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108 VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMIA OF NEW GUINEA.
and reaching nearly to the edge.—Mount Knutsford. Stands on
the hne of boundary between Polypodium, section Granunitis and
Gijwnnfiranone, as understood in ' Synopsis Filicum.'
I\ diminutum. Baker?—Mount Knutsford and Mount Victoria.
Differs a little from the Lord Howe's Island plant in paleae, stipe
and sori, and is perhaps a distinct species.
110.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) scabristipes Baker n. sp.
—Rootstock not seen. Stipe brown, wiry, scabrous, 2-3 in. long.
Frond simple, linear, entire, 5-6 in. long, ^ in. broad at the
middle, thick, rigid, nearly glabrous, narrrowed to the baye.
Veins forked, erecto-patent. Sori oblong, oblique, rather immersed,
Y^^ "^- lo^o> placed in a row nearer the midrib than the
edge.—Near the summit of the Owen Stanley range. Near the
Malayan F.fasciatum Mett.
111.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) locellatum Baker, n. sp.
Eliizome shoit-creeping, ^ in. thick, densely clothed with small
ovate-lanceolate pale-brown pale^e. Stipes slender, naked, wiry,
erect, 2-3 in. long. Fronds simple, linear, entire, glabrous, thick,
rigid, 5-6 in. long, ^ in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to
the base and apex. Veins hidden. Sori oblong, oblique, immersed
in deep pits, forming a long row nearer the midrib than the
margin.—Mount Victoria. Very distinct in Folypudium, section
(jfraiiiviitts, by its deeply immersed sori.
133.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) Musgravianum Baker,
n. sp.— Stipes tufted, very slender, nearly naked, -|-1 in. long.
Fronds linear, 1-1^ in. long, ^ in. broad, firm, glabrous, cut down
to the rachis into ovate adnate erecto patent pinnse, with a single
large globose superficial sorus at the base. Veins forked.— Mount
Musgrave, 7000-8000 ft. Allied to P. truJiowonoides and ex'ujuum.
P. blecknuides Hook.—Near the summit of Owen Stanley range.
(Queenshmd and Polynesia).
1\ ohlupuitHiir Blume.—New Guinea highlands, 9200 ft.
India, Ceylon, Philippines, Malay isles).
(South
141.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) undosum Baker, n. sp.
Rootstock not seen. Stipe naked, wiry, 1-li in. long. Fronds
pendulous, lanceolate, glabrous, simply pinnate, coriaceous, 5-6 in.
long, ^ in. broad, cut down to the rachis into numerous adnate
non-coutiguous obtuse subtrapezoid pinnae, jj-k hi. broad, deeidy
crenate, especially on the upper margin. Veins hidden. Soii
globose, s.qierficial, when mature filling nearly the whole surface
of the pinna).— Mount Musgrave. Near P. Grdiiiuiltidis R. Br.
168.* Polypodium (Eupolypodium) davalliaceum. F. M. and
Baker, n. sp.—Rhizome short-creeping, J^ ^^^- thick, clothed with
small brown ovate-lanceolate palei^. Stipes wiry, naked, 1-2 in.
long. Fronds coriaceous, glabrous, lanceolate, simply pinnate,
6-8 in. long, under an inch broad, cut down to the rachis into
adnate lanceolate or obliquely
entiie or obscurely crenate on
cuneate pinnas ^^^* iV~tV hroad,
the upper edge. Veins hidden.
Sori solitary, immersed near the tip of the pnma) with the edge
folded round them and the tip of the pinna protruding beyond
them.—Mount Victoria and near the summit of the Owen Stanley