738 860. LEPTOCHILUS. § 1. POECILOPTKWS. 



Rhizome stoat, creeping, scaly. Stipes of barren fronds 2*/j — 5 c.^ 

 long, clothed with soft, brownish or reddish, spreading hairs. Barren fronc 

 oblong, 7—10 c.M. long, o^k^G c.M. broad, with an ovate or oblong, largi 

 blunt, bluntly lobed terminal pinna, the lobes sometimes reaching to V4"^3 

 down to the costa. Below this usually a single pair of small, sessile, rouni 

 ish or ovate, spreading, auricled segments, blunt at the apex, + truncal 

 or subcordate at the base. Texture thinly herbaceous; main veins distin( 

 to the edge; veins hairy beneath; areolae copious, vrith free veiniels. Fei 

 tile fronds ternate, on slender stipes 15—25 c.M. long, naked except at th 

 base; terminal segment linear, 27^—5 c.M. long, + 2'/i m.M. broad, entire 

 lateral segments erecto-patent, similar but shorter. 



Trap. Asia. 



•^ — 1ji inaon s tail S ^ € ■ <? fc * s i Ind i FiLj Gpnnopime JwooH s fam 



Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 45; L. heteroclilus, C. Chr., var. inconstanSyflani 



Philipp. Journ., II, 160. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, scaly. Sterile fronds rarely sipjple, often pinnaU 



4- 8 c.M. or sometimes more long, linear, lanceolptefoblanceolate or ovatt 

 ^^ on stipes 1 — 3 c.M. long, Ihe stipes slender^^^^eSly or naked; terminal pinn 



§ commonly very long, narrow, proIiferojj»f^teral pinnae 2— 6-jugate, erectc 



•2 patent, commonly obovate, rareljx<'rbicular or lanceolate, obtuse, entire o 



3 rarely serrate, + decurrepj<^eins inconspicuous; areolae few, with fre 



03 veinlets. Fertile fronj^S'lmear, on stipes 5 — 10 c.M. long, pinnate, the stipe 



^ erect, filiform, mItm above, the pinnae 2 — 4-jugate, distant, the lowest some 



times staJJseflT orbicular or oblong, entire, 1 — 4 m.M. long; free veinlet 



few^,,ei^one. 



MgQW . 



(9) Ij, prolifer, C. Cfcr., Ind. Fil.; Polybotrya prolifera, Bory, B^l 

 Voy. Bot., II, 18; Poedlopteris prolifera, Pr., Epim., 172. 



Stipes naked, subtrigonal, tvdsted, + 17'/j c.M. long. Fronds dimoi 

 phous. Barren fronds pinnate with + 5 pinnae on each side below the ofte 

 proliferous terminal one, + 22 '/j c.M. long. Pinnae alternate, 7 — 10 cJi 

 long, + 27j C.M. broad, acuminate, ovate-oblong, short-stalked, truncate a 

 the base, the edge broadly and bluntly crenate, the crenations finely toothed 

 Colour pale-green; veins whitish and very conspicuous beneath. Fertile frond 

 with the pinnae linear, pale-reddish, slightly twisted. 



New Guinea; Br. India. 



