AN ENUMERATION OF CULTIVATED FERNS. o7 



podium cuspidatum, Presl. Reliq. Hcenk. t. I,/. 3. 

 Poly podium avenium, Desv. Tropical America. 



2. P. lanceolata, Presl. Polypodium lanceolatum, Linn.; 



Plum. Fil. t. 137. Polypodium macrocarpum, Willd. 

 Pleopeltis inacrocarpa, Kaulf. Pleopeltis lepidota, 

 Presl. Pleopeltis Helenas, Presl. Tropical America, 

 St. Helena, South Africa, and Bourbon. 



3. P. elongata, /. Sm. Grammitis elongata, Sw. Synammia 



elongata, Presl. Grammitis lanceolata, Sclik. Fil. t. 7. 

 Tropical America. 



4. P. mida, Rook. Exot. Fl. t. 63 (non Hook. Gen. Fil). Phy- 



matodes (Lepisorus) iiuda, J. Sm. Cat. Cult. Ferns 

 (1857). Polypodium loriforme, Wall. Hook. Gard. 

 Ferns, t. 18. Pleopeltis loriformis, Presl. ; Drynaria 

 Fortimei, T. Moore (non Link). Polypodium leio- 

 pteris, Kunze; Metten. Fil. Hort. Leip. t. 25, /. 37 

 East Indies. 



5. P. excavata, J. 8m. Polypodium excavatum, Bory in 



Willd. Phymatodes (Lepisorus) excavata, /. Sin. 

 Cat. Cult. Ferns (1857). Polypodium scolopendrinum, 

 D. Don. Polypodium sesquipedalis, Wall. Poly- 

 podium phlebodes, Kunze; Pleopeltis nuda, Hook. 

 Gen. Fil. t. 18 (non Hook. Exot. FL). East Indies, 

 Mauritius, and China. 



13. PARAGRAMMA, Blume. 



Rhizome short, csespitose or slender 

 elongated. Fronds simple, linear- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, \ to 1-g- foot in 

 length, smooth, coriaceous. Veins 

 compound anastomosing, internal, ob- 

 scure, nearly uniform. Receptacles 

 compital, deeply immersed, forming 

 oblong or short linear cysts near to, 

 and parallel with, the margin. Sori 

 oblong-linear, marginal, furnished 

 with indusioid stipitate squamae. 



Genus 13. Portion of mature 

 frond, under side. No. 1. 



