22. DftYOPTERIS. § 2. NEPHBODIUM. 209 



lobes. Texture papyraceous; surfaces villose throughout. Veins usually ± 6—8 

 on each side, of which + 4 — S unite with the opposite veins of adjacent lobes. 

 Sori small, medial on the veins; indusium hairy, often absent. 

 Philippines. 



* (64) D. lineaf a, C. Chf., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodium lineatum, Pr., Rac, 

 Plor. Btz., I, 186; N. glanduhsum, J. Sm., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 291, p. p.; 

 Aspidium lineatum, BL, Enum., 144. j — var. subacrostichoides, v. A. v. R. 



Rhizome creeping, bearing on regular distances groups of tufted or approxi- 

 mate fronds, the scales brown, narrow-lanceolate. Stipes IS — SO c.M. long, 

 those of the fertile fronds much elongated. Fronds + 25—45 c.M. long, 

 lanceolate. Pinnae in ± 12 — 14 pairs, the barren ones S^j — 7 c.M. long, 

 1 — 2 c.M. broad, sessile, opposite or alternate, sometimes very close and over- 

 lapping, lanceolate, acute, erecto-patent, the base truncate, auricled on the 

 upper side and sometimes on the lower side at the base, the margin entire 

 „,. - mana rvn -1- *» """♦■"iiIqi-Iv.. .towarfls^ t ho a pBx. thc lower pinnafi- 



* (65) D. pteroidos, O. Ktise, C. Chr., Ind. Fil; Nephrodium pfe- 

 roides, J. Sm., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 183; A', termimns, J. Sm., Bedd., Ferns S.I., 

 tab. XC; Aspidium pteroides, Sw., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 247. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales narrow, lanceolate. Stipes distant, strami- 

 neous or greyish, 30—60 c.M. long, scaly at the base. Fronds 50—120 c.M. 

 long, 20 — 40 c.M. broad, deltoid-oblong. Pinnae 6 to many on each side, spreading 

 or erecto-patent, the lowest largest, short-stalked, 1— 2Vj c.M. broad, acumi- 

 nate, the edges cut '/s— Vj-^^Y down. Lobes oblong or subdeltoid, straight 

 or subfalcate, to + 7 m.M. long, 4—5 m.M. broad. Texture + herbaceous; 

 tachis and both surfaces nearly naked except on the + villose costae and 

 veins; main veins pinnate in the lobes with 5-^12 veins on each side, the 

 ' 2—3 lower veins anastomosing. Sori submarginal, nearly confined to the lobes. 



Malaya; China, Burmah, Queensland, Polynesia. 



* (66) D. Otaria, O. Ktme, C, Chr., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodtun(dlarinM., 



Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 288; iV. aristalum. Ilk., Spec. Fil., IV, tab. GCXXXVIII; 



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