742 86a. leptochilus. § 1. poecilopteris. 



Rhizome creeping, the scales, short, lanceolate. Stipes of barren fronds 

 15 — 50 c.M. or more long, naked or slightly scaly. Barren fronds 30 — 70 

 c.M. long, 20 — 50 c.M. broad, sometimes elongated, with about 10— 20 pinnae 

 on each side; lower pinnae 10 — 15 c.M. long, 2 — 3 c.M. broad, short-stalk- 

 ed, the edge cut into entire, crenate or serrate, blunt lobes reaching to '/a 

 of the way down, sometimes with a seta in the sinuses. Texture herbaceous; 

 rachis and both surfaces naked, or the rachis scaly; main veins distinct; 

 areolae copious, without free veinlets. Pinnae of fertile fronds' 5 — 10 c.M. 

 long,7j — I'/i cm.broad, stalked, entire or more or less deeply repand. 



Var. Quoyanus: Barren pinnae lobed Vi'^^Y down or more to 

 the costa, the lobes toothed. 



Trap. Asia, Australia, Polynesia, Seychelles; — var. Quoyanus: Philippines, 

 Moluccas, New Guinea. 



(166) Li. Maiimanni, C. Chf., Ind. Fil. ; Heleronevrm Naumanni, 

 Kuhn, Forschr. Gaz., IV, Fame, 5, tab. I ; Gymnopteris Naumanni, Diets, Sebum. 

 & Laut., Flor. deut. Sch.geb., 117. 



Rhizome creeping, elongate, clothed like the base of the stipes with lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, ferrugineous 'scales. Fronds distichous, pinnate, pinnatiiid 

 towards the often proliferous apex. Stipes of barren fronds 18 — 24 cJI. 

 long, stramineous, deeply sulcate, sparingly scaly. Fronds 25 — 47 c.M. long, 

 14 — 22 c.M. broad, oblong, acuminate. Lower pinnae stalked, 9 — 13 c.M. 

 long, + 2 c.M. broad, lanceolate-acuminate, subpinnatifid, the apex sharply 

 serrate, the base cuneate ; higher pinnae sessile, highest confluent. Lobes 

 oblong, toothed, the lower anterior teeth produced. Texture subchartaceous ; 

 surfaces naked; colour greenish-opaque; costulae prominent; areolae distinct, 

 lax, appendiculate. Fertile fronds 50 — 55 c.M. long, 18—20 c.M. broad, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, on stipes to + 42 c.M. long; lower segments 

 subpeliolate, higher ones sessile, the longest 10 — 1^ c.M. long, + 1 c.M. 

 broad, lobato-pinnatifid, acuminate; lobes ovate or elongate, entire; areolae in 

 1 row on each side of the costulae. 



New Guinea; New ffannover. 



(17) li. Zollingeri, F'ee, Gen., 55; Acrostichum subrepandum. Ilk., 

 Hk. Bk., Spi. Fil., 419; Gymnopteiis subrepanda, J. Sm., Copel., Polypod. Phi- 

 lipp., 45; Poecilopleria subrepanda, Pr., Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCCXXXIX; 

 Aavslichum Zollingeri, Kze, (oldest name). 



Rhizome woody, wide-creeping. Stipes of barren fronds stout, erect, 



