NEPHUOniUM, § EUNEPIIRODIUM. G9 



Fil. Jav. p. 1 19, and Gymnogramnie a])pfndiciil,'itn, Fil. Jnv. p. 92. t. Z9,Mc'tten. 

 Phegopt.p. 22; Mouliiiein, Parish; Borneo, Mollcy, Barber, Thos. Lobl). 



5. China, Beechey : Hongkong, abundant, Formosa, iVilford, terminal pinna 

 very long; Kinsin, Japan, C. Wriyht, Babiiifflon, Miss Nelson. (N. sophoroides, 



Desv.) Bonin, Mcrtcns, and Loochoo, C. Wright. 



6. Pacific Islands: Feejee, Harvey, Seemann, Milne; Aneiteum, Sunday 

 Island, Tanna, etc., Milne; Fitcairn's Island, Cuming, n. 1370; Oahu and Coral 

 Islands, Beechey (Aspid. nyniphale, Schk., and Hook, and Arn. Bot. of Beech. 

 Voy.); Norfolk ls]a.nd, all voyagers. 



7. Australia, R. Brown, Capt. Slurt ; Moreton Bay, Mueller; Teviot River, 

 Eraser ; Brown's River, Macgillivray ; Sydney, Bynoe. 



8. South America. West Indian Islands, probably universal : Jamaica, 

 Cuba, C. Wright, n. 1005 and lOOG; those which Mr. Eaton refers to A. scolo- 

 pendrioides, var. pinnata (A. sclerophyllum, Kze.) I rather consider a form of N. 

 molle. From the continent of the new world, I possess specimens from New 

 Mexico, C. Wright ; Mexico proper. Linden, n. 1505 ; from various parts of Cen- 

 tral America; Ecuador, Esmeraldas, ■/awe.?r;», Col. Hall, Spruce (no number); 

 Peru, Cmning, n. 1080; Tarapota, Eastern Peru, -S/>race, 4039 (narrow pinnas and 

 narrow segments), and 4749, "4660 ajffin.'" (broad pinnne, 1 inch broad, and broad 

 segments), and 491'9, and 4659; Brazil, frequent, Gardner, n. 1107 and 1902, 

 Sellow; Cayenne, Leinieur, and others; New Granada, Venezuela, Fendler, n. 

 176 and 190 (A. patens. Eat.), Steetz, n. 114, Schlim, n. 497. 



9. In North America, I do not find N. molle anywhere recorded as a native, 

 save by Kunze, in Silliman's Journal, as inhabiting the Southern U. States ; but this 

 proved to be A. (Lastrea) patens, Sw., as stated in Chapm. Fl. of S. U. States, p. 

 594, and at Sitka, Merteus, in Russian America, between lat 56° and 58° N. ; but 

 this latter surely needs confirmation. 



It was only to be anticipated that with a plant having so widely extended a 

 geographical range, there should be considerable variations under the ditt'erent 

 influences of soil, climate, etc., and this has led to the formation of many sup- 

 posed species ; some of these states, it must be confessed, bonier closely on several 

 others, both of tiiis and of the ia.v/rea-group, and it needs a very experienced 

 eye to distinguish them, and an able hand clearly to define them. Jacquin's 

 figure well represents the type of the species. Some fronds are truncated and 

 abrupt-as it were at the base, others have the base contracted and the pinnae there 

 dwarfed and distant. The texture is usually membranaceous, but others are siib- 

 coriaceous. The pinnx vary much in number, and in being hairy or glabrous, in 

 the length and breadth, and in the depth of the sinuses between the segments ; 

 the latter are sometimes short and as broad as long, sometimes narrow-oblong. 

 The sori are sometimes sparse, at other times densely crowded and almost con- 

 fluent. 



]5. N. (Eunephrodium) angust'ifolium, Pr. ; ^' frond ob- 

 long-lanceolate" (a span to 1^ foot long subcoriaceo-mem- 

 braiiaceous) '" pinnated, pinn£e (2-5 inches long \ of an 

 inch broad) sessile narrow linear shortly caudato-acuminate 

 pinnatifid obtuse at the base lowest ones minute subovate, 

 veins soriferous in the middle the lowest pair anastomosing, 

 indusium ciliate and hairy " (caudex in one of my specimens, 

 a j'oung plant, short erect sending down copious wiry root's). 

 — Nephrodium angustifolium, Fr. Epimel. Bot. p. 48. N. 

 mucronatum, /. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 412, in part. 

 Metten. Aspid. p. 106. 



