86a. LEPTOCHILUS. S 1. POECILOPTERIS. 741 



rigid; surfaces naked; veins anastomosing as in Nephrodium ; main veins dis- 

 tinct to the edge; veins 3-jugate. Fertile fronds + 30 c.M. long, + o% 

 c.M. broad, on longer stipes; pinnae sessile, remote, 4—5 m.M. broad. 

 Borneo. 



(14) Ij. celebicus, C. Cfc*-., Ind. Pil.; Acrostichum celebicum, Bk, 

 Kew Bull., i90i, 14S. 



Stipes densely tufted, slender, naked, 7— IS c.M. long or longei*, those 

 of the fertile fronds the longest. Fronds oblong-lanceolate, the barren ones 

 12—15 c.M. long, 5—8 c.M. broad, pinnate. Pinnae sessile, lanceolate, 1 Vg — I'/z 

 c.M. broad at the base, those of the fertile fronds narrower, slightly pinna- 

 tifid, the lobes obtuse, the base truncate, auricled on the upper side. Rachis 

 slender, pubescent; under surface obscurely pubescent; main veins pinnate; 

 veins 3 — 4-jugate, anastomosing at the apex. 



» (15) li. vil'ens, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Acrostichum virens, Wall., Hk. 



Bk, 'Syn. Fil., 420, p. p.; Hk. & Grev., Ic. Fil., tab. CCXXI; Gymmpleris 

 virens. Keys., Pol. Cyath. Bung., 33 ; G. conlamirians, Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 

 i5^ ; [Poecilopteris repanda, Bedd., Ferns S.I.. tab. CGII; P. semicordata, Moore, 

 Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCLXX. 



Rhiaomo thick) chert croopingi — Stipoc coalyi 10 — 30 C i M . long i — Fronife 

 30 — 60 P.M. long, pinnate; rachis + scaly, more or less winge^^^'Piunae 

 11 — 30 on each side, sessile or short-stalked, lanceolate^tp-'Sc.M. long, to 

 2'/2 c.M. broad, the point acute, the edge enlire,-.*fSnate or more or less 

 deeply lobed or repand, with the lobes cpentfte or toothed; terminal pinna 

 often ± elongated and proliferous.^Ceif^e rather herbaceous; costae promi- 

 nent; main veins distinct to,jb<^ of the way to the margin; areolae broad, 

 irregular, in 5 — 4 rpwC^the costal ones without free veinlets, the others 

 generally wijii'-^everal free or irregularly joining included veinlets. Fertile 

 frondg-^^Clm the pinnae much contracted. 

 ^"^ Malaooa, Cctofmg) PhtUppmoe; Burmah, South. India, C«ylon , 



* (16a) Wj. cuspidatus, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.; Acrostichum repandum, 

 Bl, Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 55; Bl, Flor. Jav., II, 39, tab. XIV— XV; Gymnopteris 

 repanda, Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 50; Poecilopteris repanda, Pr., Epim., 172; 

 Nephrodium cuspidatum, Pr., (oldest name); — var. Quoyanus; A. Quoyanum, 

 Gaud., Frey*., Voy. Ur. Phys., Bot„ 306, tab- III, 



