156 



PLE0PELT1S. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 57.) 



PLEOPELTIS PALM ATA (Bl.) Caudex creeping ferruginous with copious large glossy lanceolate long acuminated scales, 

 stipites a span to a foot and more long slender, fronds 6-8 inches long subcoriaceo -membranaceous glabrous broad-ovate acuminate 

 cuneate attenuated at the base deeply pinnatiiid or not unfrequently decurrently pinnate or truly pinnate with the always sessile or more 

 or less decurrent pinnae or segments 3-12 5-6 inches long alternate with very obtuse sinuses terminal one the largest ; sterile ones 1-2 

 inches wide broad lanceolate ; fertile ones generally longer, all of them contracted near the base very finely and subcordately acumi- 

 nated entire, pinnate veins very manifest extending nearly to the margin united by very slender indistinct venules which form 3-4 

 areoles in which are included free incurved clavate veinlets, sori in a single series. Hook. Sp. FiL v. 89 ; BL Fil, Jav. p, 150 t, 64 

 (not iY,)— Drynaria J. Sm. ; Ployp : Lindleyanum Wall. Gat. n t 304. Pbymatodes Meyeniana, Pmh 



The specimen -figured is from Singapore, 



Hab. Java, Island of Ternate, Luzon, Singapore, Penang* 



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