7l. POLYPODIUM. §^6. PLEOPELTIS. C**. PHVMAtOPSIS. 6^9 



Rhizome woody, creeping, the scales dense, spreading, filiform-subulate, 

 fine, brown, to 15 m.M. long. Stipes 10—30 c.M. long, firm, erect, naked, 

 glossy. Fronds sometimes simple, commonly pinnate, to 50—60 c.M. long, 

 15—40 cM. broad, with several (to 17) + distant, linear-lanceolate, 

 sessile or stalked, erecto-patent pinnae on each side,, which are 10 — 25 c.M. 

 long, ^^^ c.M. broad, the apex much acuminate, the edges entire or slight- 

 ly repand towards the point, the base narrowed. Texture coriaceous; upper 

 surface covered with small, white, cretaceous dots all over or only near the 

 edge; veins usually indistinct. Sori in a single row on each side between 

 the midrib and edge. 



' yttP. ygpian s : Pinnao narrower ; main veins di s tinct . . 



Malaya. 



(218) P. lloiseleyi, JBU., Journ. of Linn. Soc, Bot., XV, 110. 



Stipes 15 — 25 c.M. long, stramineous, naked. Fronds quadrangular or 

 rhomboidal, simply pinnate, 20 — 40 c.M. long, 20^30 c.M. broad. Pinnae 

 4— 6-jugate, linear, acuminate, all dilatato-adnate at the base, erecto-patent 

 or subpatulous, 1 — 2 c.M. broad, the terminal one like the rest but often 

 larger, the margin horny, irregularly repand. Texture subcoriaceous ; surfa- 

 ces naked; costae and main veins glossy and stramineous; areolae immersed, 

 rather large; free veinlets copious, knobbed. Sori round, slightly immersed, 

 in 1 row on each side nearer the margin than the costa. 



Moluccas, New Guinea. 



♦ (2 J 9a) P. palmatnm, si., Rac, Plor. Btz., I, 114; Bl., Flor. 

 Jav., II, 150, tab. LXIV; P i fi i rnTinffrf»n » ) Kco, Motti, Pai'ug'.V'fr^otypod.j MOr 

 Pleopellis palmata, Moore, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Perns, 368; Ferns Br.l., II, tab. 

 CLVI; — var. angustatum; P. angustatum, BL, Mett, 1. c, 108; BL, 1. c, 

 148, tab., LXII; — jmr. obtucunr. ' 



Rhizome stout, creeping; scales dense, conspicuous, linear-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, thin, pale-brown, the base broad, rounded, peltate, the point acute, 

 the edge obscurely toothed or cilifite. Stipes distant, 7 — 30 c.M. long, erect, 

 naked, glossy. Fronds 15 — 45 c.M. long, 15 — 30 c.M. broad or broader, 

 pinnate. Terminal pinna linear or \ lanceolate, entire or slightly repand, 

 creriate or toothed; lateral pinnae similar, 1 — 10 on each side, erecto-patent, 

 10 — 25 c.M. long, Vj — * c.M. broad, lanceolate, acuminate or caudate, narrow- 

 ed to the base and then dilated again, broadly adnate to the rachis; lower 

 pinnae not rai'ely + stalked, and the barren ones often the broadest. Tex- 



