38. HYPOLEPIS. §35 



marginal, solitary at the lops of the sinuses of the ultimate segments, protected by 

 reflexed, membranaceous, roundish lobes, too small to cover them permanently. 



Rhizome whether or not creeping. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome. 

 Fronds variously divided, herbaceous, more or less hairy; veins free. Hk. Bk., 

 Syn. Fil., lab. 11, fig. 24; Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Pam., l\ fig. 147. 



Pantropical. 



Arrangement of the sections. 



§1. ASPIDOTIS. Rhizome not or hardly creeping; fronds aggre gate, i 

 §2. EUHYPOLEPIS. JRhizome distinctly creeping; fronds not aggregate. 



§ 2. EUHYPOLEPIS. 



#• — Fronds 12 3 - pinnate, under 50 c . M , /owy . (1) H. alpjgai 



§.§. Fronds at least 4-pinnalifid, more llnui "lO i Jf lunti 



>l<. Surfaces nnkrd nnijii h j'lw hinn on the midribs. (2) H. punctata. 

 ' >| i i i i |i i7 Surfacos sparingly fflandulota t fvheseenl . (a) H . tenuifolia » 



* (1) H. alpina, Hh., Rac, Flor. Biz., I, 149; Cheilanthes alpina, BL, 

 Enum., 138. 



Rhizome branched, densely clothed with reddisb-brovi^n, spreading, narrow 

 fibrils. Stipes 5 — 20 c.M. long, densely clothed with spreading hairs. Fronds 

 triangular-lanceolate, less than 50 c.M. long, IS — 30 c.M. broad, 2 — 3-pinnate. 

 Ultimate segments oblong, blunt, not close, B — 10 m.M. long, S'/j — 5 m.M. 

 broad at the base, adnate to the rachis, very slightly decurrent, often united 

 at the base by a narrow wing + '/a ™-^- broad, the edges crenate or 

 toothed. Texture herbaceous, but firm; rachises and surfaces hairy. Sori 

 1—8 to each segment.! — | Perhaps a reduced form of H. tenuifolia. 



Java. 



(2) H. punctata, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, Suppl., 19;(?Phegop- 

 teris punctata, Metl. ; Dryopteris punctata, C. Chr., -IndHFih). 



Rhizome large, wide-creeping. Fronds 120 — 360 c.M. long, 4-pinnatifid; 

 rachises strigose. Pinnae ± "60 c.M. long, more than 30 c.M. broad at the 



