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is quite correct in roferring this very fine and peculiar Fern to the Polijpodium 

 angulaturn of Willdcnow, for it well accords with the description : and surely 

 Presl is in error in asserting that this Java plant of Willdenow, is identical wiih 

 the West Indian " Jlptnionitis maxima (juinquefolia" of Plumier, Fil. t. 140, and 

 consequently the Aspid. Plumleri, I'r. (Reliq. Haeiik. p. 20). Mettenius adopts 

 the views of Presl, hut quotes Plumier, t. 149 (instead perhaps of 140, for he 

 elsewhere quotes t. 149 as prohahly a form of Anpid. tri/oliaium). 1 only regret 

 that our small pages will not allow us to do justice to a figure of a plant like 

 this. I think I may venture to say it has no near affinity with the American 

 Fern of Plumier, though, according to Kunze, that is found in Java hv Zollinger 

 (n. 2432). 



56. A. (Euaspidium) tr'ifoliatum, Sw. ; caudex erect rather 

 stout, stipites tutted a span to a foot long sparsely and decidu- 

 ously paleaceous at the base, fronds glabrous or pubescent a 

 span to a foot long cordato-acuminate coriaceo-membranacc- 

 ous when young entire or 3-lobed, in maturity .3- (rarely 5-) 

 foliolate, terminal pinna large ovato-ol^long long-petiolate, 

 the margins more or less deeply sinuated or pinnatifid, lateral 

 ones short-petioled ovate long-acuminate bipartite, segments 

 more or less falcate and sinuato-lobate or pinnatifid, the 

 lowest pair of pinnae with the inferior basal segment the 

 longest all costate, primary veins patent slender more or less 

 waved remote, the rest of the veins uniformly anastomosing 

 with areoles having free simple or forked veinlets, sori large 

 generally in two series near the primary veins, involucres 

 orbicular peltate. — Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 43. Schk. Fil. p. 29. 

 /. 28 and 28 h. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 213. Hook. Gen. Fil. 

 t. 33. Schoit, Gen. Fil. t. 4. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 95. 

 t. 22. /. 10-12. Aspid. p. 126 {not A. trifoHatum, Hook. Hong- 

 kong Ferns, nor Benth. Fl. Hongkong.). Aspid. heracleifo- 

 lium, Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 217, according to Mettenius. Poly- 

 pod, trifoliatum, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1547- Jacq. Ic. Rar. iii. 

 ?. 638 [excellent). Bath mium, Fee. Drynaria cordifolia, Fee, 

 and Polypodium cordifolium, Mart, et Gal. — Plum. Fil. t. 

 148 and 149 ? [according to Mettenius, which is Aspid. fim- 

 briatum, Willd.). Sloane, Jam. i. t. 42. 



Ilah. Tropical America: West Indies : Bahama, Eraser (pen(aphyllous) ; Mar- 

 tinique, Cuha, C. Wriyht, n. 835, Otto, n. 80 and 232 (small pinnoe deeply jiinna- 

 tifid) ; Jamaica, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent (var. ampla, frond 2 feet 

 long, terminal pinna 8 inches wide, one .specimen 5-foliolate), L. Gidlding (pro- 

 hahly Axpid. Pliimieri, Pr.). Tropical continental America: Venezuela, Fendler, 

 n. 104, Funck, n. 239 ; Panama, Scemann, and Isle of Gorgona ; Amazon, Alana- 

 quiry. Spruce, n. 1024 ; Guatemala, Skinner ; .Mexico, Vera Cruz, Linden, n. 29 

 (froud 5-foliolate, Ga/eotti, n. 0312, thence approaching some states of Aspid. 

 macrophyllnm) ; I'kuador, n. 5720, Spruce (pentaphyllous) ; and Peru, Mathews. 

 — Jn general the specimens of this species are very uniform ; hut some, large in 

 size and exhihiting 5 pinna-, I am puzzled to distinguish from Aspid. macro- 



