804 60a. PHEGOPTERIS. § 3. goniopteris. 



nate, the edge lobed below the acuminate apex, the lobes very irregular, 

 short or to 2 — 3 c.M. long, lanceolate, obtuse, + 2*/i m.M. broad. Apex 

 of the frond often broad, much elongate, lobate. Texture herbaceous; colour 

 pale-grey-green; the whole plant often naked. Fertile pinnae hardly con- 

 tracted, often soriferous towards the apex only. Sori minute, numerous, 

 irregular, rarely seriate, often elongate. 



War . acroBtiehoide s : — Barren fronds more or lass like thgse 



of the type, but the fertile fronds very long-stalked with thenJBiKtgmuch 

 contracted. ^^^^-^""^ 



Snbirar. rhombea: Fronds + 7,-<dlir long, with the tei-minal 

 pinna elongate and lobate, acumi^tfi.-'lllateral pinnae ± 5 on each side, 

 lanceolate-rhomboidal to lingps^'gi^petiolate, truncate at the base, obtuse, cre- 

 nulate, 4 — 8 m^^^JurrsS^ Sori approximate, seriate or confluent. 



Sij|»vtfi*r laneeola: Barren pinnae lanceolate, nearly entfre, the 

 a fSfobtuse or s uba c ute; termina l p i nn a m uch el o ngate, nearly caudale 



PMijpptwes. 



(54) Pb. Ipennigera, r. A. r. JK.; Polypodium pennigerum, Forsl., 

 Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 317; Dryopleris pennigera, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodium 

 pennigerum, Pr. (not Hk.), Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam. I*, 179. 



Stipes tufted, IS— 30 c.M. long, slightly scaly. Fronds 45 — 60 c.M. long, 

 20—30 c.M. broad. Pinnae 2— a'/j c.M. broad, cut + Vj-way down into 

 blunt, falcate, slightly crenate lobes about 5 m.M. broad; lower pinnae gradu- 

 ally reduced. Testure firm-herbaceous; rachis and both surfaces naked; veins 

 6 — 8 on a side. Sori in rows near the costae. 



Philippines, New Guinea; Polynesia, New Zealand. 



♦ (3Sa) Pb. prolifera, JHwhn, Christ, Farnkr. d Erde, 270, fig. 

 851; Ph. luxurians. Melt., Farng., IV, Phegop. & Aspid., No. 51; Polypodium 

 prolifemm, Rb. (not Pr.), Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 315; Meniscium proliferum, Sw., 

 Hk., 2"'* Cent, of Ferns, lab. XV; Dryopleris prolifera, C.Chr., Ind. Fil.; 

 Nephrodium pfoliferum. Keys., Copel., Polypod. VMi^])., ^8 ; Hemionitis prolifera, 

 Retz, (oldest name). 



Rhizome stout, creeping. Stipes scattered or approximate, naked, 5—20 

 c.M. long. Fronds 30—120 c.M. long or longer, + 15—30 c.M. broad, erect 

 or decumbent, often elongated and proliferous at the point and from the axils 

 of the pinnae. Pinnae short-stalked, 1 — 4 c.M. broad, the base broadest, trun- 

 cate or cordate, sometimes auricled, the edge coarsely crenate or bluntly lobed 



