FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 339 



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4. Lastrea podophylla , Hook. Journ. Bot. v. (1853) p. 236. t. 1. 



Hort. Lips. p. 87. t. 20./ 



Major 



14. 



Mr 



Mr 



Veins sometimes confluent. If the Aspidium Sieboldi (from Japan) 

 of Mettenius, who has given an excellent description in the work above 

 quoted, be specifically the same as our Lastrea podophylla, it is a re- 

 markable variety, with broader pinnse, more cordate at the base. 

 5. Lastrea opaca, n. sp. ; frondibus subcoriaceis deltoideo-acuminatis 

 opacis glabris pinnatis basi tripinnatis, pinnis lanceolatis acuminatis 

 profunde pinnatifidis subiterim pinnatis, laciniis oblongis subfalcatis 

 . obsoletissime serratis acutiusculis, pinnarum inferiorum pinnulis in- 

 fimis longioribus, soris uniserialibus inter costam et marginem, venis 

 immersis obsoletis, stipite rachibusque pallide fascia nitidis paleaceo- 



setosis. 



Hab. Hongkong and mainland north-west of Hongkong, /. C. Bow- 

 man, Esq. China, Br. Abel. Ghusan, Tui 

 T. Alexander. Nangasaki, Japan, Mr. Babington. 



This Fern appears to be an entirely undescribed one, with somewhat 

 of the habit of Polystichum coriaceum, for the fronds are more than 

 usually coriaceous for a Lastrea, yet not glossy, as in so many of the 

 Polysticha. They are a foot to a foot and a half long ; the stipes in 

 all my specimens is broken, but what remains of it and the rachises 

 are clothed with subulate, appressed, membranaceous scales. The sori 

 are moderately large ; the involucre reddish-brown, reniform. 

 1. Nephrolepis tuberosa, Presl. — Aspidium 



v. p. 234. 



Hab. South China, Seemann, n. 2388. Chusan, and everywhere 



along the coast, Mr. T. Alexander. Hongkong, Major Champion, n. 



550. 



Such of our Chinese specimens as have the roots and the stolones, 



bear tubers ; but the fronds seem to differ in nothing from the South 



American N. exaltata. 



1. Polystichum vestitum? Aspidium vestitum, Schkuhr, Ml. t. 43. 



Hab. Hongkong, Major Champion, n. 297. 



This plant is too young to determine accurately. The young invo- 

 lucres, though peltate, are not orbicular, but have a sinus on one side, 

 so as to be orbiculari-reniform. 



mud. 



