﻿746 86a. LEPTOCHILOS. § 2. CHRYSODIUM. 



or rather long stipe. Texture papyraceous ; surfaces naked ; areolae copious, 

 with abundant free veinlets. Fertile fronds IS — 50 c.M. long, ^^j^—l^j^m.M. 

 broad, flexuose, on stipes ^Vj — 13 c M. long. 

 Trop. Asia. 



* (24) Wj. Raapii, ». A. ». n.. Bull, D6p Agr. I. N., 1908, XVIII, 

 27, tab. VIII. 



Rhizome erect, clothed with densely crowded, erect, linear-lanceolate 

 scales with a dark-brown longitudinal axis and a pale-brown margin. Stipes 

 densely tufted, 15 — 50 cM. long, naked, firm, erect, those of the fertile fronds 

 the longest. Fronds dimorphous. Barren fronds simple or some of them ter- 

 nate, the simple ones ovate-elongate, ± entire, 12 — 20 c.M. long, 5 — 4 c.M. 

 broad, broadest near the + rounded or broadly cuneate base, narrowed gra- 

 dually towards the short-acuminate point, the ternate ones with the segments 

 similar to the simple fronds, but smaller. Texture flaccido-coriaceous : surfa- 

 ces naked; veins prominent, reticulate as in Acrostichum aureum, L. Fertile 

 fronds (ernate, the segments stalked, linear, ± 4 — 6 cM. long, ± 5 m.M. 

 broad, acute. Sori occupying the whole under surface except the midribs and 

 edges. 



Batu Islands (Raap). 



§ 3. LOMAGRAMMA. 



^. Texlure membraitaceoKs. Pinnae serrate. (25) L. lomarioides. 



t.^. Texlure suhcotiaceous. Pinnae entire or obscurely crenate. 



(26) L. perakensis. 



* (25) Ei. lomarioides, JBl., Enum., 206; Acrostichum Blumeanum, 

 Hk., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 55, p. p.; A. lomarioides, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 179; 

 Lomagramme lomarioides, J. Sin., Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, Suppl., 106 ; Gym- 

 nopleris lomarioides, Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., 1^ Serie, I, 456; — var. pte- 

 roides; Lorn, pleroides, J. Sm., Journ. of Bot., Ill, 402; Bau. & Hk., Gen. Fil., 

 tab. XCVIII: — var. subcoriacea, Copel., Philipp. Journ., Ill, 52. 



Rhizome wide-scandent, the scales lanceolate. Stipes 15 — 50 c.M. long, 

 deciduously scaly. Barren fronds 50 — 100 c.M. long. Pinnae numerous, ses- 

 sile, articulate, rather falcate, 6—20 c.M. long, I'/j — ^Yi c.M. broad, the base 



