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Florula Hongkoxgensis : an Enumeration of the Plants collected 

 in the Island of Hongkong, by Major J. G. Champion, 95<A Regt. ; 



new 



Bentham, Esq. 



{Continued from p i, 344.) 



The Pilices ; by Sir W. J. Hooker. 



POLYPODIACEJ!. 



Polypodies. 



1. Poly podium vulgar e y Linn. 



Has. Hakodadi, Japan, Br. Baine, of H.M. Sybille fin Herb. Ear- 

 land). 



This corresponds with the narrow form of North America. The 

 sori are copious and confluent, the veins obscure. Costa of the sub- 

 spathulate segments slender, black on the under side. 



2. Polypodium (Phegopteris) rugulosum* Lab. Nov. Holl. ii. p. 92. 

 t. 241. — Hook. Fl. Nov. Zeal. ii. p. 41. P. viscidum, Spr. 



Hab. Chusan, Alexander. , 



This has a very close affinity to certain states of Hypolepis tenuifolia ; 

 see our remarks under that species, in the Gen. et Sp. Fil. ii. p. 61. 

 Our present plant has no trace of an involucre, and is identical with 

 the P. rugulosum, Labill. — A native of various warm countries. 

 3. Polypodium (Phegopteris) tenei'icaule, Wall. ; sesquipedale ad bipe^ 



* 



dalem, fronde ovato-acuminata bi-tripinnata submembranacea sicci- 

 tate fuscescente glabra, pinnis plerisque sessilibus sursum curvatis, 

 primariis longe subcaudato-acuminatis, secundariis pinnulisque line- 

 ari-lanceolatis profunde pinnatifidis, laciniis anguste ovatis margini- 

 bus (in sicco recurvis) 2-6-soris, stipite elongato basi paleaceo rachi 

 primariaque pallide fuscis nitidis lsevibus, pinnaium rachibus ubique 

 alatis costisque subtus pilis longis patentibus albis villosis. — Polypo- 

 dium tenuicaule, Wall. Cat. n. 335. Polypodium trichodes, Reinw. 

 Herb, fide J. Sm. En. Fil. Philip, in Hook. Journ. of Bot. m. p. 394 

 {name only). 



Hab. China, Mr. Alexander. 



As far as my researches have gone, 1 can find no description of this 

 common and well-marked Indian Pern. Dr. Wallich distributed this 

 species among the very earliest of his collections from the " mouutaius 



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