332 48. POLYPODIUM, EUPOLYPODIUM. 



texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and under surface thinly clothed with minute ovate 

 toothed scales ; veinlets obscure, simple ; sori in 2 long rows. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 276. B. 



Hab. Guatemala ; gathered by Mr. Skinner. 



173. P. furfuraceum, Schlecht. ; rhizome strong, densely clothed with brown 

 woolly fibrils ; st. 3-4 in. 1., rigid, erect, scaly and villose ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., 2-4 

 in. br., cut down to the rachis into linear acute or bluntish entire pinnce 2 lin. 

 br., dilated on both sides at the base ; texture coriaceous ; rachis and under side 

 clothed with dense scales and soft spreading hairs ; veinlets forked ; sori in 2 long 

 rows. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 213. 



Hab. Mexico. Rigid habit and dense scales of Lepicystis, but the veins free. 



174. P. papillosum, Blume ; rhizome stout, wide-creeping, scaly ; st. 4-6 in, 

 1., erect, slender, rigid, naked ; fr. 1 ft. or more 1., 2 in. br., cut down to the 

 rachis into close horizontal blunt entire or faintly crenated pinnce 2-3 lin. br. ; 

 texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; veins black, 

 distinct, once forked ; sori in rows near the edge, deeply immersed, the cavity 



, prominent on the upper side. Hk. /Sp. 4. p. 1 98. 2nd Cent. t. 46. 



Hab. Java and Philippines. 



175. P. apiculatum, Kze. ; rhizome stout, woody, short-creeping or suberect ; 

 basal scales grey, linear cancellate ; st. 1-2 in., rigid, erect, grey, finely pubescent 

 like rachis ; fr. lanceolate-caudate, 6-8 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., cut down to rachis 

 into adnate 30-40-jugate, linear, subacute pinnce 1 lin. br., the lowest gradually 

 reduced ; texture moderately firm, not flexible ; surfaces dull-green, naked ; veins 

 8-12-jugate, obscure, forked ; sori round, superficial, filling up the space between 

 edge and midrib. Hk. tip. 4. p. 185. Baker, Fil. Bras. p. 515. P. confluens, 

 Fee, Fil. Bras. t. ZQ.fig. 3. 



Hab. Columbia, Guiana, and Brazil. 



176. P. elasticum, Rich. ; rhizome stout, woody, short-creeping or suberect ; 

 scales brown, linear ; st. 1-3 in., black, slender, naked ; fr. lanceolate, 9-18 in. 1., 

 2-4 in. br., cut down to rachis into ligulate, patent, adnate, entire, blunt 40-100- 

 jugate pinnce, lower gradually reduced ; texture very elastic ; surfaces naked, 

 except black wiry rachis ; veinlets forked, obscure, 15-20-jugate ; sori minute, 

 superficial, medial. P. Plumula, H. B. K. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 200, ex pafte. P. pul- 

 chrum, M. & G., Hk. Sp. 4. p. 199. P. Schkuhri, Raddi. 



Hab. Mexico to Peru and Brazil. P. Filicula, Kaulf., is a small variety. 



177. P. taxifolium, L. ; rhizome stout, scaly ; st. subtufted, 2-4 in. 1., erect, 

 rigid, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fr. 6-12 in. or more 1., l-3 in. br., cut 

 down to the rachis into close entire or slightly crenated blunt horizontal pinnce 

 H-2 lin. br., the lower ones distant and much reducsd ; texture papyraceo- 

 herbaceous or subcoriaceous ; rachis naked or villose ; both sides naked ; veinlets 

 simple, very distinct, with the sori terminal upon them. P. Plumula, Hk. Sp. 

 4. p. 200, ex parte. P. L'Herminieri, Fee, Fil. Ant. t. 12. 



Hab. Guatemala, West Indies, Ecuador, South Brazil. Well distinguished by its 

 finely-cut pectinate habit and simple oblique usually distinctly-marked veinlets, with the 

 sori terminal upon them. 



178. P. recurvatum, Kaulf. ; rhizome creeping, the scales ovate-lanceolate, 

 bright-ferruginous ; st. 3-6 in. 1., firm, erect ; fr. 1-3 ft. 1., 4-6 in. br., cut down 

 to the rachis into close entire acuminate pinnce ^-% in. br., the lower ones 

 quite distinct, not smaller than the others ; texture subcoriaceous ; raclds finely 

 pubescent ; veins obscure, forked ; sori in a single medial line. JHett. Polyp. 

 p. 60. 



