60a. phegopteris. § 1. euphegopteris. 493 



Wong, + 15 on each side, acuminate, distant, the lower short-stalked, hardly 

 arrowed at the hase, the lowest + 7 c.M appart, hardly produced on the 

 )wer side, with the lowest anterior pinnulae shorter. Pinnulae ± 15 on 

 ach side, approximate, ± 4 c.M. long, + 1% c.M. broad, regularly piuna- 

 ifid nearly to the costa. Tertiary segments in ± 10 pairs, rhomboidal-oblong, 

 htuse, subdecurrent at the base, ± 6 m.M. long, + 5 m.M. broad, regular- 

 ( toothed with + 5 subacute teeth on each side. Texture flaccido-herbaceous ; 

 urfaces pubescent with numerous whitish hairs ; colour bright-green ; costulae 

 innate, veins forked ( ? *). Sori numerous, + 3 on each side of the 

 ostulae. 

 Luzon. 



* (10) Ph. rufescenii, J»e«., Christ, Parnkr. d. Erde, 276; Poly- 

 odium rufescens, BL, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 309; Bl., Plor. Jav., II, tab. XCI; 

 ledd., Perns S.I., tab. CCXXXVI; Dryopteris rufescens, C. Chr., Ind. Pil.; 

 lephrodium rufescens, Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Pam., I*, 11^ ; Aspidium 

 ufescens, BL, (oldest name). 



Rhizome creeping, commonly slender, scaly. Stipes 20 — 45 c.M. long, 

 rect, naked, stramineous (conf. Blume's drawing). Pronds 30 — 45 c.M. long, 

 5 — 30 c.M. broad, subdeltoid. Lowest pinnae largest, erecto-patent, 7 — 10 

 .M. broad, deltoid. Lowest pinnulae lanceolate, stalked, bluntly lobed, deeply 

 innatifid or pinnate at the base, those on the lower side the longest, the 

 entral ones sessile, decurrent, the highest confluent. Ultimate divisions twice 

 s long as broad or longer, crenate, toothed or lobed. Texture herbaceous to 

 ubcoriaceous ; rachis and under surface slightly pubescent or tomentose; 

 eins pinnate in the lobes. Sori copious, medial on the veins. 



Java; Ceylon, Queensland, New Caledonia. 



(11) Pb. loxoscapboides, «. A. «. Vt,.; Polypodium loxoscaphoides, 

 'A., Journ. of Bot., XXVIII, 107 ; Dryopteris loxoscaphoides, C. Chr., Ind? Pil. 



Stipes short, slender, naked, castaneous. Pronds deltoid-oblong, decom- 

 ound, + 30 c.M. long. Lower pinnae the largest, lanceolate-oblong, subequi- 

 iteral, 10 — 15 c.M. long. Ultimate segments + 2 m.M. long, cuneate with 

 veins, or oblong with a single vein. Texture moderately firm; surfaces 

 aked. Sori solitary and dorsal on the veins, medial in the ultimate 

 jgments. 



New Guinea. 



(*) Clirist wj'itos: nervis pinnatis, furcaiis. 



