358 FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 



accords with our present specimen. But neither does Presl, who ap- 

 pears to have had imperfect specimens, nor Mettenius (Fil. Hort. Bot. 

 Lips. p. 37), who seems to have had an entire specimen, notice the pe- 

 culiar form of the base of the frond, where the segments are contracted 

 and decurrent, becoming more dilated at the very base, forming, one 

 might say, a very broad wing at the base of the stipes (4-5 inches 

 across), of a brown colour, and more pellucid than the rest of the frond ; 

 in short, of the same nature as the sterile frond of Brynaria querci- 

 folia : there the two kinds of frond are distinct, here they are united 

 into one. The specimen before us, from Hongkong, is nearly three 

 feet long, and is yet destitute of its apex. 

 1. Nothochlsena pilosa, Hook, et Arn. Bot. of Beechey's Voy. p. 74 



and 255. 



Hab. Hongkong, Br. Bill. 

 1. Selliguea decurrens, Presl. Grammitis decurrens, Wall. — Hook, et 



Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 6. Colysis pothifolia, Pr. ; Fee. Hemionitis po- 



thifolia, Bon, Prodr. Nep.p. 13. 



Hab. Foo-chow-foo, Mr. Alexander. Hongkong, Colonel Champion, 

 Br. Harland. 



The specimens are smaller than the plant figured in the c Icones Fili- 

 cum,' from Nepal, and the frond is more deeply pinnatifid almost to 

 the rachis, quite pinnate below. 

 L Drymoglossum carnosum, Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 78 A. Notochlfena 



(Tsenitis?) carnosa, Wall. Cat. n. 138. Lemmaphyllum carnosum 



(et L. spathulatum ?), Presl, Epimel. Drymoglossum subcordatum, 



Pee, Gen. Fil. t. 9 A. /. 1. Pteris piloselloides, Thunb. Jap. p. 331. 

 Ic. Sel. Plant. Kcempf. t. 31. — Kcempf. Arncen. Exot. p. 887. 



Hab. South China, Seemann. Pih-quan, Mr. Alexander. Hong- 

 kong, /. C. Bowring, n. 18. Nangasaki, Japan (Babington). 



This is a very different Fern from the Brymoglossum piloselloides of 

 Presl, being much smaller, and having the lines of fructification not 

 marginal but between the costa and the midrib. On this account Presl 

 has made of this and his supposed species, B. spathulatum, the genus 



LemmavJivllum (v. his 'Fnimfilin "Rntaninn ' ahnvo nnrhforft 



/ > 



M. Fee's 



figure of his Brym. subcordatum exactly agrees with our specimens of 

 carnosum. The fertile fronds vary in their more or less spathulate 

 form, and in being more or less stipitate. The fertile fronds are sessile 

 or petiolate, oval, ovate, or cordate, or orbicular. It is more than pro- 



