71. POLYPODiUM. § 1. EuroLYPODiUM. a. integrifoliAe. ^"^9 



• {16a) p. faseiatum, jPf. (not Mett.), Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 88, 

 Grammitis fasciata, Bl., Flor. Jav., II, 117, tab. XLIX, fig. 1. 



Rhizome strong, horizontally creeping, clothed with broad, grey or ferru- 

 gineous scales. Stipes Vj — I'/a c.M. apart, a'/j — 10 c.M. long, rigid, naked, 

 slightly scaly at the base, dark-colored; Fronds to 30 — 4S c.M. long, 5 — 10 

 m.M. broad, linear, narrowed gradually towards both ends, the edge entire. 

 Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; midrib prominent, conspicuous; veins 

 immersed, once or rarely trice forked, with the branches reaching nearly to 

 the edge. Sori oblong (elliptical when young), close to the midrib. 



Malaya. 



(166) P. subfasiciatum, ntf.. Fed., Rep., Y, 41. 



Rhizome short-creeping, slender, clothed with pale-rufescent, narrow, lan- 

 ceolate, entire scales. Stipes — 2 c.M. long, stramineous, naked. Fronds linear- 

 lanceolate, to 23 c.M. long, 12 m.M. broad, narrowed gradually towards the 

 base, the margin entire, reflexed (towards the base?). Texture coriaceous, 

 thick, the margin thinner; surfaces naked, upper bright-green, lower paler, 

 costa prominent beneath ; veins inimersed, subdistinct, 1 — 2 X forked or subpin- 

 nate. Sori at the base of the anterior veinlets, in 1 row on each side near the 

 costa, suboblong, confined to the upper part of the frond, subimmersed; 

 capsules setose. 



iVetiU Guinea. 



(17) P. vittariifoliuin, C. Chf., Ind. Pil.; P. minimum, Bk, 

 Journ. of Bot., XVII, 41. 



Fronds densely tufted, simple, sessile, ligulate, entire, obtuse, 1 — 2*/2 

 c.M. long, to 2'/2 m.Mi broad, narrowed gradually from the middle to the 

 base. Texture subcoriacaous ; upper surface naked, lower slightly pubescent ; 

 veins simple, erecto-patent, reaching nearly to the margin. Sori round, 

 superficial, close, forming a single row close to the midrib,, confined to the 

 upper */j — */, of the- frond, in the finest fronds 8 — 12 in a row. 



Borneo. 



(18) P- Merrillii, Copeh, Polypod. Philipp., 119. 



Rhizome short, erect, the scales small, brown. Fronds minute, sessile 

 or narrowed into a short stipe, linear-oblanceolatej obtuse, entire, to a'/^ c.M. 

 long, I to 4: 3 m.M. broad. Texture coriaceous ; surfacesi clothed with a pu- 

 bescence of shprt, straight, red-brown hairs mostly confined to the upper 



