503 POLY PODIUM. 



123*. P. truncicola, Klotzsch ; fr. csespitose, subsessile, 2-4 in. ]., |-f in. br., 

 ligulate, narrowed gradually to base, cut down to a narrow wing into close oblong 

 blunt patent lobes 1-1^ lin. br. ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces clothed with short 

 spreading brown hairs ; veins erecto-patent, once forked, not reaching the edge ; 

 one large round sorus at the base of each lobe at the fork of the vein. Hk. Sp. 4. 

 p. 178. P. cryptosorum, Kze, 



Hab. Guatemala and Columbia. 



124*. P. sechcttarum, Baker ; st. tufted, |-1 in., clothed with fine short spread- 

 ing brown hairs ; fr. pendulous, ligulate, 3-6 in. 1., 6-7 lin. br., blunt, narrowed 

 suddenly at base, cut down to a narrow wing into oblong blunt lobes 2-2^ lin. br. ; 

 texture rigidly subcoriaceous ; surfaces thinly clothed, especially at the edge, with 

 fine soft brown hairs ; veins 4-6-jugate in pinnae, not reaching the edge ; sori round, 

 6-8 to a lobe, midway between costa and margin. 



Hab. Mane", Seychelles, Home, 194 ; Mauritius, Lady BarUy. 



127*. P. pruinatum, Baker ; basal scales linear, minute, ferruginous ; fr. sessile, 

 densely tufted, erect, oblanceolate, 6-10 lines 1., 3 lin. br,, blunt, deltoid at base, cut 

 more than halfway down to the rachis into 5-6-jugate blunt lobes under 1 lin. br. ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces clothed with fine short brown hairs, and the lower 

 slightly pruinose ; veins pinnate in lobes, with 2-3-jugate veinlets not reaching 

 the edge ; sori round, 4 to central lobes, medial. 



Hab. Chon tales, Nicaragua, Ralph Tate, 44. 



127*. P. Thwaitesii, Bedd. ; rhizome wide-creeping; basal scales lanceolate, 

 dull-brown, 2 lin. 1. ; fr. 2-4 in. 1., 9-15 lin. br., oblanceolate, blunt, cut down 

 to a narrow wing into 6-15-jugate lanceolate blunt rather ascending pinnae 1 lin. 

 br., more or less repand, the lower reduced gradually to a narrow wing, decur- 

 rent to the base ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces naked, dull-green ; venules 

 6-8-jugate, simple, distant, erecto-patent, bearing on the end medial round 

 slightly-immersed sori. F. B. 1. 1. 188. 



Hab. Ceylon, Thwaites, C. P., 3900. General habit just that of repandulum, but not 

 fully pinnate, and the caudex creeping. Smells of rhubarb when dried. 



130*. P. decipiens, Mett. ; rhizome short ; basal scales lanceolate, brownish, 

 g-j in. ; fr. subsessile, ligulate, 4-15 in. 1., -1 in. br., cut down to a narrow wing 

 into ligulate-oblong lobes, the lowest reduced ; texture membranous, rather fleshy ; 

 surfaces thinly clothed with brown hairs, the rachis more densely ; veins trans- 

 lucent, 6-14-ju?ate,all or upper soriferous ; sori immersed, submarginal. Kulm, 

 Linn. 36. p. 129. 



Hab. Sumatra and Borneo. 



131*. P. Pearcei, Baker; fr. subsessile, pendulous, lanceolate, 9-15 in 1., 

 18-21 lin. br., cut down to a narrow wing into lanceolate blunt lobes 1 J-2 lin. br. 

 at middle, the lower gradually reduced ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces dull- 

 green, the lower finely white-pruinose ; veins immersed, forked, 8-10-jugate; sori 

 round, placed on anterior branch close to the edge. 



Hab. Andes, Quichara, 6-7000 ft., Pearce. Very near P. incequale, Fe"e. 



133*. P. cornigerum, Baker ; fr. tufted, subsessile, erect, ligulate, 3-4 in. 1., 

 2-2| lin. br., pinnate ; pinnae 20-30-jugate, diminishing in size from middle 

 of frond both ways, almost triangular, subacute, repand on upper edge ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; surfaces glabrous; vein one to each pinna, forked, falling far 

 short of the tip ; sorus large, round, solitary at fork close to the main rachis. 



Hab. Ceylon Thwaites, C. P., 4005. 



