694 72. GTCIOPHORUS. § S. mPHOPSis. 



Rhizome creeping, scaly. Barren fronds linear-oblong, 20—30 c.M. long, 

 5 — 5 c.M. broad, narrowed towards botli ends, on slipes to 12 '/a c.M. long; 

 fertile fronds linear-lanceolate, 35—65 c.M. long, 2—4 c.M. broad, on stipes 

 to 5 c M. long. Texture coriaceous ; upper surface soon naked, lower densely 

 clothed with soft, brown tomentum; costa prominent; main veins slightly 

 prominent; areolae hidden, with the included veinlets simple or forked, free 

 or anastomosing. Sori large, in 2 rows between the main veins, occupying 

 the upper V4 — Vi of tlie frond, forming 5—6 rows on each side of the 

 costa in the broader part of the frond; capsules mixed with stellate hairs, 

 especially when young. — Baker and Diels placed this species in Niphobolus, 

 but the specimens from Java (Leg. de Vriese) and Sumatra (Leg. Korthals) 

 determined by Burck (as P. dislichocarpum, Melt.) and a plant sent from 

 Malacca and cultivated in the Buitenzorg gardens have the venation decidedly 

 irregular. 



Java, Sumatra, Malacca. 



• (30) C asterosorus, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Poly podium aslerosorum, 

 Bk., Journ. of Bot., XVIII, 214. 



Rhizome slender, wide-trailing, clothed with large, lanceolate, pale-reddish- 

 brown, membranaceous scales. Stipes scattered, naked, pale-brown, 5 — 8 c.M. 

 long. Fronds lanceolate, entire, 20 — 30 c.M. long, 2 — 27i c.M. broad above 

 the middle, acute, narrowed gradually towards the base. Texture coriaceous; 

 upper surface naked, lower whitish, matted with loose, soft, reddish-brown 

 tomentum; main veins obscure, erecto-patent, enclosing copious minute areo- 

 lae; free veinlets simple or forked. Sori large, round, superficial, densely 

 pilose, in erecto-patent rows of 5 — 6 between the midrib and margin, 

 filling up the whole of the upper part of the frond and mixed with copious 

 soft, brown stellate hairs. — Near C. distichocarpus, C. Chr. 



Sumatra. 



(31) C argyrolepis, Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., 2« S^rie, VI, 991. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, string-shaped,, branched, black-purple, densely clothed 

 with subulate, aristate, scariose, squarrose, glistering-whife scales. Stipes dis- 

 tant, solitary, ± j c.M. long, flattened, slender, white-woolly, soon naked. 

 Fronds linear-lanceolate, 18—40 c.M. long, 2— 2'/j c.M. troad, the apex elon- 

 gate, acuminate, the edge entire, involute when dried, the base ovate, not or 

 hardly decurreut. Texture carnoso-coriaceous, flaccid; costa distinct; veins 

 rather occult; areolae elongate, irregular, with free veinlets; upper surface 



