494 NEPHRODIUM. 



scaly ; veins simple, distant, 3-5-jugate ; sori minute, medial ; inv. fugacious. 

 Aspidium, Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 116. Polyp, incisum, Mart. & Gal. Foug. Mex. 

 p. 43. 



Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 



17*. N. (Last.) Hopeanum, Baker ; st. 12-15 in., grey, glossy, naked ;/r. oblong- 

 lanceolate, 1 ft. L, 6-7 in. br., bipinnatifid ; pinnae distant, sessile, caudate, lower 

 3-4 in. 1., |-| in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into ligulate-falcate entire 

 lobes \ in. br., the lowest of which on both sides are much reduced ; tip of fr. 

 like one of the pinnae ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis grey, slightly pubescent ; 

 surfaces dull-green, naked ; veins simple, arcuate, close, distinct, raised, 10-12- 

 jugate ; sori crowded close to midrib ; inv. firm, persistent. 



Hab. Ovalau Viti, Lieut. Hope. 



19*. N. (Last.) BracJcenridgei, Baker ; st. 2-3 ft., grey, naked ; fr. 2-4 ft. L, 1-1 > 

 ft. br., oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid ; lower pinnae short-stalked, 6-9 in. 1., 1-1 J 

 in. br., much reduced on the lower side, with a gland at the base, cut down nearly 

 or quite to the rachis into close falcate acute pinnl. \-\\ lin. br., of which the 

 lower on both sides are much reduced ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis and surfaces 

 dull-green, naked ; veins close, distinct, 12-20-jugate ; sori minute, subcostular ; 

 inv. firm, glabrous, persistent. Aspidium, Mett. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4. vol. 15. 

 p. 75. Lastrea attenuata, Brack, not J. Sm. N. insequilaterale, Baker, Syn. Fil. 

 edit. 1. p. 454. 



Hab. Viti and Samoa. 



26*. N. (Last.) Eichardsi, Baker ; rachis grey, densely shortly downy ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 15-18 in. 1., 8-9 in. br. ; pinnae moderately close, 

 patent, ligulate-caudate, f in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into close ligulate 

 slightly repand blunt lobes 1 lin. br. ; lowest pinnae not reduced, their lowest 

 lobes on both sides slightly so ; texture membranous ; both sides downy on the 

 ribs ; veins distant, distinct, 7-8-jugate ; sori medial j inv. firm, persistent, slightly 

 pilose. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Richards. 



29. N. (Last.) calcaratum, var. ciliatum (Wall) ; rachis densely pubescent ; 

 pinnae broader than in the type (^ in.)j with broader blunter less ascending lobes. 

 Aspidium ciliatum, Wall. Lastrea sericea, Scott, Bcdd. F. B. 1. 1. 308. 



Hab. East Himalayas. 



29*. N. (Last.) Prenticei, Baker ; rachiscs grey, slightly downy ; fr. rhom- 

 boid, bipinnatifid, 1 ft. 1. ; pinnce close, erecto-patent, ligulate-acuminate, lower 

 5-6 in. 1., ^-f in. br., narrowed gradually to a long base with a cuneate wing, 

 cut down nearly to the rachis into close falcate much-ascending subacute lobes 

 j in. br. ; texture moderately firm ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veins 9-10- 

 jugate, much-ascending ; sori medial ; inv. small, persistent, glabrous. Lastrea 

 Prenticei, Carruth. Fl. Vit. p. 359. 



Hab. Ngau Viti, Macgillivray. 



30*. N. (Last.) phanerophlebium, Baker; st. and rachis square, grey, finely 

 pubescent; fr. lanceolate-deltoid, bipinnatifid, 15-18 in. 1., 7-8 in. br.*; pinnae 

 ligulate caudate, moderately close, subsessile, lowest largest, f in. br., cut down 

 to a narrow wing into close ascending subacute entire lobes ^ in. br. ; lobes of 

 lower side beginning lower down and more falcate than those of the upper ; 

 lowest lobes of upper pinnae produced, of lowest slightly reduced ; texture firm, 



