22S 22. DRYOPTERIS. § 2. NEPHJIODICH. 



to subtruncate, the edge cut '/j — '/j'^^Y ^ovm into blunt or subtruncate, 

 spreading or suberecto-patent lobes + S m.M; broad, subentire, or crenate 

 or toothed at the apex, lower pinnae ± naiTowed at the base; reduced 

 pinnae few^. distant. Texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; under surface naked or 

 nearly so, verruculose; rachis slightly villose ; main veins pinnate in the lobes; 

 veins 6 — 11 on each side, the 2 — s'lovyer ones anastomosing. Sori medial 

 or lower on the veins, to + 6 on a side. 



Malaya; Polynesia, Trop. Australia, Br. India, Madagascar, Mascarenes. 



* (113) O. bispidnla, O.Mtiee, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.t Nephrodium 

 hispidulum, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 293; JV. angustifolium, Pr., Hk., Spec. 

 Pil., IV, 69; Aspidium hispidulum, Dec, Nouv. Ann. Mus., Ill, 546. 



Rhizome ± erect. Stipes tufted, 13 — 45 c.M. long, villose at least on 

 the inner side. Fronds 20 — 45 c.M. long, 8 — 25 c.M. broad. Pinnae distant, 

 spreading, 5—15 c.M. long, 5 — 15 m.M. broad, the apex acuminate, the edge 

 cut + Va'^^y down into oblong, more or less bluntish, slightly falcate lobes, 

 the base obtuse, lower pinnae reduced to mere auricles. Rachis villose; 

 texture herbaceous to ^teaiicoriaceous ; under surface finely villose ; main 

 veins pinnate in the lobes; veins 5 — 4 on a side, the lowest pair anasto- 

 mosing. Sori nearly terminal or medial on the veins. — ■ A plant gatborod in 

 Dornoo by Dr. Niouwonbuio and dotorminod * h ^ ^ Bvt Chpiot (Ann^Btg^j^X, 

 107) has the pinnae erecto-patent, with the basecu|ifiater^SS''surfaces deci- 

 duously hispid especially on the^xostacr-TtScTedges, the lowest veins joining 

 at or a litAe^_Jit)\syw-(5e'tQ^s of the sinuses, the lobes strongly erect as in 



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Malaya; Samoa. ' * 



* (114) D. heterocarpa, O.Ktiee, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.;. Nephrodium 

 heterocarpon, Moore, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 187; Aspidium heterocarpon, BL, Christ, 

 Ann. Btz., XV, 133. 



Rhizome short-creeping or suberect, clothed with ovate-lanceolate, brown 

 scales. Stipes + tufted, 30 — 60 c.M. long, densely (deciduously ?) villose, the 

 base glossy and scaly. Fronds ovate-lanceolate, 30 — 90 c.M. long, 20 — 40 c.M. 

 broad. Pinnae linear-lanceolate, sessile, acuminate, more or less narrowed 

 towards the base, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, the edge cut '/i — '/4 down into linear- 

 oblong, subfalcate lobes to 4 m.M. broad, lower not-reduced pinnae deflexed; 

 below this several distant, abruptly dwarfed pinnae occupying the upper half 

 of the stipe, sometimes changed into glands. Texture herbaceous, firm, rachis 



