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soft woolly hairs, fronds a foot long firm-coriaceous ob- 

 long-ovate moderately acuminate pale beneath, ])artially 

 clothed above with woolly hairs entirely so beneath tripin- 

 nate, primary pinnec ovato-lanceolate acuminate 2-3i inches 

 long, secondary ones 1 inch long of the same form bear- 

 ing 9-11 pinnules \ of an inch long confluent at their 

 base towards the apex, they and the segments ovate obtuse 

 entire or more or less obtusely toothed mucronate at the 

 apex, sori universal even to the narrow acuminated apex of 

 the pinnte 2-4 on each side the costa, involucre rather small 

 orbicular and peltate quite black with a red-brown margin. 

 (Tab. CCXXVIII.) 



Hab. New Zealand (Wairarapa), Northern Island, Rev. W. Colenso ; Middle 

 Island, Raoul.—'Y\\\% is assuredly a very distinct species from any with which I 

 am acquainted. It has something of the habit of small specimens of Anpid. coria- 

 cenm, with very small segments to the fronds, hnt the clothing, the ramification 

 and the involucres are quite different. The segments are entire or very sparsely 

 and obtusely toothed, the apex only mucronate. Although we have received this 

 species from M. Raoul's collection {Ilerfj.Mus. Paris), it does not ajjpear in his 

 ' Choix des Plantes,' unless he has combined it with Aspld. coriaceum. 



28. A. (Polystichum) amabile, Bl. ; caudex decidedly creep- 

 ing thick as a swan's quill paleaceous with ferruginous scales, 

 stipites solitary a span to a foot long slender subflexuose 

 paleaceous below, fronds 6-12 inches long subdeltoideo-ovate 

 acuminate bipinnate submembranaceous, primary pinnae 

 5-11-12 rather distant terminal one as large as or larger 

 than the rest all long petiolate, lowest pair often bipartite so 

 as to form a pedate frond, pinnules petiolulate ^-f of an inch 

 long obliquely rhombeo-ovate subfalcate acute subauriculate 

 at the superior truncated base and coarsely spinuloso-serrated 

 except at the inferior base, sori a single series at the sinuses 

 of the serratures close to the superior margin and apex of the 

 pinnules, involucres orbicular. (Tab. CCXXV.) — BL En. Fl. 

 Jav. p. 1G5 {in Herb. Nostr.). Aspid. rhomboideum, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 364. Melten. Aspid. p. GG. Polystichum, Schott 

 {name only), and Presl, Tent. Ptcrid. p. 84. Epimel. Hot. 

 p. 54. Lastrea, Moore. 



Hab. Nepal, Walllch, n. 364. Java, Rlume, TIios. Lohb. Luzon, Cuming, 

 n. 131. N.E. coast of Formosa, C. Jl'il/ord. — A very distinct and well-marked 

 species, perhaps first detected in Nepal, and named by Walllch, but since found 

 more abundantly in the islands of the Indian Ocean. The primary pinn;c are 

 all petioled, and these do not gradually contract into an acuminated point, but 

 there is a terminal petiolated piima resenihling, but larger than, the lateral ones. 

 Mettenius and Moore assign to this species a rotundalo-reniform hivolucre : such 

 may be occasionallyproduced ; but our perfect ones are clearly orbirulari-poltatc. 

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