FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 357 



Hab. Hongkong, /. C. Bowring, Esq. 



Only three specimens of this small but peculiar-looking plant are in 

 the collection. The colour, especially on the under side, is a bright 

 green, above darker-coloured, and minutely dotted with black points, 

 indicating the clavate termination of the free veinlets in the areoles. 

 The apex of the fertile specimens beneath is occupied by from four to 

 eight large almost orange-coloured orbicular sori in two rows, closely 

 placed, and each row or series occupying the whole space between the 

 cost a and the margin. There are no scales in the sori, as in the Pleo- 

 peltis-grouip . Mr. Smith considers it allied to his Drynaria (or Phy- 

 matodes) stenophylla of Cuming's collection (n. 122), of which Fee says, 

 " An genus distinctum ?" 

 6. Drynaria tridactylis, Fee. Poly podium tridactylon, Wall, in Hook. 



et Grev. Ic. Ml. tf. 209. 



Hab. Hongkong, Colonel Champion. 



Wal 



lick; and of Mishmee {Mr. Griffith). 



7. Drynaria hastata, Fee. — Asa Gray in Williams and Morrow 's Ja% 

 PI. p. 329. Polypodium hastatum, Thunb. Tl. Jap. p. 335. t. 34. 

 Ic. PI. Jap. iii. t. 10. — Kunze in Schkuhr, Til. Suppl. p. 198. t. 83. 

 Hab. Nangasaki, Japan, Thunberg, Goring (Mr. Babington). 



A very well-marked species, of a glaucous-green colour, well figured 

 both by Thunberg in his ' Icones/ and by Kunze in his Supplement to 

 Schkuhr's 'Filices/ which is more than can be said of the figure in 



' Flora Japonica.' 



8. Drynaria quercifolia, Bory. — Tee, Gen. Til. p. 271. Polypodium 



quercifolium, SchJc. 



Hab. Foo-chow-foo, and on rocks and walls, covering the old Fort 



Mr 



Wall 



9. Drynaria coronans, J. Sm. Polypodium coronans, 



Drynaria morbillosa, Presl, Pterid. p. 197. Polypodium morbillo- 



sum, Presl, Reliq. Rank. i. p. 22. t. 3./. 3. 



Hab. Lung-tong; mainland, north-west from Hongkong, /. C. Bow- 

 ring, Esq. 



This species has long been distributed among botanists under the 

 name of Polypodium coronans, and it is cultivated in gardens under the 

 name of Pol. (Drynaria) morbillosum of Presl, whose figure of a seg- 

 ment of a frond (from Java) in the ' Reliquiae Hsenkeanae/ sufficiently 



