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2. Herb. Hort. Bot. Calcuttensis. 

 Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 



No. 8361. A fern, fronds 8 to 24 In.: long of a deep green 

 color, brovvn underneath. Fruct.: i reddish brown. 

 Hab. Perak. Richsoil on limestone rocks. 

 Alt. 800 to 1500 ft. Open jungle. 



Date. Decbr. 1885. Dr. King's Collector. 



Simong Pondo. 



3. Herbarium Mus.: Perak. 

 Species. Niphobolus stigmosus, Sw. 

 Locality. 



CoUected by Revd. Father wScortechini. 



4. Apalophlebia venosa Presl. 



— Schultes. 

 Hortus Bogoriensis. 



Java. S. Kurz. 



No. 8. Niphobolus Bothii. 



Diagnose aus Hooker. Spec. fil. V, p. 53. 



Polypodium (Niphobolus) Boothii, Hook.; caudex? stipes 16 inches 

 long and stout in proportion tawny -brown paleaceous with imbricating 

 ferruginous lanceolate scales only at the \'ery base, frond camoso-coriaceous 

 16 — 24 inches long 3 — 4 inches wide eliptico lanceolate obtusely acumi- 

 nate moderately attenuated glabrous and punctated above with minute 

 blackish dots (probably corresponding with the receptacles of the sori) 

 beneath coveredwith a dense velvet}- mass of ferruginous stellated tomen- 

 tum, primarv costular veins evident but not prominent united by transverse 

 arched veins as in Campyloneurum 10 — 12 series betwecn the costules each 

 including several free soriferous veinlets, sori small partially sunk in the 

 tomentum forming transverse lines between the costules and as many as 

 there are areoles. 



Hab. Boutan, Eastern Himalaya. 



Rhizom kurz kriechend, dicht mit Schuppen bedeckt. 



Rhizomschuppen nicht schildförmig befestigt, länglich lanzett- 

 lich, lang zugespitzt, nach rückwärts über die randständige An- 

 lief tun gsstelle in zwei kurzen, unregelmässigen, sich theilweise 

 überdeckenden Lappen ausgezogen, am Rande fein, kurz ge- 

 wimpert, bis zu i cm lang, braun mit dunklerer Basis, glänzend. 



Blätter kartonartig, eirund-lanzettlich lang gestielt, nach der Spitze 

 allmählich verschmälert zugespitzt oder stumpflich gegipfelt, an 

 der Basis kurz in den Blattstiel zusammengezogen, Länge der 



