682 71. POLYPODIUM. § 6. PIEOPELTIS. b**. PLEURIDICM. 



(183) p. oodes, Kiee, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 3S4. 



Rhizome slender, the scales small, fibrillose, yellowish. Stipes distant, 

 slender, naked, 7 — 10 c.M. long. Fronds S'/j— 6'/, c.M. long, 2'/, — S'/j c.M. 

 broad, ovate, entire, the base rounded, hardly decurrent. Texture coriaceous; 

 both surfaces naked; main veins distinct neai'ly to the edge; areolae fine, 

 with free veinlets. Sori rather large, few, scattered. 



Philippines, Borneo. 



(184) P. dulitense, Jrie., Kew Bull., 1893, 211. 



Rhizome slender, wide-creeping, the scales lanceolate, membranaceous, 

 pale-brown, erecto-patent. Stipes firm, 7 — 13 c.M. long, naked, Stramineous. 

 Fronds ovate, 5 — 8 c.M. long, 2 — 5'/2 c-M. broad, simple, acute or acuminate, 

 crenate in the lower half, the base rounded or deltoid. Texture chartaceous; 

 surfaces naked, glossy; main veins erecto-patent, parallel, distant; areolae 

 hexagonal, with free veinlets. Sori small, globose, subimmersed. 



Borneo. 



(185a) P. jiuboppositum, Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., V S^rie, YI, 

 995. 



Rhi i omo orooping) aakod? — Stipoo approximatO) — :^ 3 C i M i longi naliQj!,t 

 winged nearly to the base by the gradually decurrent base oititer-trmis. 

 Fronds lanceolate, acuminate, 35 — 55 c.M. long, + 6 c.J(LJ»«j5a at the mid- 

 dle. Texture Jbcrhaceous, flaccid; surfaces naked>--i;5lour pale-green; costa 

 distioct; main veins horizontally spreajJiHg; flexuose, distinct nearly to 

 the edge; primary areolae hiddgji<^ongitudinal, in 4 — 5 rows between the 

 midrib and margin, dijjdetTinto numerous smaller secondary ones, with 

 included free vgiafefsT Sori irregular, numerous, + 2b to each primary 

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(1856) P. Scortechinii, BU., Ann. of Bot., V, 477; Pleopeltis 

 Scortechinii, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, Suppl., 95. 



Rhizome woody, wide-creeping, flexuose, calvate. Stipes brown, naked, 

 35 — 40 c.M. long. Fronds oblanceolate, acuminate, 40—45 c.M. long, 7 — 9 

 c.M. broad, obscurely repand, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base. 

 Texture membranaceous; surfaces naked; main veins distinct to the edge, 

 Sori minute, superficial, scattered, often confluent. 



Malacta. 



