6S8 71. POLTPODIUM. § 6. PLSOPELTIS. b*. LEPISORHS. 



on each side of the costa, with a few others forming an outer row at the 

 middle of the frond. 

 New Guinea. 



• (155) P. stenophyllum, bi^ Rac; Flor. Btz., I, 104; Bl. Flor. 

 Jav. n, 134, tab. LV, fig. 1, a^b; Pleopeltis slenophylla, Moore, Bedd., Ferns 

 Br.I, II, tab. CCXXXIV. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, the scales dense, lanceolate-subulate, acuminate, 

 entire, brownish. Stipes '/j — 6 c.M. apart, 1 — 272 c.M. or more long, firm, 

 erect. Fronds 8 — 25 c.M, long, 5—13 mm. broad, narrowed gradually to both 

 ends, the apex varying from acute to rounded, the edge entire. Texture 

 very coriaceous; surfaces naked; no distinct main veins; veins hidden; areolae 

 with few free veinlets. Son deeply immersed, very prominent on the upper 

 surface, placed in 1 row on each side near the edge. — The form vrith the 

 bluntly rounded fronds is var. ohtusum, Christ (Ann. Btz., XV, 153). 



Malaya; Fiji. 



* (156a) P. reirolutum, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; P. Umgifolium, MM., 

 Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 104; P. conligmm, Hk. (not Wall.), Fil. Exot., tab. XX; 

 Icon. PL, X, tab. CMLXXXVII: Pleopeltis Imgifolia, Bedd., Ferns Br.I., I, tab. 

 VII; Grammitis longi folia, BL, Enum., 119; Drynaria revoluta, J. Sm., Journ. 

 of Bot, ffl, 421. 



Rhizome creeping, woody, the scales linear-lanceolate, brown or black, not 

 quile spreading. Stipes short, firm. Fronds 30 — 70 c.M. long, 1 — 4 c.M. 

 broad, + ligulate, narrowed gradually to both ends, the apex blunt or blunt- 

 ish, the edge entire, often revolute. Texture coriaceous ; under surface naked or 

 slightly furfuraceous ; no main veins; areolae fine, hidden, with free veinlets. 

 Sori oblong, 2 — 3 X as long as broad, immersed, parallel to the edge, con- 

 fined to the upper %— % part of the frond, placed in a line nearly close to 

 the edge; young capsules mixed vrith small peltate scales. — The young plants 

 have the texture thin, membranaceous to herbaceous, the veins conspicuous. 

 A form found in Celebes has the sori round, large. 



Malaya; New Caledonia. 



(lB6fe) P . prodMCtUMB, C hm i*ff Phjlipp . Journ . , II, 17 8 . 



Rhizome short-creeping, covered vrith small, scattered, setiform scales. 

 Stipes approximate, ± 10 c.M. long, stramineous, naked. Fronds linear, ± 

 63 C.M. long, ± 1 — I'/* c.M. broad, the apex acutely long-acuminate, the 



