280 44. NEPHRODIUM, LASTREA. 



114. N. (Last.) rubiginosum, Hk. ; st. 1 ft. 1., densely clothed with large 

 linear scales at the base, and upwards with spreading smaller ones ; fr. 12-18 

 in. 1., 1 ft. br., subdeltoid ; pinnm lanceolate, the lowest the largest, deltoid, 

 6-8 in. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnl. close, lanceolate, cut down to the rachis into 

 slightly-toothed, oblong, blunt segm.; texture herbaceous, both sides naked ; 

 rachises fibrillose ; sori close to the midrib. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 143. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands, Brackenridge. The scales of the rachis are quite subulate, 

 with alternate coloured and colourless cells. N. Fiyiense, Hk. 2nd Cent. t. 67, is 

 probably distinct ; the frond is larger and less deltoid, the rachises are less scaly, and the 

 lower segments are pinnatifid, with small blunt lobes, with a sorus filling up more than 

 half of them. It was gathered by Milne in Fiji. 



115. N. (Last.) squamigerum, Hk. & Am. ; st. tufted, 1 ft. 1., clothed 

 throughout with lanceolate scales ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., 6-9 in. br., ovate-deltoid ; 

 pinnae close, lanceolate, the lowest pair subdeltoid, 6-9 in. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnl. 

 lanceolate, close, more or less deeply pinnatifid, with broad blunt lobes ; texture 

 herbaceous ; rachises and midribs o'f the pinnules beneath scaly ; sori in rows 

 near the midrib. #. Sp. 4. p. 144. t. 280. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands, Unique in the group in the dense scaly clothing of its 

 rachises. 



116. N. (Last.) Bojeri, Baker; st. 6-9 in. .1., naked, stramineous, the scales 

 lanceolate, concolorous, confined to the base ; fr. If -2 ft. 1., nearly as br., 

 deltoid ; pinnce imbricated, the lowest the largest, lanceolate, sometimes 1 ft. 1., 

 4 in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, cut down to the rachis below into oblong-ligulate 

 subentire lobes ; texture herbaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; veinlets 

 forked ; sori distant from the midrib ; invol. firm, naked. N. Boryanum, Hk. 

 Sp. 4. p. 126. 



Hab. Mauritius and Bourbon. Mettenius has shown another quite different plant to 

 be Willdenow's Boryanum. The alliance of this is N. Napoleonis, but the frond is more 

 compound. 



117. N. (Last.) odoratum, Baker ; st. 12-18 in. 1., stramineous, glossy, densely 

 clothed at the base with a tuft of lanceolate bright-brown scales ; fr. 9 18 in. 1., 

 deltoid ; lowest pinnce much the largest, deltoid, 6-9 in. 1., 3-4 in. br. ; pinnl. 

 lanceolate, often imbricated, with ovate or oblong pinnatifid segm. with blunt 

 rounded lobes ; texture herbaceous ; colour pale-green ; rachis and under side 

 more or less pubescent ; sori copious ; invol. large, pale, villose. Aspid. Bory. 

 N. hirsutum, Don. N. eriocarpum, Dec. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 141. Hypodematium, 

 Kunze. 



Hab. N. India (up to 7-8000 ft.), S. China, Malayan Peninsula, Mauritius, Cape 

 "Verdes. A well-marked species, which specimens from Bojer show is .4. odoratum of 

 Wiildenow. 



****** Rhizome wide- creeping. Fronds small or middle-sized^ deltoid, tri- or 

 quadripinnatijld. Sp. 118-125. 



118. N. (Last.) pubescens, Desv. ; st. 6-18 in. 1., slender, deciduously villose; 

 fr. 6-18 in. 1., deltoid ; lower pinnce much the largest ; pinnl. lanceolate ; lower 

 segm. usually free, oblong-rhomboidal, unequal -sided ; teeth mucronate ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; rachises often densely villose and under side more or less 

 pubescent ; colour pale-green ; sori small, distant from the midrib. Hk. Sp. 4. 

 p. 146. Hk. & Gr. Ic. t. 102. 



Hab. West Indies. Veins sometimes anastomosing. Phegopteris Portoriccnsis, Fe"e, 

 and Polyp, sericeum, Hk. Sp. 4. p. 258, are non-involucrate forms. 



119. N. (Last.) Parishii, Hk. ; st. 6-9 in. 1., slender, naked, ebeneous ; fr. 6-8 



