746 86a. leptochilos. § 2. chrtsodidm. 



or rather long stipe. Texture papyraceous ; surfaces naked ; areolae copi 

 with abundant free veinlets. Fertile fronds 15 — 30 c.M. long, S'/j — 7'/ji 

 broad, flexuose, on stipes 2'/j — 15 cM. long. 

 Trop. Asia. 



* (24) li. Raapii, ». A. e. n., ^ull. Dep Agr. I. N., 1908, X' 

 27, tab. VIII. 



Rhizome erect, clothed with densely crowded, erect, linear-lancet 

 scales with a dark-brown longitudinal axis and a pale-brown margin. St 

 densely tufted, 15—50 cM. long, naked, firm, erect, those of the fertile fn 

 the longest. Fronds dimorphous. Barren fronds simple or some of them 

 nate, the simple ones ovate-elongate, + entire, 12 — 20 c.M. long, 3 — 4 

 broad, broadest near the + rounded or hroadly cuneate base, narrowed 

 dually towards the short-acuminate point, the ternate ones with the segm^ 

 similar to the simple fronds, but smaller. Texture flaccido-coriaceous ; su 

 ces naked; veins prominent, reticulate as in Acrostichum aureum, L. Fei 

 fronds ternate, the segments stalked, linear, + 4 — 6 c M. long, ± 5 n 

 broad, acute. Sori occupying the whole under surface except the midribs 

 edges. 



Batu Islands (Raap). 



S 5. LO M AGRAM H A. 



jf:. Texture membranaceous. Pinnae serrate. (25) L. Iqmefnoi 



^.^. Texture suhcoiiaceous. Pinnae entire or obscurely crenate. 



L. perakei 



• (25) Wj. loiuarioides, Bl.,Etma., 206; Acrostichum Blumean 

 Hk., Rac, Flor; Btz., I, 55, p. f.;Ai^1omarioides, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 1 

 Lomagramme lomarioides, J. Sny^edi., Handb. Ind. Ferns, Suppl., 106 ; G 

 nopteris lomarioides, Chnsf^^xAX. Herb. Boiss., 2« Serie, I, 456; — var. 

 roides; Lorn, pterou^/f. Sm., Journ. of Bot., Ill, 402; Ban. & Hk., Gen. 1 

 tab. XCVIII; —^/<^x. subcoriacea, Gopel., Philipp. Journ., Ill, 32. 



RhKOjB€''^wide-scandent, the scales lanceolate. Stipes 15—30 c.M. li 

 decidjjotKly scaly. Bai-ren fronds 30—100 c.M. long. Pinnae numerous, 

 j j i toT PTtioulatnj ratbor falcatoj 6 30 cM , long, 1'/^ ^V;, c . M . b roa d , tho I 



