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2. N. (Pleocnemia) aristatum, Hook.; caudex creeping, 

 stipites close-placed a span to 1 foot long, fronds of the 

 same length as the stipites ovate submenibranaceous pinnate, 

 pinntc 7-13 spreading all pctiolate especially the large termi- 

 nal one 4-6 inches long 1-1 i broad oblong-lanceolate falcate 

 finely acuminate lobato-pinnatifid obliquely cuneate at the 

 base rarely with two or three obovate auricles or distinct 

 pinnules, their lobes triangular-ovate acute and as well as the 

 apices of the pinnte subaristato-serrate, primary veins (or 

 costules of the lobes) pinnated with obliquely patent veinlets 

 of which two or three pairs of the lower ones unite and form 

 a very acute angle, sori dorsal on free or united veinlets, in- 

 volucres reniform small ciliated sometimes elongated and 

 curved at one end (as is frequent in Athyrium) with an elongated 

 attachment. (Tab. CCXXXVIII.) — Goniopteris aristata, 

 Fee, 8me Mem. Foug. p. 253. Anisocampium Cumingianum, 

 Pr. Epimel. Bot. p. 58. Cyclodium, Moore. Aspidium 

 Otaria, Kze. Herb. Metten. Aspid. p. 34. 



Ilab. Luzon, Cuming, n. 239. Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1299. Nilghiri, Beddome. 

 E. Indies, Wallich (no locality recorded). — A very well marked Fern, imt of 

 doubtful genus. The venation may be considered as that of Pleocnemia ; the invo- 

 lucres vary in shape. There is already a Nephrodium Cumingianum, which is the 

 oldest specific name. I cannot adopt that of Otaria (bearing ears), for that is 

 oidy characteristic of a form which, among my numerous specimens, is only found 

 in Cuming's plant, the only one perhaps known to Kuuze. 



3. N. (Pleocnemia) JieterophyUum, Hook. ; caudex creep- 

 ing, stipites crowded villous and partially scaly 2-3 inches 

 long, fronds 5-6 inches long oblong-strapshaped shortly 

 acuminate lobato-pinnatifid, at the very base imperfectly pin- 

 nate with dwarfed pinnae, villous on the rachis and margins, 

 lobes ovate obtuse ; sterile ones with the veins irregularly 

 anastomosing ; fertile ones with one or two of the lowest 

 pairs only united (as in Eunephrodium) the rest free, sori 

 copious dorsal in tv^^o lines or series on each lobe between 

 the costule and the margin, involucres? — Aspidium (Nephro- 

 dium) heterophyllum, Hook. Ic. PL t. 920. Nephrodium 

 Blumei, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 411 {name only) 

 excl. the synonyms. Aspidium, Metten. Aspid. p. 98. t. 22./. 

 5 {excl.var. 2, pinnate). Haplodictyum heterophyllum, Pr. 

 Epimel. Bot. p. 51. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 309. t. 18 C.f. 2. 



Ilab. Samaar, Philippine Islands, Cuming, n. 322. — Mr. J. Smith considered 

 this Fern to be the same with the Ggmnogramme canescens, Bot. Fil. Jav. t. 133, 

 but I think hardly correctly so. Mettcnius, however, holds the same opinion, 

 and makes Cuming's n. 251 from S. Ilocas, a pinnated var. This however appears 



