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nine, lowest ones forming costal arches, superior ones undi- 

 vided free or forked, hence forming costular areoles, uppermost 

 ones fertile, sori on each side the costule of the lacinicc four 

 to six in one series near tlie margin, indusium reniforni very- 

 small fringed with undivided or forked hairs longer than the 

 indusium."— Aspidium dissidens, Metten. Aspid. ;;. 1 IG. Po- 

 lypodium oligocarpum, Herb, t^preng. 



Hal). Portorico {Metten.). — This is quite unknown to me. Mettenius groups 

 it with the P/eocJiemia-section, but he does not allude to its affinities. 



13. N. (Eunephrodium) Javanicum, Hook. ; caudex short 

 stout erect paleaceous, as are the short robust tufted stipites, 

 with finely acuminated deciduous scales, fronds 2 feet and 

 more long villous especially on the veins and rachides beneath 

 subcoriaceousovato-oblong long caudato-acuminate much atte- 

 nuated below, pinnate, pinnae numerous approximate s})read- 

 ing 4-5 inches long ^ of an inch wide from a broad truncated 

 sessile base gradually tapering into a fine acuminated entire 

 point pinnatifid, scarcely auricled at the base, many of the 

 lowest ones contracted small suljtriangular and these extend 

 almost to the base of the stipes, lobes oblong-ovate obtuse 

 ciliated the margin entire sometimes recurved, vcinlets nume- 

 rous approximate two or three lowest pairs united all sorife- 

 rous near the middle, involucre subhippocrepiform hairy on 

 the back fringed with glandular hairs and attached beyond 

 the middle to an elongated receptacle. — Hook. Fil. Exot. tab. 

 61. Alesochkena Javanica, Br. Mss. Metten. Fit. Hort. Lips. 

 p. 96. /. 18./. 13 (excellent). Aspid. p. 103. M. aspleni- 

 oides, J. Sm. in Gen. of Ferns, p. 71. Sph£erostephanos, ./. 

 Sm. in Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 24 (the analysis by Bauer very 

 faulty). Polypodium caudigerum, JVall. Cut. n. 298. Steg- 

 nogramme Mesochlrena, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 204. Aspidium 

 poiycarpum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 156. 



Ilab. Malay Islands: Ja\?i, Blimie, De Vriese and Teijsmann, Millett, Thos. 

 Lobb ; Singapore and Penang, ll'allich, G. Porter, Sir Wm. Norris ; Island of 

 Nusa Kanittagan, Bliime ; Moluccas {Brown in Herb. L'armichael) . — A Fern of the 

 Malay Islands, whose fructification had, till lately, been greatly misunderstood. 

 It is a true Nepbrodinm, with the receptacle of the involucre more elongated than 

 usual, hence giving it a horseshoe-like form, as is not unfrequent in Etiaxpidittm, 

 and showing no small aftinity with that of Didt/mochhena. (See more full de- 

 scription in ' Filices Exoticae,' I.e.) 



14. N. (Eunephrodium) molle, Desv. ; caudex stout hori- 

 zontal short densely rooting, stipites a span to a foot and 

 more long, fronds rather soft-mcmbranaceous 1-2 feet long 



