Polypodium. | CXLVII. FILIOES. 765 
ni Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Daintree e is Fitzalan ; Brisbane 
m D n Bay, F. Mueller ; South Queens sland, Hartm 
. Wales. É Jackson to the Blue Mo untains, R. "Ho E ME Me i dens 
a ^d others ; New England, €. Stuart; Richmond and Clarence m vers, W. Hill 
E Eos ers ; escis. Ls "John Lord Howe' s Island, Fuliagar 
oria. Gram , Danden Ranges, Bunip Creek, Upper Loddon River 
etc., F. Mueller NER oles hy E A z n 
Ta asmania. King’ rr R. Brown; abundant in damp and rather dry woods, 
J. D. Hooker, 
Extends over the veins - icta: HR regions of the Old World, 
reaching northwards to Ja uires some care to distinguish the specimens 
om those of Hy dum Medis. pote bad the fructification i the 
position ofthe sori on a nerve at some distance from the margin, is very different from 
that of Hy upolepis, ini it is rnea marginal with the recurved indusium very dis- 
tinct when young. 
SERIES II. SYNNEURA. = pinnate under each lobe of the 
pinnee, the branches simple, uniting with corresponding branches of 
the vein of the adjoining lobe. ‘Sor usually placed towards the end of 
the upper branches of the series. 
7. P. proliferum, Presl; Spec. Filie. v. 18, Syn. Filic. 
Hook. Sp 
315.— F ronds usually weak and spreading z often rile at the 
in full fruit much 
smaller, pinnate. Pinne lanceolate, 1 to ef in. long in Australian 
d with obtuse rounded lobes 
specimens, shortly and regularly pinnatifi 
sometimes almost reduced to crenatures, 
Veins pinnate to each lobe, the branches or vein 
uniting in a vein leading to the sinus as int 
Aspidium. Sori in 2 rows to each lobe, sometimes only at the end 
sometimes reaching almost to the midrib of the pinne.—F. Muel 
Fragm. v. 128 ; Meniscium prolifer wm, Hook. 2nd Cent. Ferns, t. "m ; 
Goniopteris prolifera, Presl; Bail. Queensl. Ferns, 40. 
N. Australia. Albert River, Landsborough. 3 
"atero Mount Mu pm IB neq m Bay, Dallaehy ; Mount oi 
and Port Denison, Fitzalan ; r River, Hahn's Expedition ; Rockhamp 
O'Shaneay ; ; Brisbane River, err 
N. S. Wales. Clarence River, Herb. F, Mueller. 
Dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa and in New Caledonia. 
v. 9, Syn. Filie. 314. 
—Fronds 2 to 4 ft. long on à dps often nearly as long, p more 
or less glandular-pubescent underneath. Pinn in. to nearly 1 ft. 
crenate or 
long, 1 to 2 in. broad, acuminate, regularly iid broadly 
shortly lobed, rounded or truncate at the base. Prim ins leading 
to the lobes numerous and parallel, pinnate, the easel ES venules 
orbicular in 
IUE in an interm 
2 regular rows between each 2 primary veius, extending from the mid- 
