71. POLTPODIUM. § 6. tLEOfELTlS. b*. LEPlSORtJS. 637 



coriaceous; surfaces naked; no distinct main veins; veins immersed; areolae 

 fine, with free veinlets. Sori large, in single rows not far from the midrib. 



Var. trifnrcatuni : Fronds 2— 3-furcate, with acute lobes. 



Luzon; North. India, South. China; — var. trifurcatum: New Guinea. 



• (182) P. lineare, Thb., Hk. Bk., Syn. FiL, 5S4; P. loriforme, Hk., 

 Gard. Ferns, tab. XIV; P. contiguum, Wall., List, No. 285; Pleopeltis nuda, 

 Hk., Bau. & Hk., Gen. FiL, tab. XVIII; PI. Wightiana, Bedd., Ferns S.I., 

 tab. CLXXX; PL linearis, Moore, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 346. 



Rizome wide-creeping, woody, the scales lanceolate, dull-brown. Stipes 

 varying from ± none to 5 c.M. long. Fronds 10 — 30 c.M. or more long, 

 1—2 c.M. broad, entire, narrowed gradually to both ends. Texture subco- 

 riaceous; sufaces nearly naked; areolae fine, with copious free veinlets. Sori 

 hardly immersed, large, + oblong, in 1 row on each side, medial or nearer 

 the midrib than the edge, distant, covered with copious peltate scales when 

 young. 



Malaya; Hawaii, Japan, China, North. India, Ceylon, South. Africa. 



t 

 * (153) P. Forbestii, e. A. ». K., Bull. D6p. Agr. I. N., i908, 

 XVni, 23. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, firm, the scales dense, strongly adpressed, ovate 

 or oblong, rounded or acute at both ends, peltate, brown, with a blackish 

 centre. Stipes distant, 3 c.M. or more apart, I'/i — '^\ c.M. long, erect, firm, 

 naked, not very slender (with regard to the rhizome). Fronds broadly lan- 

 ceolate, 10 — 12 C.M. long, 272 — 4 c.M. broad below the middle, narrowed 

 gradually to an acuminate apex and base. Texture coriaceous, not thick; 

 surfaces naked; veins fine, irregularly anastomosing; areolae with free vein- 

 lets. Sori moderately large, distant, in 2 rows on each side of the midrib, 

 the outer row medial between the midrib and edge, the apex and base of 



LUC UULCl lUTT XXICU 



Sumatra (J^ornes, No. 2333). 



(1S4) P- indnratum, JBk., Ann. of Bot., V, 475, 



Rhizome slender, wide-creeping. Stipes wiry, naked, 7 — 10 c.M. long. 



Fronds simple, linear, 20 — 25 c.M. long, 1—1 V2 c.M. broad at the middle, 



narrowed gradually to both ends. Texture rigidly coriaceous; surfaces naked ; 



veins quite hidden. Sori semiglobose, superficial, forming a single lax row 



