614 71. POLYPODICM. § 2. PROSAPTIA. 



3. Base of frond crmate or repand. Sori i8 — 25 on thelarges 

 lobes. (112o) P. cryptocarpum 



3.3. Base of frond sinuate. Sori ± 9 on the largest lobes. 



(1126) P. Toppingii 



(108a) I*. Schlechteri, «. A. ». Jt.y Prosaptia Schlechleri, Christ 

 Schum. & Laut., Plor. deut; Sch.geb., Suppl., 41, tab. I, fig. B, c; Davalli 

 Schlechleri, C. Chr., Ind. Pii. 



Rhizome short. Fronds sessile, tufted, numerous, + 25 c.M. long, J 

 */j C.M. hroad, linear-ligulate, acuminate, narrowed at the base, the edge re 

 tundato-crenate in the lower, sharply toothed towards the fertile highe 

 part. Texture coriaceous, rigid; surfaces naked, upper bright-green, lowe 

 ochraceous; costa immersed; veins oblique, hidden. Sori solitary on the teetl 

 oblong, the depressions saccate, ovate, not scariose, consisting of the partial! 

 reflexed margin of the lobes. 



New Guinea. 



* (1086) P. exaltatuin, Copel., MS. in Herb. Bog.; iJam/Ziaeajatofl 



Copel, Polypod. Philipp., 52; C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Acrosorus exaltatus, Copel 



Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl., 159, tab. XV. 



^ Rhizome short, ascending, the scales dense, linear, brown. Fronds sessih 



"I crowded, pendulous, 30—50 c.M. long, 5—9 m.M. broad, narrowed toward 



1 the base, the lower '/s part sterile, pinnatifid almost to the costa, the lowe 

 g segments reduced. Segments unequally triangular, oblique, the apex bluntisl 



02 Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked, the lower densely covered with irre 

 J gularly scattered, black or dark-brown dots; veins hidden. Sori soJitarj 



deeply immersed in terminal, saccate, indusium-like depressions, which forii 

 much prominent, laterally compressed projections on the upper surface. 

 Mindanao (Copeland, No. 1478). 



(108c) P. tortile, r. A. r. n.; Acrosorus Merrilli, Copel., Philipj 

 Journ., n, 136. 



Differs from P. exaltatum, Copel., in the fronds being smaller, with nai 

 rower sterile segments and more reduced and twisted fertile segments givin 

 the fertile apical part of the frond an appearance of distinctness wanting i: 

 P. exaltatum, Copel. 



Mindoro. 



