60a. PHEGOPTERIS. § 1. EUPHEGOPTERIS. 49B 



mata, C. Chr., Ind. Fil; Nephrodium tenericaule, Hk., Spec. Fil, IV, 

 lb. CCLXIX (not page 142); N. ornatum, Christ (not BL), Copel., Polypod. 

 'hilipp., 26; Aspidium ornalum, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 130. 



Caudex erect, sometimes subarborescent. Stipes, main and lateral rachi- 

 BS clothed with linear-lanceolate scales and muricate or scabrous from their 

 ersistent bases, not pilose, viscous or .glaucous. Fronds large, to 6 M. long, 

 ^pinnate, the rachises narrowly winged. Pinnae generally 60 c.M. long or 

 jnger, + 30 c.M. broad. Pinnulae 2Vj — 5 c.M. broad, the rachis scabrous 

 nd scaly, and furnished with long, white, subulate hairs. Tertiary segments 

 lumerous, parallel, 6 —7 m.M. broad, linear-oblong from a sessile, square base, 

 onnected by a narrow wing, rather distant, the apex blunt or acute, the 

 dges deeply toothed or lobed. Texture thin-herbaceous; costae and often also 

 he veins hairy; veins simple or forked in the ultimate lobes. Sori near the 

 ostulae, 1 to each ultimate tooth or lobe, medial on the lowest anterior 

 einlet. 



Malaya; South. China, North. India, North. Australia, Polynesia. 



(16) Ph. asperula, ». a. ». H.; Polypodium asperulum, J. Sm., 

 Ik. Bk., Syn. Fil., 311; Dryopleris asperula, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium 

 sperulum, Copel., Polypod. Philipp.; 25. 



Stipes firm, terete, brownish, pubescent. Fronds 48 — 60 c.M. long, 30 

 ;.M. or more broad. Lower pinnae 15 — 25 c.M. long, 5—8 c.M. broad. Pin- 

 lulae lanceolate, ± 1 — I'/i c.M. broad, unequal-sided, cut down to the rachis 

 lelow into oblong, pinnatifid, unequal-sided divisions. Texture subcoriaceous ; 

 achis and both surfaces villose; veins immersed. Sori copious, 1 to each 

 iltimate lobe. 



Philippines. 



« (17) — Ph. pmictata, JUett . (not Bodd , ) , GhriEt, Farnkr. di Ei^, 



177; Polypodium punctatum, Thb., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil,, 312; Hypekj^j^'fmctata, 

 lett., Kubn, Fil. Afric, 120; Nephrodium punctatum, Z)te/j„4ifMigl. & Prantl, 

 ^at. Pfl.Fam., P, 177; Dryopteris punctata, C. C^:,<-fti3rFil.; — var. rugulosa ; 

 0. rugulosum, Lab., Hk., Spec. FQ., IV^^JW^TBedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CLXX; 

 y. rugulosa J. Sm., Bot. Mag^jJLXXliT Comp. 8 ; N. rugulosum, Copel., Poly- 

 (od. Philipp., 26. ^^^,-''^''''^ 



Rhizome fijjHf^ide-creeping, clothed with reddish hairs or fibrils. Stipes 

 icattergj3<'56— 60 c.M. long, + viscous, hairy or fibrillose, at length often 

 (rtEodT — Fronde 45 — 130 CiM. long, 5 — 4 pinnat e. Pinnao lancoolato or deltoid, 



