3) 
FILICES. 653 
3. Nephrolepis exaltata, Schott ; Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. p. 152; Hook. et Bak. 
Syn. Fil. p. 301; Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 180; Eaton, Ferns N. Am. ii. p. 129, 
t. 63. figg. 1-4. 
Nephrodium exaltatum, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 21. 
Aspidium exaltatum, Schkuhr, Krypt. Gewich. t. 32. 
Nephrolepis volubilis, J. Sm., teste Hook. et Bak. 
Nephrolepis neglecta, Kunze in Linnza, xiii. p. 148; Fée, 9° Mém. Foug. 
Fioripa.—Hacienda de la Laguna (Schiede), Hacienda de Jovo (Liebmann : neglecta) ; 
GuaTEMALA, Mazatenango (Bernoulli & Cario, 374: volubilis) ; NicaRacua, Chontales 
(Lévy, 485); Panama, Chagres (Fendler, 418), Barbacoas (S. Hayes, 171).—Banamas to 
Perv, and widely spread in the Tropics of the Old World. Hb. Kew. 
Fournier (Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xix. p. 260) refers Levy’s 485 to N. pendula, Fée, 
a synonym of WV. exaltata. 
30. OLEANDRA. 
Oleandra, Cav. ; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 302, t. 5. fig. 46. 
Six species, widely spread in the Tropics. 
1. Oleandra nodosa, Presl; Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. p. 127; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. 
p- 303. 
Guatemala, Yzabal (Bernoulli, 871; Godman & Salvin). —West INDIES, common ; 
Guiana; Braziu. Hb. Kew. 
Barter and Mann’s West-African specimens, referred to this species in ‘Species 
Filicum,’ are the O. articulata, 8. welwitschii, Baker, of the ‘ Synopsis Filicum.’ 
Tribe XI. POLYPODIEA. 
Limited to the genus Polypodium. 
31. POLYPODIUM. 
Polypodium, Linn. ; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 304, et ed. 2, p. 504, t. 5. fig. 48. 
As defined in the ‘Synopsis Filicum’ this is by far the largest genus of the Order, 
numbering at least 450 species, spread nearly a1 over the world. 
1. Polypodium (Goniophlebium) adnatum, Kunze in Linnea, xx. p- 398; 
Hook. Sp. Fil. v. p. 27; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 345. 
Panama, Aspinwall (S. Hayes, 153).—West Inpies ; CoLoMBIA; VENEZUELA; GUIANA. 
Hb. Kew. 
This is recorded from Guatemala both in the ‘Species Filicum’ and the ‘ Synopsis 
Filicum ;’ but the specimens have probably been removed to another species in the 
Kew Herbarium, for we failed to find any under this. 
