632 71. POLTPODIUM. § 6. PLEOPELTIS. b*. LEPISORUS. 



(137) p. peltatam, e. A. e. ft.; Pleopeltis peltala, Scort., MS. ; PI. 

 superficialis, Bedd., var. latifrons, Bedd., Journ. of Bot., XXXI, 226. 



Near P. superficiale, Bl. but the scales of the rhizome roundish, + ad- 

 pressed, black with a brown edge. Stipes shorter; fronds shorter and broader. 



Malacca. 



* (138) P. antrophyoides, e. A. r. Jt.j Bull. D6p. Agr. I. N., 

 i908, XVm, 22. 



Rhizome short-creeping, the scales brownish, linear-lanceolate, entire or 

 slightly toothed. Fronds sessile or short-stalked, 8 — 15 c.M. long, the upper 

 '/j — Vs ovate-lanceolete, 3 — 5 c.M. broad, the apex short-acuminate, the edge 

 entire, recurved, the base narrowed into the narrow, linear-cuneate, decurrent 

 lower part the frond. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; costa prominent 

 in the lower part, becoming gradually finer and indistinct upwards, nearly 

 wanting towards the apex; veins hidden; areolae very irregular, numerous, 

 with copious free veinlets. Sori scattered irregularly, moderately large. 



Sumatra (Forbes, No. 5119). 



* (139) P. cnrtidens, Cht^t, Ann. Btz., XX, 122. 



Rhizome short-creeping, the scales not dense, lanceolate-subulate, firm, 

 brown. Stipes short, to + 3 c.M. long, tufted, slender. Fronds ± 15 — 20 

 c.M. long, + I'/j c.M. broad, lanceolate, acute, the edge slightly undulate and 

 broadly crenate with shallow, tooth-like, decumbent crenations, the base nar- 

 rowed very gradually into the stipe. Texture coriaceous but not very thick; 

 surfaces naked; costa prominent; no distinct main veins; areolae irregular, 

 with few free veinlets. Sori numerous, small, placed in 3 — 4 irregular rows 

 on each side, leaving a space from the margin, hardly immersed. 



Borneo. 



* (140) P Bakeri, £«««•««., Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem., VU, 48, />. <oru- 

 losum, BL, Journ. of Bot., XVIII, 213 (not Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., XVI, 204). 



Rhizome slender, wide-creeping, densely clothed with linear, acuminate, 

 ciliate, reddish-brown scales. Fronds very dimorphous ; sterile fronds on stiffly 

 erect, naked stipes S'/j — 4 c.M. long, the lamina simple, oblong or linear-oblong, 

 entire or slightly and broadly crenate, blunt or acute, ^%—l c.M. long, 

 I'/i — 2 '/a c.M. broad at or below the middle, the base cuneate. Texture 

 rigidly coriaceous; surfaces naked; veins immersed, obscure; no mains veins; 

 areolae copious, small, irregular, with free veinlets. Fertile fronds on much 



