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184. N. c?/atheoides, Kaulf. ; st. 1-2 ft. 1., strong, naked, glossy, greyish ; fr. 

 2-3 ft. 1., 1 ft. or more br. ; pinnce close, spreading, 4-6 in. 1., |-1 in. br., the apex 

 acuminate, the edge irregular, furnished with acute forward-pointing teeth to a 

 depth of 1-2 lin., the lowest pair not shorter than the next ; texture papyraceo- 

 herbaceous or subcoriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; veins in pinna- 

 tifid groups of 10-12 veinlets on a side, with often a sorus on each close to the 

 main vein. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 76. t. 241. A. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands and Sumatra. Allied to N. ferox, but less deeply cut, and the 

 stem not fibrillose. 



tf Pinnce cut from one-third to two-thirds down to the midrib. Sp. 185-196. 



185. N. asplenioides, Baker; st. 6-9 in. 1., greyish, villose ; fr. 12-18 in. 1., 

 4-5 in. br., oblong, the lower half pinnate ; upper pinnce close, oblong, entire, 

 blunt, those next in order connected by a wing to the rachis and bluntly lobed, 

 the longest 2-3 in. 1., \ in. br., bluntly lobed one-third of the way to the midrib, 

 the lowest distant and growing gradually shorter ; texture subcoriaeeous ; rachis 

 and under surface finely hairy ; veins pinnate in the lobes, with 6-8 veinlets on 

 each side ; sori minute, in rows near the midrib. Polyp. Sw. N. scl crop hy Hum, 

 Presl. Hk.Sp..p. 65. 



Hab. West Indies. 



186. N. hispidulum, Baker; st. tufted, slender, 12-18 in. 1., greyish, villose; 

 fr. 12-18 in. 1., 6 in. br. ; pinnce distant, spreading, 3-4 in. 1., J- in. br., the 

 apex acuminate, the edge cut about halfway down into oblong, slightly falcate 

 lobes, the lower ones suddenly dwarfed down to mere auricles ; rachis slender 

 and under surface finely villose ; veins pinnate in the lobes, with 3-4 veinlets on 

 each side, with a large sorus on each near the edge ; caps, naked. Asp. Decaisn. 

 N. angustifolium, Presl. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 69. 



Hab. Philippines and Malay Isles. This is nearest N. Arbuscula, but the pinnae are 

 much narrower and more deeply lobed. 



187. N. molle, Desv. ; st. tufted, 1 ft. or more 1., rather slender, deciduously 

 hairy ; fr. 1-2 ft. 1., 8-12 in. br. ; pinnce spreading, 4-6 in. 1., in. br., cut about 

 halfway down to the midrib into scarcely falcate, blunt lobes, the lower pinnse 

 distant and rather shorter than the others ; texture herbaceous ; rachis and 

 surfaces finely villose ; veins pinnate in the lobes, with 6-8 veinlets on a side ; 

 sori distant from the midrib ; caps, naked. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 67. (in part}. 



Hab. Cuba and Mexico to Peru and Brazil ; Himalayas and Hong-Kong to New Zealand 

 and N. S. Wales ; Mascaren Isles, Cape Colony, Guinea Coast, Azores, Cape Verdes, 

 Madeira. A variable plant. Of forms not safely separable A. violascens, Link, has an 

 often rather bright-coloured purplish rachis ; the E. Indian P. molliusculum, Wall., and 

 Mauritian N. Hilsenbergii, Presl, have the lobes deeper and narrower than in the type ; 

 the S. American N. Jamesoni, Hk., is a less cut reduced form ; the Javan A . pilosius- 

 culum, Mett., has setose capsules ; the Antillean A. pellitum, Willd., J. Sm v blunt pinnae 

 only f in. br. ; and the Philippine N. diversilobum, Presl, some of the lobes irregularly 

 dilated and pinnatifid. There seems no reason to doubt this is the Linnaean Polyp, para- 

 siticum ; but the name molle is so thoroughly well established for the species, that it 

 seems a pity to drop it. 



188. N. heterocarpon, Moore ; st. tufted, 1-2 ft. 1., slender, villose ; fr. 2-3 ft. 

 1., 8-12 in. br. ; pinnce 5-6 in. 1., in. br., cut down halfway or more to the 

 rachis into linear-oblong subfalcate lobes ; lower pinnce abruptly dwarfed ; 

 texture herbaceous ; rachis and under surface villose, and the latter glandular ; 

 veins pinnate in the lobes, with 8-10 veinlets on a side ; sori in rows close to the 

 main vein ; caps, naked. Aspid. Bl. Mett. Fil. Ind. p. 233. N, molle, Hk. 

 Sp. 4. p. 67. (in part}. 



Hab. Hong-Kong and Malaccas. Very near some of the forms of N. molle, but less 



