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Hab. Pacific Isles, Forster. Fet-jee and adjacent islands, Milne, Seemann, n. 

 747 a7id 749 {named Sagenia lepanda, m Dr. Seemann's Cat. of Feejee Plants 

 published in the ' Bonplaadia'), Br. Harvey. Solomon's Group and Tanna, New 

 Hebrides, Milne. Java, Blimie, in Herb. Nostr., I)e Vriese, and Teijsmann, n. 

 9 a«(Z 297. Luzon, Cuming, n. 57. Madagascar, Boivin. Fernando Po, Gustav 

 Mann, n. 142 (one specimen with livid-brown stipes and rachis, but very glossy; 

 also from the same place and with the same coloured yet glossy stipes and rachis, 

 and from the Gaboon River, G. Mann. — Like so many of the Sugema-^row^ of 

 Aspidium, this varies in the size and still more in the composition of its fronds, 

 and the shape and nature of the pinnaj and their segments. It has altogether 

 the venation of the preceding species, and there is mucn similarity in the fronds ; 

 but the generally intensely black stipites and rachises are very remarkable. 

 Brackenridge, under his Drynaria latifolia, by his references intends tliis plant ; 

 but he expressly, in two places, describes the stipes as straw-colour, and as well 

 as from the fact of his giving Tahiti as the locality, it is more than proljable his 

 Fern is the same as that from the same country, which I have referred to 

 Aspid. subtriphylluin. 



67. A. (Euasplenium) poJifmorpluun^ Wall. ; caudex creep- 

 ing, stipites from a few inches to 1-2 feet long fuscous a 

 little scaly at the base, fronds very variable in size from 3-6 

 inches (when they are generally cordate or 3-lobed or tri- 

 foliolate) to 1-2 or more feet long, adult coriaceo-membrana- 

 ceous pinnated with 4-8 pairs of pinnae and terminated by an 

 odd one as large as or larger than the rest (sometimes confluent 

 with the two below it), basal ones very large and long and ge- 

 nerally unequally bifid or bipartite or more frequently bifolio- 

 late, the segments curved upwards, intermediate ones 5-6 or 

 8 inches long oblong acute or acuminate subopposite in dis- 

 tant pairs subpetiolate, inferior base unequal, the lowest often 

 dilated, primary or costal veins horizontally patent slightly 

 arcuate, these are connected by arched veins transversely, 

 the meshes or areoles'are occupied by copiously anastomo- 

 sing veinlets, and their areoles with free sterile simple or 

 forked veinlets, sori copious generally small all compital, 

 involucres cordate. — Aspidium polymorphum, Wall. Cat. n. 

 382. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 100. Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 88. J. Sm. 

 in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv.' p. 183. Aspid. rostratum, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 383. Aspid. repandum, Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 216? 

 Pr. Rel. Hank. i. p. 29. Brack. Fil. U. St. Eocpl Ex. p. 1 79 ? 

 Bl. Enum. Fil. Jav. p. 144. Bathmium, Fee? Sagenia, /. Sm. 

 in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 410. Aspid. rostratum. Wall, 

 n. 383 (a common form^ with narrow acuminated apices to the 

 pinnce) . 



Hab. India : Nepal, TVallich, n. 382, Winterboltom ; Kumaon, elev. 2000 feet, 

 Strachey and U'interbottom ; Sikkim, Hook. fil. and Thomson, elev. 2-4000 feet; 

 Bhotanand Mishmee, Griffith; Assam, Khasya, elev. 4000 feet (some with very 

 large pinnse laciniato-pinnatifid), Griffith, Simons, Hook. fil. atid Thorn. ton ; Nil- 



