60a. PHEGOPTEBIS. § 1. EtItHEGOPTERIS. 497 



XC; Bedd., Perns S.I., tab. CLXVIII; Bryopleris hrumea, C. Chr.,lnd. Fil; 

 hrodium distans, Diels, Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 21. 



Rhizome creeping, scaly at the extremity. Stipes 48 — 60 c.M. long, slen- 

 , stramineous or brownish, naked or pubescent, the base sparingly clothed 

 1 lanceolate scales. Fronds deltoid or ovate, 45 — 100 c.M. long, 20 — 50 



broad. Lowest pinnae generally the longest, linear-lanceolate, 5^1 2— ^ c.M. 

 id, spreading or sometimes deflexed, cut down nearly or quite to the costa 



deeply pinnatiiid pinnulae. Pinnulae linear-lanceolate, */» — 1 c.M. broad, 

 1 cm. apart, the base broadly adnate, slightly decurrent, the lobes blunt 

 acute, entire or toothed. Texture herbaceous; rachis naked or villose, 

 mineous or brown ; surfaces more or less hairy on the veins ; veins pinnate 

 he lobes. Sori copious, + medial, in 1 row on each side of thecostules. 



Malaya; Formosa, Japan, South. China, North. India. 



•"(21) Ph. Kingi, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, Suppl., 84; Dryop- 

 i Kingii, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Fronds large, 3 — 4-pinnatifid. Pinnae + 4B c.M. long. Pinnulae ±10 

 , long, ± 3 — 4 C.M. broad, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into 

 ng or ovate-oblong, I'ather deeply lobed tertiary segihents ± 7 — 8 m.M. 

 id. Texture membranaceous, rather flaccid; surfaces naked except a few 

 k setae chiefly on the veins; veins forked. Sori medial, at the forks — 

 orm gathered in Java by Mr. Raap differs from Beddome's plant by the 

 iary segments being nearly 5 m.M. broad, with the veins forked or pin- 

 I in the ultimate lobes. 



Malacca, Java. 



§ 2. LEPTOGRAMMA. 



Pinnae pimnatifid ± ^j^-way down to the costa, the lowest not the longest. 



(22) Ph. totta. 

 .Pinnae pinnate, the lowest the longest. (23) Ph. opaca. 



Ph. totta, Jttetf., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 272; Gymnogramme 



a, Schl., Rac, Flor. Btz,, I, 68; G. Lowei, Hk. ^ Grev., Ic. Fil., tab. 



[XIX; Leptogramme Totta, J. Sm., Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 377; Grammifts 



1, Pr., Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. XLIX; Bau. & Hk., Gen. Fil, tab. LXXII, 



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