326 48. POLYPODIUJI, EUPOLYPODIUM. 



133. P. exiguuni, Griseb. ; st. tufted, thread-like, very short, naked ; fr. 

 pendulous, 6-24 in. 1., 2 lin. br. ; pinnce ^-1 lin. 1., lin. br., half-ovate, blunt, 

 entire or with a single crenation on the upper side, distant, but the base broadly 

 dilated on both sides ; texture subcoriaceous ; both sides naked ; veins and sori 

 1 to each pinna, the former forked. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. 2nd. p. 701. 



Hab. Jamaica, Purdie. 



134. P. trichomanoides, Swz. ; st. densely tufted, short, clothed with soft 

 spreading deciduous hairs ; f r ~ 3-6 in. 1., 2-4 lin. br., cut down to the rachis into 

 close linear-oblong blunt pinna* tinder 1 lin. br. ; rachis wiry, ebeneous ; texture 

 subcoriaceous, the surfaces naked or slightly clothed with soft hairs ; veins and 

 sori 1 in each pinna, the former forked, the latter near the base. Hk. Sp. 4. 

 p. 178. 



Hab. Cuba to Brazil and Ecuador ; Juan Fernandez, Ascension Island, Malncca, 

 Sikkim. 



135. P. flabettiforme, Lam. ; st. tufted, short, fringed with long soft hairs ; 

 fr. flaccid, 4-12 in. 1., f- in. br., cut down throughout nearly or quite to the 

 rachis into entire or slightly crenate blunt pinnce 1-1J lin. br., which are 

 decurrent at the base ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; rachis and both sides 

 naked or with a few long soft hairs ; sori large, 1-3 to a pinna, terminal on the 

 short simple veinlets. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 187. 



Hab. Columbia to Peru. Distinguished in the group by its flaccid habit, slender black 

 filiform rachis, and few sori. 



136. P. subtile, Kunze ; st. tufted, slender, very short; fr. flaccid, 3-4 in. l. ; 

 2-4 lin. br., ligulate, narrowed gradually towards both ends, cut down to the 

 rachis throughout into close entire blunt pinnce -f lin. br. ; texture papy- 

 raceo-herbaceous ; rachis black, like both sides thinly clothed with long soft 

 hairs ; sori 3-6 to a pinna, terminating the short veinlets. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 187. 

 t. 275. A. 



Hab. Venezuela to Peru. Lobes narrower and closer than in the last, and texture 

 almost that of a thin Adiantum. P. subscabrum, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 183. t. 274. A. is appa- 

 rently this ; but it is not the plant of Klotzscb. 



137. P. delicatulum, M. & G. ; rhizome wide-creeping, slender ; st. tufted 

 wiry, 1-2 in. 1., densely clothed with long soft hairs ; fr. 4-6 in. 1., | in. br., cut 

 down to the rachis into close blunt entire pinnce 1-1| lin. br., the lower ones 

 broader and shorter ; texture subcoriaceous ; veinkts simple ; both sides thinly 

 clothed with long soft hairs ; sori copious, subimmersed, 6-8 to a pinna. Hk. 

 Sp. 4. p. 184. 



Hab. Mexico to Ecuador. 



138. P.perumanum, Desv. ; rhizome creeping, fibrillose ; st. 1-2 in. 1., slender 

 erect, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fr. 3-4 in. 1., J- in. br., cut down to 

 tlie_ rachis into oblong-triangular blunt entire 'pinnce | in. br. ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous ; both sides nearly naked ; veinlets immersed, simple sori rather 

 large, 2-4 to a pinna. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 186. P. anfractuosum, Kze. ' 



Hab Venezuela and Peru. This comes very near the next species. P. monticola. 

 Klotzsch, is probably a reduced form. It is described as csespitose ; but in our specimen 

 the rhizome is slender and greatly elongated, with the fronds 2-3 in. distant from one 

 another. 



139. P. parwtlum, Bory ; rhizome stout, short-creeping, clothed with linear 

 scales ; /r. 4-6 in. 1., f in. br., tapering gradually downwards into a very short 



