NEPIIRODIUM. 503 



coriaceous ; surfaces glabrous, or ribs minutely ciliated ; veins raised, distinct, 

 14-16-jugate ; sori minute, medial ; inv. glabrous, persistent. Aspidium, Bojer ; 

 N. albolineatum, Boivin. 



Hab. Bourbon. 



173*. N. punctatum, Parish; rhizome creeping; st. 1-2 ft., stramineous, gla- 

 brous ; fr. oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-3 ft. 1. ; rachis square, glabrous ; 

 pinna sessile, ligulate-acuminate, central 12-15 in. 1., f-f in. br., cut down to a 

 broad wing into lanceolate-falcate subacute lobes 1^-2 lin. br. ; texture charta- 

 ceous ; surfaces naked except ribs above ; veins 9-10-jugate, very distinct ; sori 

 marginal, immersed. Beddome, F. B. 1. 1. 131. 



Hab. Moulmein, Rev. C. S. Parish. 



177*' N. mascaranense, Baker ; st. 6-8 in., grey, naked ; fr. oblong-deltoid* 

 8-9 in. 1., simply pinnate ; pinnae subsessile, 6-7-jugate, patent, ligulate-caudate, 

 lowest not reduced, 2^-3 in. 1., f-f in. br., crenate, with shallow blunt lobes 

 2 lin. br., lowest quarter rather narrowed ; texture thin but firm ; surfaces 

 naked, dull-green ; rachis grey-stramineous, faintly pubescent ; veins in pinnate 

 5-6-jugate groups, upper only free ; sori subcostular ; inv. glabrous, fugacious. 

 Polypodium, edit. 1. p. 455. 



Hab. Madagascar, Mrs. Higginson ; communicated by Lady Barkly. 



183. N. moulmaynense, Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 220 (Goniopteris lineata, Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 3), is probably a form of Polypodium (Goniopteris) urophyllum, showing a 

 minute involucre in the young state, and N. costatum, F. B. I. t. 220, a similar 

 form of our Polypodium lineatum. 



187*. N. subcuneatum, Baker ; rhizome short- creeping ; st. 4-8 in., grey, slightly 

 downy upwards ; fr. lanceolate-deltoid, 6-8 in. 1., bipinnatifid ; lower pinnce 

 short-stalked, cut 4j- down into close blunt lobes 2 lin. br., central lanceolate, 1|- 

 2 in. L, - in. br., lowest not reduced, but much narrowed above base ; rachis 

 grey-downy ; texture thin, firm ; surfaces dull-green, rather pilose on the ribs ; 

 veins 6-7-jugate, only lowest pair joined ; sori medial, minute ; inv. glabrous, 

 fugacious. Fl. Bras.fasc. 49. p. 487. 



Hab. Cayenne, Leprieur. General habit like Polypodium tetragonum. 



194*. N. guadalupense, Fee ; st. tufted, grey-stramineous, naked, 1 ft. ; fr. 

 oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatifid, 2-3 ft. 1. ; lower pinnce short-stalked, gradually 

 reduced at base, 8-9 in. 1., f-| in. br., cut more than halfway down into close 

 blunt lobes 2-2^ lin. br. ; upper pinnce sessile, equal at base ; texture thin, firm ; 

 surfaces dull-green, slightly downy on ribs; veins 12-15-jugate ; sori minute, 

 medial. Fil. Ant. p. 89. t. 2,fig. 3. 



Hab. Guadaloupe, L'Uerminier. Texture and cutting of dbruplum, but veins much 

 closer. 



199*. N. (Pleoc.) giganteum, Baker ; st. tufted, l-l ft., grey, pubescent ; basal 

 scales linear, dark-brown ; fr. deltoid, 2-3 ft. 1., tripinnate or4-pinnatifid, mode- 

 rately firm, finely pubescent or subglabrous ; lower pinnce much largest, deltoid, 

 unequal-sided, stalked, with lower tertiary segm. lanceolate, pinnatifid ; upper 

 pinnce lanceolate, with broad blunt lobes, with the veins forming costular arches 

 at their base ; sori in single rows near the main veins, some compital, some at 

 the end of free veinlets. N. giganteum, edit. 1. ex parte. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 80. 



Hab. Ceylou, Malay Isles, Philippines. Texture and habit of cicutarium, but veining 

 very different. 



