506 POLYPODIUM. 



high ; fr. oblong-deltoid, bipinnatifid ; pinnce ligulate-acuminate, 12-15 in. 1., 

 |- in. br., cut down to a broad wing into close bluntish subfalcate lobes 

 5 lin. br. ; texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; midribs stramineous ; veinlets distinct, 

 raised, 16-18-jugate, like the edge obscurely ciliated ; veins minute, supramedial 

 on all the veins. Aspidium glanduliferum, Mett. Kuhn, Fil. Nov. Ileb. p. 9. 1 



Hab. Tanna and Aneiteum, C. Moore, 45. 



76*. P. (Goniopt.) muricatum, Powell ; st. 2-4 ft., like rachis grey glabrous ; 

 fr. oblong-deltoid, bipinnatifid, 2-4 ft 1. ; pinnce sessile, ligulate-acuminate, with 

 a prickle-like gland at the base, 6-10 in. 1., f in. br., cut halfway down into 

 falcate bluntish lobes 2 lin. br. ; lowest pinnl. largest ; texture rigidly sub- 

 coriaceous ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veinlets distinct, simple, 14-16-jugate ; 

 sari small, close, submarginal, confined to the lobes. Goniopteris glandulifera, 

 Brack. Fil. Wilkes Exped. p. 29. 



Hab. Samoa, Brackenridge, Powell, 160. Stipe furnished with fleshy white glands, 

 which become when old hard and subspinose. 



80*. P. (Goniopt.) oligophlebium, Baker ; st. 1-1 J ft., brownish, slender, with 

 a few broad blunt large scales ; fr. deltoid, 1 J ft. 1., simply pinnate ; pinnae 

 5-6-jugate below pinnatifid apex, lanceolate-acuminate, shallowly bluntly lobed, 

 5-6 in. 1., 2 in. br., all except lowest more or less adnate to rachis ; texture papy- 

 raceous ; surfaces green, naked ; main veins erecto-patent, in. apart ; veinlets 

 5-6-jugate ; sori medial. 



Hab. Andes of East Peru, Spruce, 4653. 



87*. P. (Dicty.) polycarpum, Baker; st. % ft., rubro-stramineous, slightly 

 pilose upwards ; fr. deltoid, bipinnatifid, ^-1^ ft. 1. ; pinnce 6-jugate, lowest 

 largest, deltoid, unequal-sided, stalked, tripartite, central ligulate-acuminate 

 crenate ; texture membranous ; surfaces glabrous ; main veins distinct to edge ; 

 areolce with free included veinlets ; sori copiously scattered, terminal or coin- 

 pital. Phegopteris polycarpa, Mett. Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 124. 



Hab. Malacca, Fedor Jagor, 222. 



89*. P. (Dicty.) Tatei, Baker ; st. ^ ft. or more, naked castaneous ; fr. 

 deltoid, acuminate, 2-3 ft. 1., 15-1 8 in. br.^ pinnate in the lower half, withrepand 

 ligulate-acuminate 3-5-jugate pinnae 6-12 in. 1., l-l in. br., the lowest free, 

 short-stalked, the upper half lanceolate pinnatifid, the point 6-9 in. 1., with only 

 short blunt lobes ; texture firm membranous ; surfaces naked, dark-green ; 

 main veins fine, erecto-patent, distinct nearly to edge ; areolce copious, minute, 

 with copious simple or branched included veinlets ; sori few, scattered irregu- 

 larly, mostly near or at the edge, moderately large, sometimes confluent. 



Hab. Chontales, Nicaragua, Ralph Tate. 



90*. P. (Dicty.) heterosorum, Baker; st. short, brown, with spreading linear 

 scales ; fr. oblong-spathulate, 2-3 ft. 1., simply pinnatifid, the lowest foot only 

 a narrow wing to the rachis, above this 3-4 pairs of distant oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate pinnce 1^-2 in. br. at middle, confluent in a narrow wing, the lowest 

 simple or bipartite ; texture thin but firm ; surfaces glabrous ; ribs naked, 

 brownish ; main veins distinct to edge, 3-4 lines apart, with distinct arches 

 between them, and copious small areolse with free included veinlets ; sori very 

 abundant, small, irregular, often confluent. 



Hab. Malacca, Griffith. Habit of Nephrodium vasti m. 



95*. P. tracliycarpum, Mett. ; fr. caespitose, sessile, oblanceolate-spathulate, 

 entire, 3 in. 1., under 5 in. br. ; basal scales reddish, membranous, oblong-Ian- 



