n. . ruLiruulUM. ^ 0. ' GONIOPHLEBICM. tt. iSCHELlOMPlS. Gli6 



areolae in 2-^3 rows on each side;- Sofi in 1' row on: each side, distinctly 

 immersed. . .d&viavM^ 



¥ar. serratifolium : Pinnae 'coarsely toothed. 



Maktyai Samoa, Trap. Australia,', New Caledonia. 



$ 6. PLEOPELTIS. a. Myrmecophila. '*. Aspidopodium. 



1. Fronds simple or lobed. (122) P. sinuosum. 



M.l. Fronds deeply pinnati/id or pinnate. 



S. Rhizome forming a single, bulbous or wide-spreading crust. 



3. Soral cavities without a raised border. (123) P. lomarioides. 



3.3. Soral cavities with a raised border. (124) P. sarcopus. 



3.2. Rhizome forming a row of united, subconvex, oblong or roundish crusts. 



(125) P. imbricatum. 



♦ (122) P. sinuosum, WaU., Rac, Plor. Btz., I, 103; Hk., Spec. 

 Pil., V, tab. CCLXXXIV; Pleopeltis sinuosa, Bedd., FeWis Br.I., I, tab. VIII. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, thick, densely clothed with adpressed, peltate, 

 roundish scales, dark in the centre and pale round the edge. Stipes '/» — S 

 c.M. long, firm, naked, arising from large, prominent, conical protuberances. 

 Fronds dimorphous; barren fronds 7—1 7*4 c.M. long, 2 -2 '/a c.M. broad, the 

 apex blunt or rounded, the edge entire, narrowed to the base, fertile ones ± 

 20 — 40 C.M.. long, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, ioarrowed to the base, the edge + sinua' 

 te. Texture coriaceous; surfaces nake"d; veins obscure. Sori large, immersed, 

 in 1 row on each side, nearer the edge than the midrib, 1 to each lobe. 



Malaya. 



• (123)- P. lomarioides, Hme, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 365; Me'tt., 

 Farng., I, Polypod., tab. II, fig. 18 — 19; Drynaria lomarioides, J. Sm., Journ. 

 of Bot., Ill, 397. 



Rhizome forming a thick, wide-spreading crust densely clothed with small 

 peltate scales, ferrugineous in the centre, with a broad, scariose border. 

 Stipes arising from conical protuberances, 5 — 10 c.M. long, firm, erect. 

 Fronds 16—45 c.M. long, 7 — 15 c.M. broad, the barren ones cut down 

 within 3—7 m.M. of the costa into close, iofizontal^ oblong, entire, blunt 



