354 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 



of Sylhet," under the name of his printed catalogue of P. tenericaule, 

 and it is found from the Concan in the West, to Assam, and Mishmee, 

 and Sincapore, and the Malay Islands, and China, in the East. Cu- 

 ming's Philippine-Island sets exhibit it under Nos. 1, 75, 114, 212, 

 355, and 412! Nos. 1, 75, and 412, Mr. J. Smith referred to a 

 species he possessed in his herbarium, named P. trichodes by Eein- 

 wardt, but this is nowhere published : and he makes the observation, 

 " This agrees with Polypodium ornatum of Wallich, which is probably 

 not distinct from Polypodium rugulosum of Labillardiere. The latter 



i, but R. ornatum of Wallich, with many points 

 in common, yet I think possesses sufficiently distinguishing marks. 

 The two agree in the form of the pinnules and lobes, and in the lax, 

 white, patent, glistening hairs of the rachises : — but P. ornatim* is 

 a much larger plant, with long primary pinnae ; pinnae and pinnules 

 spreading horizontally, the segments narrow ; but above all, the stout 

 stipes and the principal rachises are partially paleaceous, with lanceo- 

 late scales, and always muricated." 

 1. Meniscium simplex, Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1842. t. 11. 



Hab. Chusan, JR. B. Hinds, Esq., Alexander. Hongkong, Colonel 

 Champion, Seemann, J. C. Boicring, Esq., n. 8, Br. Harland. 



Dr. Harland's specimens are more hastate than those figured in Lond. 

 Journ. Bot., from Mr. Hinds ; but in other respects the same. 

 1. Brainea insignis, Hook, Bowringia insignis, Hook. Journ. of Bot. 



Vi.p. 237. t 2. 



Hab. Hongkong, Messrs. Bowring, Major Champion, n. 294, 295. 

 (Dr. Hooker detected it in the Khasya hills, Eastern Bengal.) 



This remarkable plant, of which we have now seen specimens with 

 the fructifications by no means confined (as represented in the ' Journal 

 of Botany,' 1. c.) to the venation next the midrib, has a stout, arbo- 

 rescent caudex, in our stove, 2 feet long, and as thick as one's arm. 



* Thi9 species may be thus distinguished : — 

 Polypodium (Phegopteris) ornatum, Wall. ; 3-4-pedale et ultra, fronde amplissima 

 3-5-pmnata submembranacea (siccitate fuscescente) glabra, pinnis plerisque sessili- 

 bus honzontaliter patentibus, idtunis lanceolato-acuminatis pectinato-pinnatifidis 

 lacimis oblongo-hnearibus obtusis dentatis plurisoris, stipite bi-tripedali crasso in- 

 sigmter squamoso rachibusque palhde : fuscis parce squamosis muricatis, costis sub- 

 tus prseeipue pdis longis patentibus albis villosis 



