636 71. POLYPODIUM. § 6. PLEOPELTIS. b*. LEPISORHS. 



se near the base, the others blackish-brown, adpressed, naked. Fronds 

 subdimorphous, the barren ones on stalks under 8 m.M. long, the fertile on 

 stalks + 2 '/a C.M. long. Barren fronds distant, 8 — 25 m.M. long, 6 — 15 

 m.M. broad, obovate, the apex rounded, the edge broadly crenate, slightly 

 reflexed, the base narrowed suddenly. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; 

 costa distinct beneath in the lower half. Fertile fronds lanceolate-spathulate, 

 + 2 C.M. long, 5 — 8 m.M. broad, the apex rounded, the base cuneate. Sori 

 in 1 row on each side, + 3 — 5 to a row, occupying the upper '/^ — '|^ of 

 the firond. 



Java, Luzon. 



(149) P. rudimentum, Copeh, Polypod. Philipp., 125; (P. oodes, 

 Kze, Copel., Philipp. Journ., IH,^ 55). 



Rhizome wide-creeping, slender, the scales linear-subulate, brownish. Sti- 

 pes I'/j — 2Yi C.M. long, erect, filiform, naked, stramineous. Fronds orbicular- 

 ovate, the fertile ones rather narrower, 1 — 2 c.M. long, rounded at both 

 ends, entire or finely serrate. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked; costa 

 evanishing near the apex; veins obscure, anastomosing irregularly, or someti- 

 mes free but hamate. Sori few, subimmersed, round, in 1 row on each 

 side, + medial between the costa and margin. 



Philippines. 



(150) P. snbecostaiuni, Hh., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil,, 353; Hk.,Spec. 

 Fil., V, tab. CGLXXXIII, A. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales brown, fibrillose, squarrose. Fronds sessile, 

 10—20 c.M. long, 1 — I'/j c.M. broad, narrowed gradually to both ends, the 

 edge entire. Texture thick, coriaceous; colour pale-green; surfaces naked; 

 midrib upwards indistinct; no main veins; areolae obscure. Sori in a single 

 submarginal row. 



Borneo. 



* (151) P. rostratum, me., Hk. Bk., Syn. FU., 353; Hk., Icon. 

 PL, X, tab. CMLHI; P. subroslratum, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Pleopellis rostrafa, 

 Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CLIX; — var. trifurcatum, Christ, Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss., 2« S^rie, I, 449. 



Rhizome filiform, wide-creeping, the scales small, fibrillose. Stipes 2*/, — 

 5 c.M. long, firm, naked. Fronds 5—10 c.M. long, 1— 27^ c.M, broad, nar- 

 rowed gradually to both ends, the edge entire, the apex rostrate. Texture 



