496 60a PHEGOPTERIS. § 1. EDPHEGOPTElUS. 



e rec l o - patent , l a west largest , '^'^--'iiO c . M . l ong . — Pinnulao cloco) 10 — IB ojtf. 

 long. Ultimate divisions numerous, sessile, adnate to the rachi§,^^HIe apex 

 blunt, the edge crenate, or pinnatifid and crenate. TfixWfe herbaceous; 

 rachis and under surface hairy^or fibrillose on,J^e^stae and veins. Sori 

 copious, placed near or in the ultimate„^int3^s, + covered by the partially 

 recurved margin as in HypolepiS;,,.- — 



War. rugulos^-^-'fronds firmer; rachis densely viscid; edges recur- 

 ved + as in CJi/Ml3mhes. 



Nepufigpanlropical, extending to Japan, New Zealand and the West ^ 

 Smt Africa n lela n de ; n ot from contmmtal Afrioa. 



« (18) Ph. Kerandreniaiia, Mann, Pr. Amer. Ac, YII, 218; 

 Poly podium Keraudrenianum, Gaud., Hk. Bk., Syn Fil., 313; Freyc, Voy. Ur. 

 Phys., Bot., tab. VII; Dryopteris Keraudreniana, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Nephrodium 

 Keraudrenianum, Diels; in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, 177. 



Stipes 100 — 200 c.M. long, stramineous or brownish, polished. Fronds 

 3G0 — 450 c.M. long, subscandeut. Pinnae distant, the lower ones 30 — 90 

 c.M. long, 15 — 40 c.M. broad. Pinnulae lauceolale, + spreading, pinnatifid 

 '/j-way down or nearly or quite to the costa into lanceolate-deltoid or oblong, 

 ± spreading, bluntish, entire, crenate or incised segments. Texture herba- 

 ceous, rachises stramineous; both surfaces naked or the under side hairy; 

 veinlets pellucid. Sori submarginal. 



Java, Celebes; Hawaii. 



* (19) Ph. subconnexa, ChrUt, Warb., Mons., I, 83 ; Dryopteris 

 subconnexa, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Stipes strong, + 50 c.M. long, clothed like the rachis with long, greyish- 

 brown hairs. Fronds ± 45—50 c.M. long, broad, deltoid. Pinnae very dis- 

 tant, 6—8 on each side, to ± 25 c.M. long, petiolate. Pinnulae deltoid-ovate, 

 the lowest the longest, the higher ones pinnatifid, the lower pinnate at the 

 base. Tertiary divisions + 4 m.M. broad, the higher ones entire, ovate, shorty 

 acuminate, the lower coarsely toothed. Texture herbaceous; veins conspicuous, 

 forked. Sori medial, numerous, not close, mixed with white paraphyses. 

 — The whole plant pilose. 



Batjan. 



« (20) Ph. distant, Mett., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 274; Polypo- 

 dium distans, Don, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 96; P. paludosum, BL, Flor. Jav., II, 



