Vl. POLYPOBIUM. ^' 1. EnPOLYPODIUM. C. COMPOSITAE. 611 



e.c. Rackis hairy. 



d. Pinnae irregularly divided. (103) P. millefolium, 



d.d. Pinnae regularly pirmatisect. 



e. Sori occupying the base of the secondary segments. 



(106) P. tenuisectum. 



e.e. Sori not occupying the base of the secondary segments. 



f. Fertile pinnulae linear. (107a) P. taxodioides. 



f.f. Fertile pinnulae spathulate. (1076) P. Yoderi. 



ft (lOa) P . sodoanum, Mao ,, Flor. Bt B i, I, 06. 



Rhizome erect or suberect, slender. Stipes tufted, 1 — 2 c.M^^J»iI^den- 

 sely clothed with spreading, yellow-brown hairs. Frondsjitfear-lanceolate, 

 narrowed towards both ends, to 12 — 18 c.M. long,^,-<i3c.M. broad. Pinnae 

 5 m.M. apart, decurrent, unequal-sided, suMiatf^te, deeply pinnatifid, the 

 upper side with 5 — 6, the lower wjjtfrM^ — 3 segments, the lower base 

 cut away and without segments^_,,^8^ments linear, rounded, entire, separated 

 by narrow spaces hetwegp'ilfiem, 3 — 4 m.M. long, 1 — Vj^ m.M. broad. Tex- 

 ture very thin, hjaHfie; rachis, veins and edges furnished with very soft, 

 white, spre^iiiilg hairs ; veins free, 1 to each segment. Sori solitary at the 

 base oM^ ultimate segments. 



Java . 



(103) P. tamarisclnum, Klf., Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., 538; Dials, in 

 Engl. & Prantl., Nat. Pfl.Pam., I*, fig. 162, H— K; Adenophorus Tamarisci, 

 Hk. ^ Grev., Ic. Pil., tab. CLXXV; A. bipinnatus, Gaud., Hk. & Grev., 1. c, 

 tab. CLXXIV. 



Rhizome stout, creeping, scaly. Stipes 5 — 8 c.M. long, naked, wiry, 

 flexuose. Pronds 10 — 20 c.M. long, 372 — 8 c.M. broad, ovate-lanceolate. Pin- 

 nae close, erecto-pfitent, */j — 1 c.M. broad, cut down to the rachis into simple 

 or forked, linear or oblong lobes. Texture subcoriaceous; surfaces glandular; 

 veins 1 to each lobe. Sori copious, 1 to each ultimate segment, near the apex. 



Malaya; Polynesia. 



(104) P. bipinnatifiduin, Sh., Journ. of Bot., XXVIII, 109. 

 Stipes very slender, 5'/i — 5 c.M. long, clothed with fine, spreading, brown 



hairs. Pronds lanceolate-oblong, 12 — 15 c.M. long, ± 272 c.M. broad, pen- 

 dulous, 2-pinnatifid. Pinnae distant, linear, cut down to a narrowly winged 



