762 90. ANGIOPTERIS. 



•{•. Fronds simply pinnate. (1) A. Smithii. 



+.•}•. Fronds 2 — 3-pinnate. 



^. Pinnulae peclinaio-serrate, the teeth carlilagitieous. (2) A. cavtilagidens. 



>(c.^. Pinnulae entire, crenate, serrate or toothed, the teeth not cartilagineous. 



(3) A. evecta. 



• (1) A. Sinitliii, K«c., Bull. Ac. Crac, 4902, 54. 

 ^Caudex very short, + 10 c.iM. thick. Fronds large, ± I'/a— S'/a M. high 

 (incl. the stipe), simply pinnate. Pinnae 5 — 10 or more on each side, shorl- 

 stalked, articulate, ovate-oblong, 20—40 c.M. long, 5—10 c.M. broad in the 

 lower half, the base obliquely or unequally rounded or subcordate, the edge 

 entire, the upper half narrowed gradually to the acuminate apex. Texture 

 flaccido-coriaceous ; upper surface naked, dark-green, lower pale-green, minu- 

 tely and sparingly scaly, nearly naked; costae prominent on both sides; veins 

 numerous, generally forked, upcurved, rather spreading at the base, oblique 

 towai'ds the apex; recurrent veinlets wanting. Sori close, submarginal, the 

 largest consisting of ± 20 — 30 capsules. 



.'' Malayan. 



(2) A. cartilagidens, Cfcr<«#,' Bull. Herb. Boiss., VI, 207; A. 

 cartilaginea, Christ, 1. c, tab. IV, fig. 8, a — d. 



Like A. evecta, Hoffm., but the fronds larger, to 5 M. long; rachis 

 dark-purple, covered with oblong, subulate, spinuloso-ciliate scales, the ciliae 

 geminate. Pinnulae close, sessile or short-stalked, linear-lanceolate, 10 c.M 

 or more long, ± 1 c.M. broad, the margin pectinato-serrate with the teeth 

 oblique or spreading, 72 — 1 mM. long, the apex acuminate, the base equally 

 rounded or cuneate on both sides or the upper base truncate. Texture veiy 



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coriaceous, the teetb — •ii-.-^^nn.io. cnT-raops na 

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beneath with small, |j \ :=?::;: 



spreading, with spurious veins. Son not cionugUofls, "small 

 Luzon. 



costae and veins covered 

 ^lumerous, conspicuous. 



• (3) A. evecta, Moffm., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 1 ; Bedd., Ferns S.I., 

 lab. LXXVIII; Hk., Fil Exot., tab. LXXV; Poly podium evectum, Forst., (oldest 

 name). See the Appendix. ^ 



Caudex erect, semiglobose, to + 50 c.M. thick. Stipes long, articulate 

 at the base, flanked by 2 large, persistent, leathery stipulae. Fronds large. 



