48. POLYPODIUM, EUPOLYPODIUM. 327' 



stem, cut down to the rachis into entire erecto-patent pinnce 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; rachis and both sides naked or deciduously hairy ; vcinlets im- 

 mersed, simple ; sori 2-6 to a pinna, medial. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 184. t. 274. B. 



Hab. N. India (up to 8,500 ft.), Bourbon, Mauritius,. Zambesi-land. The Javan 

 plant, P. inconspicuum, Blume, is said to differ by its firmer texture and costular sori. 



140. P, glandulosum, Hk. ; st. tufted, very short ; fr. 2-4 in. 1., - in. br., 

 cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into close, rather deeply-toothed, 

 decurrent oblong pinnae, the lower ones gradually reduced ; texture papyraceo- 

 herbaeeous ; colour dull-green ; both sides densely glandular but not hairy ; 

 vcinlets simple ; sori 1-3 to each pinna. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 193. t. 276. A. 



Hab. Ceylon. Perhaps a form of P. pareulum, with which it agrees in general habit. 



141. P. jubceforme, Kaulf. ; st. tufted, slender, 1-2 in. 1., wiry, naked ; fr. 6-12 

 in. 1., \ in. br., cut down to the rachis into close, entire, decurrent blunt lobes 

 1 lin. br. ; texture subcoriaceous ; the black threadlike rachis and both sides 

 naked ; veinlets simple ; sori medial, 2-6 on a side, conspicuously immersed. 

 Hk.Sp. 4. p. 186. 



Hab. West Indies and Panama. 



142. P. pilosissimum, M. & G. ; st. tufted, 1-2 in. 1., rigid, clothed with soft 

 spreading hairs ; fr. 4-8 in. 1., -f in. br., cut down nearly or quite to the 

 rachis into close, blunt, .entire lobes l-l lin. br., the lower ones growing 

 gradually shorter and broader ; texture coriaceous ; rachis rigid, ebeneous ; both 

 sides naked or the lower one pilose ; sori in rows of 4-5 on each side of the 

 midrib of ihepinnce, distinctly immersed. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 181. 



Hab. Mexico to Ecuador and South Brazil. The most rigid of the group except 

 P. monilifarme. 



143. P. lasiostipes, Mett. ; st. tufted, very short, clothed with short stiff 

 spreading blackish hairs ; fr. 2-4 in. 1., \ in. br., cut down to the rachis into 

 erecto-patent blunt entire pinnce 1 lin. br. ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis 

 beneath densely and the surface slightly hispid like the stem ; veinlets simple, 

 4-6 on each side ; sori submarginal. Mett. Fil. Nov. Cal. p. 76. 



Hab. New Caledonia, VieUlard, 1601-2. 

 B. Fronds more than half an inch broad, flaccid, pendulous. Sp. 144-163. 



144. P. cultratum, Willd. ; st. tufted, short, slender, clothed with soft spreading 

 brown hairs ; fr. 6-18 in. 1., ^-1 in. br., cut down to the rachis into close 

 horizontal or deurved blunt pinnce 1^-2 lin. br. ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; 

 the black threadlike rachis and both sides clothed with hairs like those of the 

 stem ; veinlets simple, 4-6 on each side ; sori medial. /3, P. elasticum, Bory, 

 smaller, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 190. P. senile, Fee. 



Hab. Cuba and Guatemala to Brazil and Peru ; Mauritius, Fernando Po. 



145. P. grammitidis, R. Br. ; st. tufted, 1-2 in. 1., wiry, naked ; fr. 4-12 in. 1., 

 2 in. or more br. ; pinnce erecto-patent, sometimes linear, blunt, usually ^-f in. 

 br., more or less deeply pinnatifid, the base abruptly decurrent ; texture 

 coriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; veinlets immersed, simple or forked ; 

 sori oblong, copious, usually 1 to each lobe at the base. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 230. 



Hab. New Zealand and Van Diemen's Land. 



146. P. sarmentosum, Brack. ; st. subtufted, 1 in. or less 1. ; fr. 3-6 in. 1., 1-2 

 in. br., the point caudate, cut down nearly to the rachis into erecto-patent blunt 



