ACROSTICHEZÆ. | 
* * * Veins reticulated. 
B, Fronds fertile on the upper pinne. 
PHOTINOPTERIS. J. Sm. Hook. Journ. of Bot-iii, 408 —iv. 65. 
pying the under surface of the contracted upper pinnæ. Vem ۱ 
Gen, Char. Sori superficial, non-indusiate ; the receptacles occu 
g in unequal sub-hexagonal areoles, and producing divaricate 
pinnate from a central costa, prominent ; venules transversely anastomosin 
secondary veinlets, which are clavate at the apex, and free within the ultimate areoles. 
Fronds pinvate coriaceous, fertile and contracted in the upper part, pinnæ articulate, auriculeform on the lower side at the 
base. Rhizome scandent, (Moore). 
PHOTINOPTERIS RIGIDA. (Wall) Caudex repent or scandent paleaceous with elongated brown subulate fringed scales 
mixed with hair-like ones in age albo-glaucescent, stipites short nearly as thick as a writing-pen, fronds 13-2-3 feet long broad-lanceo- 
late, very hard-coriaceous glossy pinnate ; sterile pinnæ long-petiolate, distant 3.6 inches and more long, broad ovate acuminate, the apex 
generally caudate and curved upwards, venation manifest elevated on both sides, costules subflexuose united by transverse veins into four- 
angled areoles which are again divided into lesser areoles including branched free clavate veinlets, petioles articulated on the rachis and 
dilated into a large orbicular scutiform base ; sometimes these sterile pinnz occupy the whole frond, more frequently the rachis is sud- 
denly elongated at the apex and bears 1-12-18 distant very contracted narrow-linear and fertile pinne from 5-12 inches long soriferous 
except on the costa and on the slightly revolute margin. Hook. Sp. Fil. 7. 281. Wall, Cat. n. 27 (1822) :—Lomaria speciosa, Bl. Fil. آ‎ 
Jav. p. 202. Photinopteris simplex J. Sm. ;—P. Horsfieldii, J. Sm. (no description or character). Hook. Gen, Fil. t, 99. Pr.—Moore— M 
Brack.—Feé, Acrost p. 102. t. 63. ۱ 
` The specimen figured is from Singapore. 
Hab. Singapore, Java, Mindora, and Isle of Bohol, Labuan, Luzon, Isle of Panay. 
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