490 60a. PHEGOPTERIS. § 1. EUPHEGOPTEMS. 



30 — 120 c.M. long, 15 — 60 c.N. broad, ovate-acuiuinate, pinnate. Lower pinnae 

 not abbreviated, 1—^4 c.M. broad, approximate, sessile, the sides parallel for a 

 long way, the apex gradually acuminate, serrate, the eige deeply pinnatifid 

 nearly to the cosla into close, blunt or acute, subfalcate, entire or obscurely 

 serrale segments. Texture rigid, subcoriaceous; rachis, costae (and veins some- 

 times) beneath sparingly covered with needle-like hairs; veins close, simple, 

 free, soriferous at the very base, the higher ones without sori. Sori in 1 row 

 on each side of the costulae, close to tho lattopi wmwi/ 



War. amboinensis: Lower pinnae on stalks 2^/^ c.M. long, conspi- 

 cuously narrowed at the base. Sori not close to the costulae. 



Malaya; North. India, South. China; — var. amboinensis: Amboyna. 



« (5) Ph. S mithii. - v. A. v. n.. Dull. Ddp. Agr. L N., iOOS, XVHfe 



15; Dryopleris Smilhii, v. A. v. R., I.e. 



Stipe and rachis naked, stramineous. Fronds ± 30 — 35 c^M.^ng, 6 — 8 

 c.M. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, the apex pinnatifid. ¥m:^er+ 30 on each 

 side, spreading, the higher ones sessile with a broa^,.*s^e, the central ones 

 largest, subsessile, the base broadly cuneate, the^e^ cut down nearly to the 

 costa into numerous, subspreading lobes ^le^ver pinnae gradually reduced to 

 mere auricles. Lobes oblong, blunt, tire lowest the largest, + S m.M. long, 

 + 1 m.M. broad, the edge eptrfe or slightly crenate, strongly recurved in 

 dried material. Texture swfecoriaceous ; upper surface hairy on the costae, 

 lower long-hairy on^lfie costae, costulae and veins; veins distinct, simple. 

 Sori round, dktarm, terminal on the veins, few, submarginal, covered by the 

 recurved e^gBof the lobes. - It bears the name of Mr. J. J. Smith, Assistant 

 Gurajpr^f the Buitenzorg Herbarium. 



Jam (Log...ii. .. ?, No. 4710) . 



(4) Ph. auriculata, J. Sm. (not Bedd.), Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 

 %l\\Polypodium aurimtalum. Wall., Hk. Bk., Syn. FiL, 506; Bedd., Ferns Br.L, 

 II, tab. CCIII; P. appendiculalum. Wall., var. s^uamaesftjoes, Clarke, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, Bot., 2"4 Series, I, tab. LXXIX, fig. 2; Dnjopteris squamaeslipes, C. Chr., 

 Ind, Fil.; Nephrodium auriculatum, Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., 

 I*, 171. 



Stipes stout, tufted, densely villose with deciduous, white hairs, furnished 

 below with numerous, ovate, black, shining scales. Fronds ample, 90 — 120 c.M. 

 long, 30 — 40 c.M. broad, lanceolate-oblong, pinnate, acuminate. Pinnae nume- 

 rous, + 27, c.M. broad, sessile, furnished at the base beneath with a pro- 



