620 71. POLTPODIUM. § 3. GONIOPHLEBIUM. d. SCHELLOUEPIS. 



at length quite naked, the scales linear-acuminate, subulate, ciliate, recurv 

 or spreading. Fronds subpendulous, 45 — 120 c.M. long, 15—30 c.M. bros 

 Knnae numerous, subsessiie, articulate to the rachis, erecto-patent or spreadii 

 linear, to 20 c.M. long, 1 —4 c.M. broad, the edges mostly + parallel, enti 

 or crenato-dentate, the base obtusely cuneate or nearly rounded, the upp 

 half narrowed gradually to the point, or the apex abruptly narrowed, shoi 

 cuspidate; terminal pinna simple, similar to the lateral ones but not rare 

 very elongated and strap-shaped. Texture papyraceous or subcoriaceous; su 

 faces naked or TiUose, often conspicuously hairy in the younger forms; cost 

 whether or not with some few scattered fimbriate scales beneath; areolae 

 4 — 5 rows on each side of the costae. Sori in 1 row on each side, confim 

 to the costal areolae, immersed in deep cavities, which form very dislin 

 warts or tubercles on the upper surface; paraphyses dark-brown, oblong ai 

 mostly irregularly, pinnately or slellately incised at the apex. 

 Malaya; Trap. Australia. 



(117a) p. molliculum, Copeh, Polypod. Phiipp., 124; P. tomenh 

 lum, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ♦ 



Rhizome wide-creeping, the scales small, subulate, ferrugineous. Stipi 

 ± 10 c.M. long, suberect, naked or nearly so. Fronds 15 — 20 c.M. louj 

 + 8 c.M. broad, pinnate. Pinnae narrowly lanceolate, + 6 — 8 m.M. broai 

 acute, serrate or crenate towards the base, short-auriculate, the base + trui 

 cate, sessile but not adnate. Texture herbaceous; surfaces clothed with 

 short, soft tomentum; veins free beyond a single row of areolae on eac 

 side. Sori scarcely immersed. 



Philippines. 



* jmb) P . pgllon s , jri . , Flor . Jav . , II , 178, tub TYYXIV, A; i 



subauriculalum, BL, var., C. Chr., Ind. Fil. 



Rhizome creeping, pruinose, clothed with few, thin, lia^^edSies, at lengt 

 ^ ± naked. Stipes subremote, 5—13 c.M. long, glaJjasCent^ pale-green, hei 



I and there pale-tuscous. Fronds 10—40 c.MJ^wigTS— 10 c.M. broad, oblonj 



3 the rachis dirty-stramineous, hirsute^Jiie-'Sairs intermixed with small, adprei 



g- ^ sed or curved, narrow-lancegjate^ subulate, fimbriato-denticulate, black-fui 



cons, deciduous scale§^-«nnae + 10— 15-jugate; terminal pinna + pinnat 

 M fid at liie ba^e<'ifie lateral ones opposite or alternate, sessile, straight c 



subfelcjtef^e base broadly rounded to cordato-truncate, the edge crenati 



lata the ^pny hlnntith nr arnt.. Tt>vtn..o ..^tt.^^ t.»^].„^a»„e ♦,> ^^; ^„ 



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