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284 44. NEPHRODIUM, LASTREA. 



nearer the midrib than the edge ; invol. thin, fugacious. Aspid. Bhime ? (non 

 Muhl.) ; N. Bluinei, Hk. (in part). 



Hab. N. India to Ceylon, Philippines, Malaccas, and Japan. 



135. N. (Last.) lepigerum, Baker ; st. 12-18 in. 1., angular, clothed only at 

 the base with long, linear-subulate scales ; fr. 2-3 ft. 1., lf-2 ft. br. ; lower 

 pinnae often 1 ft. 1., 6 in. br. ; lowest pinnl. much the largest, sometimes 

 compound, the others lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into broadly-toothed or 

 entire, blunt, linear-oblong segm., the latter 2 lin. br. ; rachises and costrc 

 beneath rather densely clothed with linear scales ; texture herbaceous, the rest of 

 the surface naked ; sori small, copious, nearer the edge than the midrib ; invol. 

 thin. 



Hab. Isle of Bonin ; received from the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, and the 

 U. S. Expedition of 1853-6. Differs from the preceding by its larger lobes, distinct 

 linear basal scales, and scaly under surface. 



136. N. (Last.) oltusilobum, Baker ; st. 1-2 ft. 1., firm, erect, densely clothed 

 with large ovate concolorous scales ; fr. 3-4 ft. 1., l-2 ft. br. ; lower pinnae 

 often 1 ft. 1., 6 in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, most of the segm. of the lower ones 

 distinct, ovate-oblong, cut down to the rachis into oblong- rhomboidal entire 

 lobes, the largest in. deep, ^ in. br. ; texture herbaceous, turning blackish when 

 dried ; rachises slightly scaly, the upper ones, and especially the under surface, 

 more or less glandular ; lower veinlets of the entire lobes forked ; sori medial. 



Hab. Ceylon, Dr. Thwaites, C. P. 3142. Most like N. intermedium in size and 

 cutting, but the scales different, the under side very glandular, and the texture thinner. 



137. N. (Last.) Boryanum, Baker (nbn Hk.) ; st. 2-3 ft. 1., stramineous or 

 brownish, deciduously scaly ; fr. ample, 6-8 ft. 1., 2-3 ft. br. ; lower pinnce 

 12-18 in. 1., 6 in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, 3-4 in. 1., cut down to a winged rachis 

 into blunt, spreading, more or less toothed lobes 2-3 lin. br. ; texture herbaceous ; 

 rachises and under side naked ; veinlets simple or forked ; sori in rows near the 

 midrib. N. divisum, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 133. 



Hab. Himalayas (up to 7,000 ft.), Madras, Moulmein, Java, Bourbon. See remarks 

 under JV. Bfijeri. This is a well-marked plant, and our Mascaren examples quite agree 

 with those from India. 



138. N. (Last.) catopteron, Hk. ; st. 3-4 ft. 1., pubescent ;fr. 4-6 ft. 1., 2-3 ft. br., 

 lower pinnce 12-18 in. 1., oblong-lanceolate, with close lanceolate pinnl. or sub- 

 deltoid, with some of the pinnl. of the lower side compound ; segm. oblong, bluntish, 

 about \ in. 1., in. br., more or less deeply pinnatifid ; texture herbaceous ; 

 rachises tad both surfaces villose ; veinlets forked ; sori copious; invol. firm. 

 Hk. Sp. 4. p. 137. A. odoratum, Mett. (non Willd.). 



Hab. Cape Colony to Natal, Mascaren Isles, and Guinea Coast. 



139. N. (Last.) setigerum, Baker ; rhizome creeping ; st. 1-2 ft. 1., naked 

 upwards or scaly throughout ; fr. 1-3 ft. 1. ; lowest pinnce the largest, often 

 8-12 in. 1., 4-6 in. br. ; pinnl. close, linear-lanceolate, 1-3 in. 1., |-J in. br., cut 

 down to the rachis into close pinnatifid lobes not more than 1 lin. br. in the 

 broadest form ; texture herbaceous ; main rachis straw-coloured, naked, or more 

 or less fibrillose ; rachises of the pinnl. and under side finely villose ; sori minute, 

 copious, often 8-12 to a lobe ; invol. very fugacious. Cheilanthes, Blume. N. 

 tenericaule, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 142. t. 269. Aspid. uliginosum, Kze. Mett. 



Hab. Japan, China, and N.India to Ceylon and Malay, and Polynesia as far east 

 as the Society Isles. A common plaut within its range, very variable in size and vesti- 



