60a. PHEGOPTERIS. S09 



§ 5. MENISCIUM. 



u Fronds simple. (40) Ph. Beccariana. 



s.a. Fronds pinnate with i — 2 pinnae on each side. ^ (41) Ph. triphylla. 



i.a.a. Fronds pinnate with 3 or more pinnae on each side. 



h. Fornds- 10 — 25 cm. long, or the pinnae truncate at the base. 



c. Pinnae + 5 — 20-jugate, the barren ones to 4 cm. or more long. 

 ^ ' (42) Ph. Hosei. 



C.C. Pinnae + SO—30-jugate, the barren ones i — ^^'/j c.M. long. 



(45) Ph. stenophylla. 



h.h. Fronds 30 — i20 c.M. long. Pinnae cuneate or rounded at the base.' 



•{•. Pinnae narrowed very gradually at the base, with the areolae in 



3 — 5 rows on each side of the costa. (44) Ph. salicifolia. 



•{>.•{•. Pinnae not narrowed very gradually at the base, with - the areolae 



in 6 — 20 rows on each side of the costa. (45) Ph. cuspidata. 



(40) Ph. Beccariana, v. A. «. jr. ,• Menisdum Beccarianum, Ces., 

 'el. Becc. Polin., 5 & 8; Dryopteris Cesatiana, C. Chr , Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome creeping, slender, naked, blackish. Stipes angular, dark-brown, 

 trong, slender, 7 — 15 cM. long. Fronds simple, lanceolate, + 30 c.M. long, 

 fc 5 c.M. broad, the apex broadly, nearly suddenly acuminate, the margin 

 indulate and obscurely crenate, the base gradually narrowed. Texture sub- 

 oriaceous; costa and veins beneath covered with adpressed hairs. 



New Guinea; Fiji. 



* (41) Ph. triphylla, Jttett., Christ, Parnkr. d. Erde, 269, fig. 

 150; Menisdum triphyllum, Sw., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 66; Bedd., Ferns S.I., 

 ab. LVI ; Dryopteris triphylla, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Nephrodium triphyllum. Diets, 

 1 Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., P, 177. 



Rhizome* creeping, densely clothed with short, spreading hairs and less 

 ensely with narrow, lanceolate, ciliate scales. Stipes 1 — 5 c.M. apart, slen- 

 er, substramineous, slightly pubescent, those of the barren fronds 6 — 15 c.M. 

 mg, those of the fertile 20—40 c.M. long. Fronds with an oblong-lanceolate 

 erminal pinna 10 — 15 c.M. long, 272—4 c.M. broad, the point slightly acumi- 

 ate, the edge entire or repand, the base cuneate or rounded; below this 



(*) See also Ph. slmpUcUolla, v. A. v. R,, proUfera, Christ, stegno- 

 mme. Mett. & MerrllUl, v. A. v. R. 



ramme, Mett. & MerrllUl, v. A. v. R. 



