690 72. CYCLOPHORUS. § 2. NIPHOPSIS. 



: • ''«/. J..,'"-. 



JS.^. Sort imalLtui-tmtmte. 



y. Rhizome wide-creeping; fronds distant, solitary. 



(51) C. argyrolepis. 

 7.7. Rhizome short-creeping; fronds not solitary, aggregate or 

 approximate. 



S. Stellate hairs without a spine-like central branch; 

 leaf-tissue with palisade cells (*). 

 s. Fronds stalked; stipes to 30 c.M. long, sub- 

 terete or laterally compressed, not angled, groov- 

 ed in front. (32) C. stigmosus. 

 s.e. Fronds sessile or stalked; stipes not subterele, 

 angled, not grooved, flattened in front. 



(53) G. Beddomeanus. 

 ^.J. Stellate hairs with a very long, erect, spine-like 

 central branch; leaf-tissue without palisade cells. 



(54) C. splendens. 



* (22) C Ijauterbachii, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Niphobolus Lauter- 

 bachii, Christ, Schum. & Laut., Flor. deut. Sch.geb., 142; Gies., Niph., 221, 



fig. 20. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, filiform, the scales subulate, peltate, pale-coloured, 

 thin, scaltered. Fronds scattered, dimorphous, fiarren fronds spathulate, 

 ovate or lanceolate, ± I'/i — '^^k c.M. long, + 5 m.M. broad, obtuse, entire, 

 on stipes 1 — 2 c.M. long. Texture rigidly coriaceous; under surface with the 

 stellate hairs small, adpressed, scarcely visible, greyish-green; veins inconspi- 

 cuous; areolae oblong. Fertile fronds linear-ligulate, 6 — 8 c.M. long, 2—3 

 m.M. broad, acute to caudate, sinuato-crenate, on stipes 1 — 2 c.M. long. Sori 

 submarginal, occupying the crenations, the stalks of the capsules immersed 

 in deep cavities. 



New Guinea. 



(25) C COnf laens, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Polypodium confluens, R. Br., 

 Warb., Mons., I, 61 (not Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 349); P. glabrum, Mett., Hk. Bk., 

 Syn. Fil., 356; Melt., Farng., I, Polypod., tab. Ill, fig. 6—8; Niphobolus con- 

 fluens, Spr., Gies., Niph., 172. 



(*) See Gies., Niph., 78—79, fig. 15. 



