216 22. DRYOPTERIS. § 2. NEPHRODIUM. 



terminal one. Pinnae sessile or short-stalked, more or less close or the lar 

 est ones distant, the barren ones the largest, 1 72 — S c.M. broad, the api 

 acute or short-acuminate, the marerin entire or sliffhtly lobed, the base : 

 truncate,\Tior' rarely + auricled above; fertile pmnae generally considerab 

 contracted, but sometimes the larger uncontracted pinnae soriferous. Textu 

 papyraceo-herbaceous ; surfaces + short-hairy, the under one glandular wi 

 numerous, dot-like, yellowish glands; veins to 12 pairs in the larger pinna 

 4 — 8 in the narrower ones, nearly all anastomosing exfcept the highest one 

 Sori medial on the veins, eventually elongating, meeting, and covering tl 

 whole of the veins so as to become meniscioid; indusium fugacious, ciliat 

 Malaya. 



* (82) ». cyatheoides, O.Ktise, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodiu. 

 cyatheoides, Pr. (not Klf.), Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 293; Hk., Spec. Fil., IV, ta 

 CCXLI, A; Aspidium cyatheoides, Klf., Enum. Fil., 234. 



Rhizome erect or suberect. Stipes 30 — 60 c.M. long, strong, nake 

 glossy, greyish. Fronds 60 — 90 c.M. long, 50—60 c.M. broad. Pinnae : 

 close, spreading or ± oblique, 2 — 4 c.M. broad, the apex acuminate, tl 

 edge irregular, furnished with acute, forward pointing teeth or lohes to 

 depth 2—5 m.M., the lowest pinnae not shorter than the next, Textui 

 papyraceous, herbaceous or subcoriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces nakei 

 main veins pinnate with 10 — 12 veins on a side: Sori contiguous, close 

 the main veinSj the lower ones close to the costae. 



Sumatra, New Guinea ; Hawaii. 



*/D. lirophylla, C. C*r., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium urophyllum, Kex 

 (not Bedd), Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 184; N. linealum, Bedd., Perns Br.I., I. ta 

 CXXXIII; Aspidium urophyllum, Christ (not Bedd.), Farnkr. d. Erde, 24f 

 Poly podium urophyllum. Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 314; — var. Pinwilb 

 Bedd., Handb. lad. Ferns, Suppl., 72. See Supplement 1. 1 



Rhizome short-creeping or erect, clothed with small, ovate-lanceola 

 scales at the extremity. Stipes approximate, 20—60 c.M. long, n;iked 

 short-hairy, stout, erect. Fronds + 45 — 120 c.M. long, 25— 4S c.M. bros 

 with a terminal pinna and below this 2 — 7 lateral ones on each side. Pinn 

 2 — 5 c.M. broad or broader, sessile or short-stalked, the base truncate 

 narrowed, the edge entire, crenate, serrate or sharply toothed, the apex acun 

 nate. Texture thinly coriaceous; rachis and both surfaces naked or nearly! 

 surfaces verruculose; veins conspicuous, + 8 — 14 on each side of the ma 



