■Ja. CTClOPHORnS. § 2. NIPHOPSIS. 691 



Rhizome filiform, wide-creeping, branched, the scales lanceolate, acumina- 

 te, ciliate, ferrugineous, peltate at the base. Stipes '/i— 1 Va c.M. long. Fronds 

 subdimorphous. Sterile fronds lanceolate or oblong, 3—9 c.M. long, 8—12 

 m.M. broad, the apex blunt. Texture coriaceous; upper surface naked, lower 

 densely clothed with adpressed, subferrugineous stellate hairs, at length not 

 rarely quite naked; veins hidden. Fertile fronds + linear-lanceolate or li- 

 near, longer than the barren ones. Sori large, not hidden in the tomentum, 

 commonly confined to the apex or the upper V;— '/a °f ^^^ frond, in 1 roW 

 on each side, often confluent so as to form a ridge on both sides of the 

 costa. — Near C. angustatus, Desv., but the sori more confluent. 



New Guinea; Australia, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe's Island, New Caledonia, 

 New Zealand. 



* (24a) C angustatus, Iteav., Berl. Mag., V, 300; Poly podium 

 angustatum, Sw., Rac, Plor. Btz., I, 100; Niphobolus angustatus, Spr. (not /. 

 Sm.), Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 115; Gies., Niph., 193; Hk., Gard. Ferns, 

 tab. XX; Redd., Ferns S.I., tab. CLXXXV; N. sphaeroceplialus, Hk. ^ Grev., 

 Ic. Fil., tab. XCIV; Pleopeltis angustata, i'r.. Redd., Handh. Ind. Ferns, 351. 



Rhizome firm, woody, wide-creeping, branched, the scales with a round- 

 ish, peltate, adpressed, brown or black, coriaceous base and a very long, 

 linear, finely acuminate, whitish, decoloured, membranaceous, entire, spreading, 

 deciduous or persistent point. Stipes scattered, 1 — 10 c.M-. long, covered like 

 the upper surface of the" frond with fugacious tomentum. Fronds lanceolate, 

 4 — 50 c.M. long, 2 — 5 c.M. broad, narrowed towards both ends, the apex 

 bluntish, the edge entire. Texture coriaceous: under surface densely clothed 

 with adpressed, white or subferrugineous tomentum ; costa conspicuous ; main 

 veins hidden, slightly visible when dry. Fertile fronds commonly longer than 

 the barren ones, + 20 — 50 c.M. long, 1 — 2 c.M. broad in the fertile region, the 

 barren part often broader. Sori large, + immersed, round or oblong, obli- 

 que or subparallel to the costa, in 1 row on each side, nearer the ± recurv- 

 ed edge than the midrib, sometimes confluent, slightly prominent on the 

 upper surface, occupying the upper Ve — */e of the frond. 

 Malaya; Polynesia, North. India. 



(246) C samarensis, C Chr., Ind. Fil.; Polypodium samarense, 

 Mett., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 356; Niphobolus samarensis. Fee, Copel., Polypod. 

 Philipp., 115; Gies., Niph., 191; Gyrosorium samarense, Pr., (oldest name). 



Rhizome firm, wide-creeping; scales ovate-lanceotate, entire, the base pel- 



