﻿86a LEPTOCHILUS § 3. LOMAGRAMMA. 747 



truncate, rounded or broadly cuneate, the upper base not rarely broader than 

 the lower, the edge serrate or toothed, but more prominently, towards the 

 apex, the apex acuminate. Texture thinly membranaceous, transparent, pel- 

 lucid-dotted; rachis and costae + scaly beneath, the former more or less 

 winged, especially towards the apex; veins reticulate; areolae without free 

 veinlets. Fertile pinnae ± 6 m.3I. broad, normally soriferous throughout be- 

 neath, sometimes partially contracted and soi'iferous. 



Var. |iteroicles: Sori confined to the margin of the fertile pinnae. 



Var. Siilicoriacea : Texture subcoriaceous, reddish when dry; 

 veins very conspicuous beneath. 



Malaya; Assam, Polynesia; — var. ptcroides : Celebes, Philippines; — var. 

 subcoriacea: Mindanao. 



(26) li. perakcnsis, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Acroslicfnnn Blmheanum, 

 Hk., Rac, Flor. Biz., I, 55, p. p.; Loimgramme perakensis, Bcdd., Handh. Ind. 

 Ferns, Suppl., 107. 



Like L. lomarioides, BL, but the texture subcoriaceous, the pinnae entire 

 or obscurely crenate, the veins less conspicuous, the rachis not winged. Fer- 

 tile pinnae 1 — 4 m.M. broad. 



Java, Malacca. 



S66. E»L^^TYT^^EINT^\., Kuhn. 



Like Leptochilus, hut the paraphyses with a large terminal cell and the 

 spores globoso-tetrahedral. 



Fronds pinnate, with the vegetative characters uf Taenitis by the appea- 

 rance of Leptochilus. 



Malayan and Polynesian. 



I*. Reqiiiniana, KwUn, Copel., Polypod. Vhi\ip\>, 111 ; Acroslichum 

 Requinianum, Gaud., Hk., Spec. Fil., V, 269; Freyc , Voy. Ur. Phys., Bot., 

 304, tab. IV. 



Rhizome short, hairy. Stipes approximate, 20—30 c.M. long. Barren 

 fronds ternate or pinnate. Pinnae linear-lanceolate, 12 — 18 c.M. long, + 

 3 — 4 c.M. broad, narrowed gradually towards the apex, the base narrowed. 

 Venation + as in Acrostichum aureum, L. Fertile fronds pinnate; pinnae 



