756 CXLYI1L FILICES. [Aspidium. 
glabrous or minutely pnbescente Pinne membranous, usually 6 to 8 
in. long and about $ in. broad, mostly petiolate, the lower ones scarcely 
smaller, the lobes HUS about $ way to the midrib. Sori rather 
large, in close marginal row 4 Indusium orbicular-reniform.— Nephro- 
dium terminans, Hook. Spec. Filic. iv. 73 ; JV. pteroides, J. Sm. ; Hook. 
and Bak, Syn. Filic. 289. 
Queensland, Rockingham Bay, Dal/achy, 
Spread over tropical Asia and the Pacific Islands, 
6. A. molle, Swartz, Syn. Filic. 49.—Rhizome short and thick. 
Fronds 1 to 2 ft. long on a stipes often as long, simply pinnate, 
glabrous or hirsute, usually of a light green. Pinnze penes the 
longer ones 3 to 6 in. long or even more, often acuminate, regularly 
dA Sem the lobes sometimes short sometimes reaching above halfway 
to the midrib, the pinne truncate at the base, mostly sessile, the 
a vein ten o the sinus, Sori usually in a row about halfway 
between the midrib of the lobe and the margin. Indusium orbicular- 
reniform, soon disappearing.—F. Mu Fragm. v. 135; Polypodium 
molle, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 640; Nephrodium molle, rod. 149; 
a Spec. Filic. iv. 67, Syn. Filic. 293; Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. 
N. ae Johnstone Bist Gulliver, 
Quee York Pen N Taylor; Rockingham Bay, y. Hil, 
Dali leche aue Woolis ; "2n MCulivra ; Port Denison and Daintree 
d Fitzalan ; Éoskbimitoi: onec. O Shanesy ; Moreton Bay, £F. Mueller, C. 
N.S Wales. Blue Mountains, R. Brown ; New England, C. Stuart ; Hastings, 
Macleay and Clarence Rivers, Beckley and others ; Richmon d River, Mrs. Hodgkin- 
son ; Iawarrå, Johnson ; Lord Howe’s Island, C. M. 
Var. didymosorus. Soril or 2 to each lobe and only at the junction of the low est 
veinlets of adjoining lobes.— NepArodium didi ymosorum, Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 
200.—Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
The genus is spread over tropical Asia and Africa and the Pacific Islands. 
7. A. truncatum, Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 332, t. 10.—Very 
closely allied to A. molle, and difficult to distinguish by any positive 
characters. Usually a larger plant, the fronds often 4 or 5 ft. high and 
sometimes more, the larger pinne 6 in. to 1 ft. long, the lobes more 
obtuse, often quite truncate.— Nephrodium truncatum, Presl; Hook. 
and Bak. Syn. Filic. stg N. abruptum, Presl; Hook. Spec. Filic. iv. 
= t. ^ Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t. 86 $ Aspidium extensum, F. Mu ell, 
F . Y. 135, but scarcely of Blume. 
is poten dou rt Sag à from Rockingham Bay is referred here by Baker but 
