60a. PHEGOPTERIS. § 1. EUPHEGOPTERIS. 489 



s. Stipe and rachis long-hairy. 



(19) Ph. subcounexa. 

 s.s. Stipe and rachis naked or short-pubescent. 



^ ,.(20) Ph. distans. 



S.S. Fronds broader, + 90 c.M. broad. (21) Ph. Kiiigii. 



(1) Ph. appendienlata, «. a. v. b,.} Polypodium ap 

 Wall, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 506 ; ( ? Dryopteris cana, 0. Ktze., C. Chr., Ind. Pil.). 



Stipes tufted, + 50 c.M. long, deciduously vlllose. Fronds 45 — 60 c.M. 

 ong, 20—25 c.M. broad, ovate-lanceolate. Pinnae 7 — 15 c.M. long, 2 — S'/j 

 !.M. broad, narrowed from the base to an acuminate point, cut down nearly 

 the costa into linear-oblong, falcate lobes ; lower pinnae with a small gland 

 it the base, slightly reduced. Texture herbaceous; rachis and under surface 

 illose; veins 8 — 12 on a side. Sori close to the costulae. 



Penang; East. Himalaya. 



(2a) Ph. quadriaui'ita, v. A. v. a.} Dryopteris quadriaurita, Christ, 

 'hilipp. Journ., II, 209. 



Rhizome probably oblique, the apex crowned with rigid, castaneous, opa- 

 [ue, subulate scales nearly 1 c.M. long. Stipes few or solitary, + 53 c.M. 

 ong, naked, grey-stramineous, terete. Fronds + 35 c.M. long, + 24 c.M. 

 iroad, deltoid-oblong, hardly narrowed towards the base. Pinnae ± 15 on 

 ach side below the pinna lifid apex, sessile, lower opposite, lowest deflexed 

 ir decurved, acuminate, + 12 c.M. long, + 272 c-M. broad, cut down to the 

 osta into subdistant, horizontal segments. Secondary segments linear, acute, en- 

 ire, with acute sinuses between them, + 1 '/2 c.M. long, + 3 m.M. broad, lower 

 ree, falcate, lowest produced, petiolulate, incised, adpressed to (overlapping?) 

 he rachis, stipule-like. Texture coriaceous, rigid; colour bright-gi'een ; costae 

 ery short-hairy; veins simple, ± 8 — 10 on each side, oblique. Sori minute, 

 aedial, impressed. — Fronds with the appearance of Pteris quadriaurita, Retz. 



* (26) Ph. erubescent, jr. Sm., Christ, Parkr. d. Erde., 272; 

 ^olypodium erubescens, Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 506; Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, 

 lb. CCXIII; Dryopteris erubescens, C. Chr., Ini. Fil.; Nephrodium erubescens, Diets, 

 1 Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, 171; — var. amboinensis, Hk. Bk., 1. c. 



Stipes 50—75 c.M, long, tufted, angular, ± reddish like the rachis.. Fronds 



