508 60ffl. PHEGOPTERIS. § 4. STEGNOGRAMMA. 



War. subsimplicifolia : Smaller, distinguished from the preced- 

 ing by its distinct, elongated, nearly entire terminal and very slightly deve- 

 loped and auricle-like lateral pinnae. 



Java; — the varieties in the Philippines.] 



* (39a) Ph. jStegnogramnie, Mett., Christ, Farokr. d. Erde, 

 268, fig. 846; Gymnogramme aspidioides, Hk., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 70; Hk., 

 Icon. PI., X tab. CML.; G. Stegiiograwne, BL, Flor. Jav., U, tab. XLIV; Steg- 

 nogramma aspidioides, BL, Bedd., Ferns Br.I., I., tab. GXLIX; Dryopleris sleg- 

 nogramme, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodium Stegnogramme, Diels, in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Nat. PLFam., I*, 181. 



Rhizome erect, the scales dense, lanceolate. Stipes tufted, long, decidu- 

 ously hairy. Fronds 30 — 100 c.M. long, IB — 50 c.M. broad, simply pinnate, 

 the apex pinnatifid. Pinnae, lanceolate, often opposite, the lower ones sub- 

 sessile, often deflexed, acuminate, vpith the edge pinnatifid '/4 — Vs'^^iy dov?n 

 to the costa, the base truncate or broadly rounded ; higher pinnae sessile with 

 a broad base. Texture herbaceous; rachis and surfaces hairy, especially on 

 the veins; main veins pinnate; veins 5 — 10 on each side, the 3 — 6 lower 

 anastomosing, with an excurrent veinlet reaching to the sinus, all soriferous. 

 Sori linear-oblong, nearly the length of the veins, the lower sometimes pro- 

 duced along the excurrent veinlets as in Meniscium. — A form found in Ma- 

 lacca has the fertile fronds contracted. 



Java, Malacca; Ceylon, North India. 



(59fi) P h. Spencer i , » . . J r « j Dryaplent Spenceri, Climl, P b ilipj 



Journ., II, 206; Nephrodium Spenceri, Copel., MS. 



Rhizome elongate. Stipes 20 — 30 c.M. long, rufo-stramineju*^ Fronds 

 50 c.M. or more long, ±12 c.M. broad, oblong, pinnate, witn a large, eear- 

 Wy lobed terminal pinna + 12 c.M. long, + 3 '/j cJUfrnroad. Lateral pinnae 

 sessile, oblong, falcate, short-acuminate, ± cmMrfo-Iobate, to + 8 c.M. long, 

 + 2 c.M. broad, the base unequal-sided^.'tfuncate above, semicordate below, 

 overlapping the rachis; lower pmjMte dwindling down into mere, triangulai- 

 auricles (4—10 on each side},^'1^bes + S m.M. broad. Texture herbaceous; 

 colour bright-green; ^^^<rhole plant clothed with scattered, grey hairs; veins 

 distinct, ± & ojy^ch side of the main veins, 3 — 4 lower anastomosing, the 

 terminal p^iHcfwitb the veins more numerous and anastomosing more copiously. 

 Sori^jm^rous, 4 — 10 on each side near the main veins (costulae), often oblong. 



Mindanao. . 



