48. POLYPODIUM, EUPOLYPODIUM. 327 



stem, cut down to the rachis into entire erecto-patent pinnce 1 lin. br. ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; rachis and both sides naked or deciduously hairy ; veinlets im- 

 mersed, simple ; sori 2-6 to a pinna, medial. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 184. t. 274. B. 



Hab. N. India (up to 8,500 ft.), Ceylon, Mascaren Isles, Zambesi-land. The Javan 

 plant, P. inconspicuum, Blume, is said to differ by its firmer texture and costular sori. 



140. P. glandulosum, Hk. ; st. tufted, very short ; Jr. 2-4 in. 1., J-f in. br., 

 cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into close, rather deeply-toothed, 

 decurrent oblong pinnae, the lower ones gradually reduced ; texture papyraceo- 

 herbaeeous ; colour dull-green ; both sides densely glandular but not hairy ; 

 veinlets simple ; sori 1-3 to each pinna. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 193. t. 276. A. 



Hab. Ceylon. Perhaps a form of P. parvulum, with which it agrees in general habit. 



141. P. jubceforme, Kaulf. ; st. tufted, slender, 1-2 in. 1., wiry, naked ; Jr. 6-12 

 in. 1., ^ in. br., cut down to the rachis into close, entire, decurrent blunt lobes 



1 lin. br. ; texture subcoriaceous ; the black threadlike rachis and both sides 

 naked ; veinlets simple ; sori medial, 2-6 on a side, conspicuously immersed. 

 Hk.Sp. 4. p. 186. 



Hab. West Indies and Panama. 



142. P. pilosissimum, M. & G. ; st. tufted, 1-2 in. 1., rigid, clothed with soft 

 spreading hairs ; fr. 4-8 in. 1., ^-f in. br., cut down nearly or quite to the 

 rachis into close, blunt, entire lobes 1-1^ lin. br., the lower ones growing 

 gradually shorter and broader ; texture coriaceous ; rachis rigid, ebeneous ; both 

 sides naked or the lower one pilose ; sori in rows of 4-5 on each side of the 

 midrib of i\\Q pinnce, distinctly immersed. Hk. /Sp. 4. p. 181. 



Hab. Mexico to Ecuador and South Brazil. The most rigid of the group except 

 P. moniliforme. 



143. P. lasiostipes, Mett. ; st. tufted, very short, clothed with short stiff 

 spreading blackish hairs ; Jr. 2-4 in. 1., ^ in. br., cut down to the rachis into 

 erecto-patent blunt entire pinnce 1 lin. br. ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis 

 beneath densely and the surface slightly hispid like the stem ; veinlets simple, 

 4-6 on each side ; sori submarginal. Mett. Fil. Nov. Cal. p. 76. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, 1601-2. 

 B. Fronds more than half an inch broad, flaccid, pendulous. Sp. 144-163. 



144. P. cultratum, Willd. ; st. tufted, short, slender, clothed with soft spreading 

 brown hairs ; fr. 6-18 in. 1., ^-1 in. br., cut down to the rachis into close 

 horizontal or decurved blunt pinnce 1^-2 lin. br. ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; 

 the black threadlike rachis and both sides clothed with hairs like those of the 

 stem ; veinlets simple, 4-6 on each side ; sori medial. (3, P. elasticum, Bory, 

 smaller, Hk. Sp. 5. p. 190. P. senile, Fee. 



Hab. Cuba and Guatemala to Brazil and Peru ; Mauritius, Fernando Po. 



145. P. grammitidis, R. Br. ; st. tufted, 1-2 in. 1., wiry, naked ; Jr. 4-12 in. 1., 



2 in. or more br. ; pinnce erecto-patent, sometimes linear, blunt, usually ^-f in. 

 br., more or less deeply pinnatifid, the base abruptly decurrent; texture 

 coriaceous ; rachis and both surfaces naked / veinlets immersed, simple or forked ; 

 sori oblong, copious, usually 1 to each lobe at the base. Hk. Sp. 4. p. 230. 



Hab. New Zealand and Van Diemen's Land. 



146. P. sarmentosum, Brack. ; st. subtufted, 1 in. or less \.\Jr. 3-6 in. 1., 1-2 

 in. br., the point caudate, cut down nearly to the rachis into erecto-patent blunt 



