600 71. POLYPODITM. § 1. EUPOLYPODniM. d. PfflRATAE. 



(71) P. breTifrons, Scort., MS.; P. repandu/um, Metl., var. malay 

 anum, Bedd., in Journ. of Bot., XXXI, 226. C C'.-.^. 1^ ,(- <A . ^•■f<^ <. 



Like P. repandulum, Metl., but the sori deeply sunk in cavities with 

 raised margins. 



Malacca. 



• (72) P. papillosum, BL, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 90; Bl., Flor. Jav. 

 II, 191, tab. LXXXIX, A— B: Hk., Icon. PI, X, tab. CMXLVI; Christ, Farnkr 

 d. Erde, fig. 254. 



Rhizome horizontally creeping, the scales lanceolate, acute. Stipes seal 

 tered, ± 5 — 20 c.M. long, erect, slender, rigid, naked. Fronds linear-Ianceo 

 late, 20 — 60 c.M. long, 4—8 c.M. broad, cut down to the rachis into nume 

 rous spfe»fflng pinnae. Pinnae linear, blunt, entire or crenate to toothed 

 4 — 8 m.M. broad, dilated at the base, the lowest not reduced. Texture papy 

 raceo-herbaceous, thin; rachis and both surfaces nak«d; veins conspicuous 

 forked. Sori in 1 row on each side near the edge, deeply immersed, mucl 

 prominent on the upper surface so as to form conspicuously elevated, conica 

 or saccate papillae. 



Malaya. 



• (73) P. obliqaatam, JW., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 93; Bl., Flor 

 Jav., II, 181, tab. LXXXV, B; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CLXVH. 



Rhizome short, the scales lanceolate, ciliate. Stipes tufted, 2'/i — 7'/. 

 c.M. long, rigid, naked or pilose. lYonds 20 — 70 c.M. long, ± 2'/i — 6 c.M 

 broad, linear-lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into entire or slightly wavy 

 close, subs proafling, bluntish pinnae 272 — 4 m.M. broad, dilated at the base 

 the lower ones growing shorter, reduced, deltoid, very blunt. Texture her 

 baceous to subcoriaceous ; rachis naked or hispid; surfaces naked; vein 

 simple. Sori elliptical, oblique, 4 — 6 on each side of the costae, immersed 

 somewhat prominent on the upper surface, the edges of the cavities distinctly 



^ raised and covering the sori when young. — Young plants sparingly cilia 



g ^Malaya; Ceylon, South India. 



a. 



J* (74) P . Schonltii^ M m n ' ^ Joupuj of Linni S oo , Bot. XVI, 31 



<D (? P. obliqnatHm) Bl , ) , 



«2 Rhizome thick, horizontal, densely clothed with slender, brown scales 



Stipes clustered, 5 — 8 c.M. long, brown, pubescent, firm, erect. Fronds 1 5— 3( 

 c.M. long, a'/i— 5 c.M. broad, oblong, pinnate, narrowing gradually to botl 



