Polypodium. | FILICES. 555 
reddish-brown, linear-lanceolate, somewhat obtuse. Stip. tufted, less than 1’ 
long, margined, pubescent when young with glandular hairlets. Frond sub- 
coriaceous, naked, elliptico-lanceolate, 3—6 1/2—2‘, broadest at the 
middle, narrowing suddenly toward both ends, the apex mostly subentire 
and often produced into a long caudate acumination, the middle cut to 
near the concolorous or darker rachis into erecto-patent, bluntish, entire 
or crenate segments which are 2—3‘’ broad at the base. Veins pinnate 
in the segments, with a flexuose costule, the veinlets very oblique, simple, 
or forking near their ends, terminating in punctiform apices. Sori apical, 
round, rather irregular, 2—7 to a segment. Numerous paraphyses, shin- 
ing yellow, intermixed with the sporangia. — Sp. Fil. IV, 195. — Synops. 
Fil. p. 327. 
Com mossgrown trees and rocks. — Not reported from elsewhere. One of m 
saiatmneine ee the. peveeids eut pinnaeform segments strongly n notched, so as to resemble 
the New Zealand P. grammitidis, Br., which however d have the glandular 
paraphyses. These peculiar organs, which occur in all the species belonging to the 
present group, consist of a series of 83—5 cells, the last one ager aceite nto a clavate 
shining resinons gland, the walls of which often exhibit faint transvers arkings as of 
an annulus. The glandular hairlets of the stipes show the same str vere, nt the gland 
is always Katey cylindrical and often sessile. — The SS reuli run to grea 
lengths, forming intricate convolutions between the here a@ Ses indiations 
that this eapetative mode of increase also takes ait in ae enliat two speci 
7. P, Adenophorus, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 104, tab. 22. — Rhi- 
zome short and oblique, rather thick. Scales small, lanceolate, obtuse, 
dark and stiff, transparent at the base. Stip. closely set, but not tufted, 
very short, pale, marginate, pubescent with resino-glandular, often bifid 
hairlets. Frond pale, thin chartaceous, scantily pubescent, linear -lanceo- 
late, attenuate at both ends, 6—12‘’ X 8/s—1’, cut down nearly to the pale 
rachis into alternate, patent, blunt or rather acute, deltoid or ovato-lanceolate 
entire segments which are 2—3” broad at the base. Veins obscure, 
ones emitting a very short anterior branchlet. Sori round, termi inal at 
the apex of the segment, the others ae dorsal, but eee at 
the end of the anterior branchlet, 6—14 on a segment, closely in 
two rows between rib and edge or > panels the former. Paraphyses ote 
red, large and often incurved. — Sp. Fil. IV, 195. — Synops. Fil. p. 328. — 
Brack, 1. ¢. p. 8. — P. pendulum, Gaud. Bot. Freye. p. 349. — Adeno- 
Phorus pinnatifidus, Gaud. ibid. p. 365. 
Not ri ligation in forests above 2000 ft., hanging in graceful festoons from the trunks 
from Peru, Samoa and Sumetr ie pecies resembles greatly 
— Reported 
; iceas P. pendulum, Sw., and the Malay we hemgaine Brack., both of 
whe h lack the resino-san ndular nage and clavate para P. decorum, 
1s credited to the Hawaiian islands in the ipaene* but I conser ‘ seo likely that a 
reexamination of the antes in toma will eal the presi f paraphyses. 
8. P. hymenophylloides, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 118. — Rhizome short 
and thick, oblique, almost creeping, covered with thin dark brown lan- 
