71. POLYPODIUM. ^' 1. EUPOLTPODIUM. d. PINNATAfi. BUB 



Rhizome short. Fronds densely tufted, + 10 c.M. long, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate. Pinnae erecto-patent, ± 1 c.M. long, 3 — 6 m.M. apart, lanceolate, 

 slightly crenate, the base narrowed and more or less decurrent, the apex blunt ; 

 upper and lower pinnae reduced. Texture very firm; surfaces naked, dark- 

 coloured; veins hidden. Sori on the broadest part of the pinnae, 3 — 6 to a 

 pinna, immersed, confluent. 



Celebes. 



« (87) P. baratbrophyllum, BU., Journ. of Bot., XXIX, 107. 



Rhizome erect. Stipes tufted, very short. Fronds lanceolate, to + 30 c.M. 

 long, 1^1 ^ — 2 c.M. broad, narrowed gradually towards both ends, cut down 

 to a narrow wing into entire, linear-oblong segments ± 2 m.M. broad above 

 the dilated base. Texture thick, flexible ; surfaces naked or the margin ciliate ; 

 veins hidden. Sori medial, semiglobose, 6 — 8 in a row on each side of the 

 costae, sunk in distinct, round cavities, which do not look as papillae on the 

 upper surface of the frond. 



Borneo. 



(88a) P. blechnoides, flk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 331 ; P. contigmm, 

 Brack., Expl. Exp., XVI, tab. II, fig. 1; Grammiiis bleclmoides, Grev., (oldest 

 name). 



Rhizome stout, the scales dense, linear. Stipes 5 — 8 c.M. long, rigid, erect, 

 naked. Fronds 20 — 30 c.M. long, ^'/j — 4 c.M. broad, cut down very nearly 

 to the rachis throughout. Fertile pinnae confined to the upper half of the frond, 

 longer and narrower than the barren ones, which are bluntish, + 3 — 372 

 m.M. broad, growing gradually shorter and broader downwards. Texture co- 

 riaceous; rachis and both surfaces naked. Sori oblong, immersed, in rows 

 near the midribs. 



Java, Borneo, New Guinea; Queensland, Polynesia. 



(886) P- multicaudatnni, Copet., Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl., 160, 

 tab. XIX; P. obliqmtum, Copel. (not BL), Polypod. Philipp., 122. 



Rhizome short-creeping, clothed with rather long, ciliate, fnscous scales. 

 Stipes approximate, to 10 c.M. long, sparingly clothed with reddish-black hairs. 

 Fronds 30 — 60 c.M. long, often more than 6 c.M. broad, the rachis naked. 

 Pinnae erecto-patent, narrowed gradually from the rather suddenly dilated base 

 towards the caudiform apex, the margin entire ; lower pinnae reduced. Texture 

 subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked; veins simple, oblique. Sori often restricted to 



