83. CHEIROPLtlURlA. 735 



lanceolate, simple, narrowed towards both ends, with ± 3 prominent ribs, on 

 stipes 43 c.M. or more long. 



War. integrifolia: Barren fronds ovate-acuminate, simple. 



Sumatra, Java, Borneo, New Guinea, Philippines; Formosa, Liu-Kiu. 



86«. LEPTOOHILiXJS, Kaulfuss. 



Sporangia densely crowded over the under surface of the contracted fertile 

 fronds or pinnae of fertile fronds. Paraphyses mostly small or wanting. 

 Spores generally bilateral or ellipsoidal, often purveyed with more or less 

 deciduous, elevate, reticulate, entire, plicate or fimbriate membranes. 



Rhizome generally creeping. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome. Fronds 

 dimorphous, simple or pinnate; veins anastomosing copiously, + as in Aspi- 

 dium, very rarely as in Nephrodium; areolae generally with included free 

 veinlets. i Pinnae not articulate to the rachis. 



Pan tropical. 



Arrangement of the sections. 



§1. POECILOPTERIS (Gymnopteris). Main veins distinct nearly or quite to 



the edge. Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., tab. VII, fig. 60, v— x, aa— bb; Diels, in 



Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., P, fig. 106—107. 

 §2. CHRYSODIUM. Main veins wanting or indistinct. Fronds simple or 



ternate, the segments not articulate to the rachis. Hk. Bk., 1. c, fig. 



60, y— z. 

 ■§5. LCMAGRAMMA. — Like § a, but tho frondo pinnate, the oogmonto articu 



■ lato to tho poohio. (') 



S 1. POECILOPTERIS 



a. Barren fronds typically simple and entire, but some of them sometimes ter- 

 nate or quinate. 

 $. Veins anastomosing in costal arches only, the rest free. 



(1) L. oligodictyus 

 $.$. Veins anastomosing copiously. 



(• ■ ) Tliia acetion would pcrhopo better be trotttod ao a diotinot gonuD, 



