M. long, 20 — 30 c.M. hroad, sometimes elongated, with about 10— 20 pinnae 

 on each side; lower pinnae 10 — 15 c.M. long, 2 — 3 c.M. broad, short-stalk- 

 ed, the edge cut into entire, crenate or serrate, blunt lobes reaching to '/s 

 of the way down, sometimes with a seta in the sinuses. Texture herbaceous; 

 rachis and both surfaces naked, or the rachis scaly; main veins distinct; 

 areolae copious, without free veinlets. Pinnae of fertile fronds 5 — 10 c.M. 

 long, 5 — 7 m.M. broad, stalked, entire or more or less deeply repand. 



Var. ^iioya.niis: Barren pinnae lobed ^-vf&y down or more to 

 the costa, the lobes toothed. 



Trap. Asia, Australia, Polynesia, Seychelles; — var. Quoyanus: Philippines, 

 Moluccas, New Guinea. 



(16/)) Ij. Mauinaniii, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Heleronevron Naumanni, 

 Kuhn, Forschr. Gaz., IV, Fame, 5, tab. I; Gymnopieris Naumanni, Diels, Schum. 

 k Laut., Flor. deut. Sch.geb., 117. 



Hbizome creeping, elongate, clothed like the base of the stipes with lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, ferrugineous scales. Fronds distichous, pinnate, pinnatifid 

 towards the often proliferous apex. Stipes of barren fronds 18 — 24 c.M. 

 long, stramineous, deeply sulcate, sparingly scaly. Fronds 25 — 47 c.M. long, 

 14 — 22 c.M. broad, oblong, acuminate. Lower pinnae stalked, 9 — 13 c.M. 

 long, ± 2 c.M. broad, lanceolate-acuminate, subpinnatifid, the apex sharply 

 serrate, the base cuneate ; higher pinnae sessile, highest confluent. Lobes 

 oblong, toothed, the lower anterior teeth produced. Texture subchartaceous; 

 surfaces naked ; colour greenish-opaque ; costulae prominent ; areolae distinct, 

 lax, appendiculate. Fertile fronds 50 — 55 c.M. long, 18 — 20 c.M. broad, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, on stipes to ± 42 c.M. long; lower segments 

 subpetiolate, higher ones sessile, the longest 10 — 15 c.M. long, + 1 c.M. 

 broad, lobato-pinnatifid, acuminate; lobes ovate or elongate, entire; areolae in 

 1 row on each side of the costulae. 



New Guinea; New Hannover. 



(17) li. Xolliu^'eri, Fee, Gen., 55; Acroslichum subrcpaiulum, Ilk., 

 Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 419; Gymnopteris subrepanda, J. Sm., (]opel., Polypod. IMii- 

 lipp., 43 ; Poecilopleris subrepanda, Pr., Bedd., Fei-ns Br.L, II, lab. CCCXXXIX ; 



Acroslichum Zolliiigeri, Kze, (oldest name). 



Rhizome woody, wide-creeping. Stipes of barren fronds stout, erect, 



