680 72. CTCLOPHORUS. § 1. MIPHOBOLDS. 



f.f . Upper surface purveyed with depressed dots 

 which are covered with minute, deciduous 

 blackish, calcareous scales. (18) C. porosus 

 S.S. Sori in 5 — 8 rows on each side of~ the costa. 



6. Upper surface purveyed with depressed dot 



and minute, deciduous, blackish, calcareou 



scales. (19) C. slicticus 



«.«. Upper surface not purveyed with depressed dol 



and minute blackish scales. (20) C. mollis 



3.3. Fully developed fronds more than 30 c.M. long. Sori i 



5—8 rows on each side of the casta. (21) C. albicans 



^1) C pachydermus, C. Chr., lnd.¥il.;Polypodiumpachydermum 

 Bk., Journ of Liiin. Soc, Bot., XV, 108. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, woody,, flexuose, the scales minute, adpressec 

 lanceolate, hlack, mixed with a brown powder. Stipes naked, 1 — 2'/j c.ft 

 long. Fronds dimorphous, the barren ones oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, Vl^- 

 5 C.M. long, 1—2 c.M. broad, cuneate at the base, the fertile ones ligulatc 

 7 — 10 c.M. long.. Texture thick, coriaceous; upper surface naked, lower clotl 

 ed with a thin tomentum visible by magnifying power, the hairs with a dii 

 tinet bare space round each; veins immersed. Sori occupying the upper ', 

 or % of the frond, superficial, 6 — 8 in erecto-patent rows between midri 

 and edge. 



Kei Islands, Moluccas. 



1 (a) C i Pupo s tpi B i C , C hm, , Ind i Fil l ) Potypntlium ntpattro , R , ft 



Melt., Farng., I, Polypod., 125; P. confluens, Hk. (not R. Br.), Hk^^Bferf^i 

 Fil., 349; Niphobolus rupeslris, Spr., Gies., Niph., 169; Hk. ^j^ftfev., Ic. Fi! 

 tab. XCIII. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, slender, rather filifojjHf^ranched, densely cloth« 

 with pale-ferrugineous, linear-subulate, hajj>frtSinted scales, peltate at the has 

 Fronds scattered, dimorphous. BjjBrtn fronds short-stalked or subsessile, o 

 bicular, oblong, rhomboidaj^^efspathulate, ± 1^-2 c.M. long, ± '/» — 1 d 

 broad, mostly broadpst^t or above the middle, the apex rounded, the ba 

 cuneate or rpiHmed. Texture very thick ; upper surface often soon nake 

 lowerckrfned with dense but adpressed, moderately woolly, brownish tome 

 voinc quito "hiddon i — F e rtile fronde linoar w li ga l atOi 8 IB OiM. Ion 



