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The name of its original discoverer, and who first communicated living 

 plants to our Garden, had previously been given to a Leguminous plant 

 by Mr. Bentham, see Journ. of Bot. iv. (1852), p. 75; and we now 

 dedicate this curious genus to C. J. Braine, Esq., from whom we have 

 also received living plants. 



1. Niphobolus carnosus, BL Fil. Jav. p. 50. t. 19. 

 Hab. South China, Seemann. 



A species remarkable for the short, obtuse, spathulate sterile fronds, 

 and the elongated, linear, obtuse fertile ones, but we possess forms 

 which seem to connect this with the following, N. pertusus, Spr. 



2. Niphobolus pertusus, Spr. Polypodium pertusum, Boxb. Hook. Ex. 

 FL t. 162. N. varius, Kaulf. — Blume, Fil. Jav. p. 54. t. 21. 

 Hab. Chusan and Foo-chow-foo, Mr. Alexander. Hongkong, Col. 



CJiampion, n. 300. 

 A common form of Niphobolus, well represented in the c Exotic Flora' 



and in Blume's Fil. Jav., but this passes insensibly into others, whicli 



are by some considered distinct species. 



3. Niphobolus Lingua, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv. p. 45. — Kunze in Schick. 

 Fil. Suppl. p. 144. t. 63. Polypodium Lingua, Sw., TFilld. Langsd. 

 et Fisch. Ic. Fil. p. 7. t. 5. Acrostichum Lingua, Thunb. Fil. Jap. 

 p. 330. t. 33. — Schk. Fil. 1. 1. tolycampium, Fred, Epimel. Bot. 135. 

 Hab. Nangasaki, Japan, Miss Nelson, Mr. Babington. Hongkong, 



Dr. Harland. 



4. Niphobolus hastatus, Kze. in Bot. Zeit. vi. (1848) p. 505. — Fee, 



Gen. Fil. p. 263. Polypodium tricuspe, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 30. — JFilld. 

 Sp. PI. v.p. 63. — Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv. p. 49. Acrostichum has- 

 tatum, Thunb. FL Jap. p. 331. t. 34. Polycampium hastatum, 



Presl, Epimel. Bot. p. 137. 



Hab. Japan (Fusi-a-Falcon), Thunberg. Southern part of Korea, 



Br. Clarke (in Herb. Harland). 



This has every appearance of a true Niphobolus, as far as can be 

 judged without investigating the venation, which can only be done by 

 sacrificing our specimens of a very rare plant, and with difficulty then. 

 Presl refers it to his new genus Polycampium, but remarks, " Prater 

 iconem non vidi .- haec quemadmodum Swartzii verba speciem Nipho- 



bolaceam indicant." 



1. Pleopeltis nuda, Hook. Ex. Flora, t. M. Lepisorus nudus, ./. 8m. 



Polypodium Wightianum, Wall. 



