492 60a. phegopteris. § 1. euphegopteris. 



ish apex, pinnate at the base, the higher ones ovate, sessile, the terminal one 

 pinnatifid. Lower segments incised, the other ones serrate, falcato-lanceolate, 

 hluntish or short-acuminate. Texlure pap yraceo-memhranaceous; surfaces naked; 

 veins black, conspicuous, the lovper pinnate, the highir forked. Sori minute, 

 medial, often submargiual, slightly prominent on the upper suiface, sometimes 

 with a depressed indusium. 

 Sumatra; Yunnan. 



(8) Ph. obscura. Fie, Bull. Herb. Boiss., VI, 196, tab. IV, fig. 5, 

 a — e; Polypodium obscurum, HL, Hk. Bk., Syn. FiL, 508; Dryopteris sagenioir 

 des, 0. Klse, var., C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; D. obscura, 0. Ktze, Rev. Gen. PI., II, 

 812; Nephrodium obscurum, Dieh; Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 25. 



Stipes tufted, blackish, polished, 18 — 50 c.M. long, sparingly scaly, the 

 scales dark-coloured, subulate, spreading. Fronds deltoid-oblong, acuminate, 

 + 18 — 45 cM. long, + 12 — 25 c.M. broad. Pinnae close, + opposite, in 

 several pairs below the pinnatifid apex, lowest largest, produced on the 

 lower side, deeply pinnatifid. Lobes 1 — I'/a ^.M. long, regularly, shallowly 

 and roundly lobed, the apex hluntish. Texture thinly papyraceo-herbaceous, 

 flaccid; surfaces (especially the margin and veins) covered with soft, hyaline, 

 purple or reddish hairs, not rarely glandular. Sori small, immersed, medial. 



Philippines ; Annam, 



(9a) Hh. hirta. Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., VI, 195; Polypodium hir- 

 tum, I'r., Ann. of Bot., V, 458 : Dryopteris setosa, C' Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephro- 

 dium hirlum, Copel., Polypod. Phillipp., 25. 



Fronds deltoid, decompound, + 30 c.M. long. Lower pinnae the largest, 

 deltoid, produced on the lower side, the central ones lanceolate-oblong. Ul- 

 timate segments oblong, entire, 2 — 272 m.M. broad. Texture moderately firm; 

 surfaces naked; rachises clothed with copious, adpressed, linear, brown scales; 

 veins paucijugate, erecto-patent. Sori medial. 



Philippines. 



(96) Ph. Copelaiidi, ». A. ». «.,• Dryopteris Copelandi, Christ, 

 Philipp. Journ., II, 216. 



Rhizome propably oblique. Stipes few, rufo-stramiueous, + 30 c.M. 

 long, clothed like the rachises with minute, setiform, strigillose, reddish-brown 

 paJeae besides rather large, ovate, obtuse, diaphanous, pale-brown scales. Fronds 

 deltoid oblong, + 40 c.M. long, + 50 c.M. broad, 5-pinnatisect. Pinnae ovate- 



