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724 80. POITBOTKYA. 



§ 1. EGENOLFIA. 



» (1) P. appendiculata, 3. Sm. (not Bedd.), Christ, Farnkr. 

 Erde, 43; Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 102; Bedd., Fer 

 S.I., tab. CXCIV; P. marginata, BL, Enum., 100; Acroslichum appendicui 

 lum, Willd., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 32; — var. Hamiltoniana, Bedd., Hand 

 Ind. Ferns, 416; Ferns Br.I., I, tab. CXI (the 3 lower figures); P. Ham 

 toniana, Pr., Tent. Pterid., 231 ; A. Hamiltonianum, Wall., List, No. 29. 



Rhizome firm, woody, short-creeping, the scales brown, lanceolate. S 

 pes approximate, 7 — 15 c.M. long, erect, slightly scaly like the rachis, tl 

 scales linear. Barren fronds simply pinnate, ovate-lanceolate, sometimes roc 

 ing at the apex, 15 — 50 c.M. long, 6 — 20 c.M. broad. Pinnae short-stalke 

 ± approximate, '/j — ^ c.M. broad, the sides parallel, the apex blunt, the edg 

 varying from slightly crenate to cut Vi'^^Y down to the midrib into oblon 

 blunt lobes, with a seta or bristle-like tooth in the sinuses, the base unequi 

 sided, the upper base subtruncate, auricled, the lower truncate or cuneal 

 Texture herbaceous, firm; surfaces naked; veins visible, pinnate. Ferti 

 fronds on the longest stipes, pinnate; pinnae oblong or linear-oblong, mu( 

 shorter and narrower than the barren ones. 



Tar. Hamiltoniana: Fertile pinnae contracted. Sori in bea 

 like clusters without any connecting leafy membrane. 



Trap. Asia; — var. Hamiltoniana: Malacca; Chitlagong, Assam. 



§ 2. PSOMIOCARPA. 



• (2) P. Mieuwenhniiiii (Nieuwenhuisenu), Mtac., Bull. Ac. Cra( 

 i902, 57; Acroslichum Nieuwenhuisii, Rac., MS. in Herb. Bog. 



Rhizome erect, scaly at the extremity, the scales yellowish-brown, sprea 

 ing, lanceolate. Stipes 5—40 c.M. long, clothed towards the base with mai 

 scattered, spreading or deflexed, lanceolate-acuminate, brownish scales, tl 



'-■ rest glossy, minutely pubescent or sbort-fibrillose and blackish-purplish, ; 



g is the rachis. Fronds lanceolale-oblong, acuminate, 10 — 30 c.M. long, 7 I 



C.M. broad near the base, the apex pinnatifid, the rest pinnate. Pinnae linea 

 oblong, acuminate, pinnatifid, fo 2 '4 c.M. broad, broadest in the upper ha 

 slightly narrowed towards the base, the lowest a little abbreviate and deflexe 

 Lobes oblong, erecto-patent, rather close, rounded at the apex, the longe 

 6—10 m.M. long, 3—5 m.M. broad, the lowest spreading and not rarely 



