44 ASPIDIUM, § EUASPIDIIM. 



;;. 211. Polypodium, Jacq. Coll. \\. p. 10. t. 3./. 1. Sw. Syn. 

 Fil. p. 29. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 161. Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 114 

 {not P. latifolium, as quoted by Mettenius). Dryomenis, 

 /. Sm. in Seem. Bot. of the Herald, p. 229. Podopeltis, Fee, 

 Gen. p. 9. Phymatodes, Pr. Bathmium macrocarpum and 

 sinuatum, Fee, Gen. Fil. pp. 287, 288. Aspidium sinuatum, 

 Moore, Lid. Fil. p. 104. Plum. Fil. t. 129. 



Hab. Mossy rocky places near water, tropical America: Martinique, St. Vin- 

 cent, Dominica, Plumier, Sieber, n. 353, Dr. Imray, UHermhiier; French 

 Guiana, Leprienr {fronds lohato-sinuate) ; Venezuela, Fendler {one specimen 2 

 feet 4 inches long, 6 inches wide ; the margin slightly sinuate). Brazil ; Ama- 

 zon, Serra de Sao Gabriel, Spruce, n. 2189 {ordinary form oval, moderately de- 

 current at the base, or luith rather broad lanceolate fronds very decurrent on 

 the stipes) ; Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 4648 (fronds obovatc-lanceolatc, 

 very decurrent upon the stipes) ; Utria Bay, Pacific coast of Panama, Seemann, 

 same form as Spruce's n. 4648. — My copious specimens from the West Indies and 

 the continent of S. America, have satisfied me that the Polypodium planfagineum, 

 Jacq., and our Aspidium planfagineicm, are one and the same Fern, varying a good 

 deal in outline, as above noted, and varying in the presence or absence of the in- 

 volucre, whether from being quickly deciduous, or, as I apprehend, its entire sup- 

 pression at times, it is hard to say. 



** Fronds jialmafely 3-b-lobed or o-b-foUolate. 



55. A. (Euaspidium) angulatum, J. Sm. MS. ; caudex ? 

 stipes a span and more long ebeneous-chestnut as are the 

 rachis and principal costee beneath, frond cordate 12-15 

 inches long and nearly as much broad subcoriaceo-membrana- 

 ceous glabrous palmately 5-cleft or 3-foliolate, lateral pinnae 

 petiolate semiorbicular deeply but unequally 2-lobed, terminal 

 pinna with a long petiole (4 inches long) very large orbicular 

 in outline 7 inclies broad deeply 3-lobed, middle lobe the 

 largest, all the lobes broad-ovate suddenly and very sharply 

 acuminate, margins entire, costse three in the terminal pinna, 

 two in the lateral ones prominent towards the base beneath, 

 primary veins patent rather distant straight or only slightly 

 curved, secondary ones forming zigzag arches connecting the 

 primary ones, the rest of the venation copiously anastomo- 

 sing and forming irregular areoles with free simple or forked 

 and divaricating veinlets bearing the sori invariably at the 

 apex, sori small very abundant and even crowded but not 

 confluent scattered over the surface of the frond to the very 

 margin, involucre minute (./. Sm.) not visible in my speci- 

 mens, possibly none. — Polypodium angulatum, Willd. Sp. 

 PL v.p. 185. 



Hab. Java ( Willdemiv) ; Amboyna, Barclay, in Herb. J. Smith ; Borneo, Mr. 

 Wallace, in Herb. Nostr., the palmately 5-fid form. — Mr. Smith, I cannot doubt. 



