772 OXLVII. FILIOES. [ Polypodium. 
Blume, Fl. Jav. Filic. t. 77 ; Pleopeltis irioides, T. Moore ; Bedd. Ferns 
S. Ind. t. 178. 
Queensland. Shoalwater and Keppel Bays and Broad per. iA p 1; Cape 
York, W. Hill, Gulliver ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy (some of his specimens with 
rather larger sori) ; Rockhampton, Boewan: Dallachy, O Shanesy y; Morèton Bay. 
F. Mueller, Bailey. 
Spreads over tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa and the Pacific Islands. 
P. quercifolium, Linn. ; Hook. Spec. Filic. v. 96, Syn. Filic. 
jn Fronde of two kinds. ee ones 2 to 3 ft. long, deeply pinna- 
art ; segments lanceolate, 6 to 9 n. long, + to 14 in. broa ecurrent 
the rhachis and usually Sonthaent into a broad w wing but sometimes 
Sha ted between the lower segments, thin but usually rigid, very 
prominently and copiously reticulate, but the free veinlets within the 
areoles small and rare. Sori small, scattered, few or numerous. Barren 
ronds sessile, short broad and shortly pinnatifid as in P. rigidulum.— 
P. Linnei, Bory, Hook. and Bak. Syn. Filic. 368; Bedd. bug ur 
Ind. t. 315; Drynaria quercifolia, J. Sm. ; Bedd. Ferns, S. Ind. t 
D. Linnei, "Bail. Queensl. Ferns, 46. 
N. Australia. Coen River and islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Browns 
Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 2, 17, 674; North Coast, Gulliver 
Queensl, and, E el Bay z, R. Brown ; Albany Island, i Mueller ; Cape Yo ork, 
neis Endeavour River, "i ” Cun ingham ; York Peni N. Taylor; Rocking- 
m Bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, Bowman ; Fitzroy tae, J Walter. 
ie over East India the Malayan Peninsula and Pacific Islands. 
P. aureum, pee Hook. Spec. Filic Syn. Filic. 347, a tropical Aa 
species unknow in the Old World, has (s is ded by F. Mueller, Fragm. > bly 
on the enthority of a specimen from Hastings River, Beckler ; but there is pro? y 
re some mistake, the plant has been long in general cultivation in plant-houses. 
nnatifi ike the ferti —— th 
but less rigid and the venation is simply reticulate without singly free veinlets in 
areol ri in one or 2 irr irregula - rows on each side of the midrib are mse m 
= junction of 2 veinlets in the and the receptacles are not prominent on 
upper surface as in P. phy mes sm it also iueliplon in some respects. 
34. NOTHOLANA, R. Br. 
Rhizome tufted. Fronds usually small, once twice or thrice pinnate 
with small lobed segments. Veinlets forked from a central nerve oF 
from the base of the segment. Sori small at the ends of the veinlets, 
almost contiguous forming an apparently continuous line within the 
I IE which is however more or less curved over them in 4 
dandi 
nus ranging o crate regions of the 
Now and pupa Old World, “OF a E dites toc t "specia, one is ide oid with à 
West Mediterranean one, another extends to New Zealand and New C Tr den 
two remaining ones appear to be endemic. The genus is closely allied to 6 
