692 72. CTCLOPHORUS. § 2. NIFHOPSIS. 



tate. with a fuscous centre, the point long, linear, acuminate, pale-brown 

 (not white), spreading. Stipes firm, erect, S'/j — 10 c.M. long. Fronds linear- 

 lanceolate, 30 — 60 c.M. long, 1 — 2 cM. broad, the soriferous upper part li- 

 near, contracted, the base narrowed. Texture coriaceous; upper surface nak- 

 ed or slightly tomentose when young, lower densely coated with dirty-white 

 or greyish-ferrugineous tomentum; veins hidden. Sori large, oblong, placed 

 in 1 row on each side of the midrib, confined to the nairowed upper '/s^ — 

 */, of the frond, confluent. 

 Philippines. 



• (25) C abbreviatus, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Polypodium abbreviaium, 

 Mett., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 98; Niphobohis abbreviatus, ZolL, Gies., Niph., 

 160; N. Lingua, Spr., p. p. (*) 



Rhizome wide-creeping; scales peltate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, brown, 

 the margin pale, ciliate, the ciliae fine, crisped, deciduous. Stipes 14 — 20 

 cM. long, densely covered with adpressed stellate hairs. Fronds dimor- 

 phous. Barren fronds roundish or ovate, 7 — 10 c.M. long, 3 — 7 c.M. broad, 

 the apex blunt or rounded, the base suddenly narrowed into a short, decur- 

 rent wing. Texture coriaceous; upper surface covered with scattered, fuga- 

 cious, adpressed stellate hairs and often also with white cretaceous dots; 

 under side densely tomentose, the tomentum adpressed; costa and main veins 

 conspicuous; areolae irregular, with few free veinlets. Fertile fronds more 

 elongate, ± '/aX as broad as long, narrowed gradually to the stipe and tlie 

 blunlish apex. Sori densely crowded, at length confluent, occupying the up- 

 per ^.'s' of the frond. — The scales at the bases of the stipes are pale, blunt, 

 deciduously ciliate, rather large. 



Java, Sumatra. 



(26) C l¥arburgii, C. Ch,-., Ind. Fil.; Niphobolus Warburgii, Gies., 

 Niph., 163; N. Lingua, Spr., p. p. (*) 



Rhizome wide-creeping, branched; scales peltate and rounded or emargi- 

 nate at the base, the point long-acuminate, the margin long-ciliate. Stipes 

 1—4 c.M. long, 1—5 c.M. apart. Sterile fronds commonly 5—8 c.M. long 

 and 2—3 c.M. broad, oblong, the apex acuminate, the base subcuneate; fer- 

 tile fronds longer and broader, on longer stipes. Texture coriaceous; upper 

 surface naked ; under side covered with adpressed, whitish or brownish to- 



(•) See Gies, Niph., 167—158. 



