58 Baker. A Summary of the view Ferns 



sometimes slightly compound. Veinlets simple, erecto-patent, 

 8-io-jugate. Sori small, supramedial. Indusium minute, 

 fugacious. Bourbon, Deh'sle, 331. 



17*. N. savaiense, Baker, n. sp. Rootstock rather creeping; pa- 

 leae linear, brown. Stipe 6-9 in. long, naked, pilose. Frond 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, subcoriaceous, 12-15 in. long, 

 8-9 in. broad, pilose on the rachis and under surface. Pinnae 

 lanceolate, sessile, cut down to the rachis into oblong lobes 

 |- in. broad. Veinlets simple, io-i2-jugate. Sori basal, 

 minute. Indusium fugacious, densely bristly. Samoa, Powell, 

 183. 



19*. N. tibeticum, Baker. Aspidium thtbelicum, Franch. PI. 

 David. II, 156. Moupine, Tibet, Father David. Near 

 N. patens. 



19*. N. Turckheimii, Donnell Smith, in Bot. Gaz. 1887, 133, 

 tab. ii. Guatemala, Baron von Turckhetm, 714. 



22*. N. paucijugum, Jenm. in Journ. Bot. 1886, 270. Jamaica, 

 Sherring. Near N. Sloanei. 



26*. N. japonicum, Baker, n. sp. Stipe subcastaneous, $-ft. long. 

 Frond lanceolate, deltoid, bipinnatifid, membranous, finely 

 downy, 12-15 m - l n g> 9-10 in. broad; rachis castaneo- 

 stramineous, downy, not scaly. Pinnae lanceolate, sessile, 

 acuminate, the lowest the largest, 4-5 in. long, f in. broad, cut 

 down to a narrow wing into obtuse subentire lobes i-i in. 

 broad. Veinlets simple, 8-9-jugate. Sori supra-medial. 

 Indusium large, membranous. Nagasaki, Japan, Capt. Blom- 

 field. 



28. N. albo-punctatum, Desv. Oldest name is Polypodium pec- 

 tinatum, Forsk. 



28*. N. zambesiacum, Baker, n. sp. Stipe not seen complete. 

 Frond large, bipinnate, slightly hairy. Lower pinnae lanceo- 

 late, a foot long, i in. broad, cut down to the rachis into 

 entire acute lanceolate segments T \ in. broad. Veinlets 

 simple, 14-1 5-jugate. Sori medial. Indusium fugacious, 

 membranous, glabrous. Zambesi Highlands, Buchanan. 



29*. N. lepidum, Baker. Lastrea lepida, Moore, in Gard. Chron., 

 n. s. XXVI, 68 1. Polynesia, Hort, Henderson. Very near 

 the Vitian N. Prenticei. 



29*. N. Sangnellii, Herb. Moore. Stipe long, naked, with a few 



