70 NEPIIRODIUM, § EUNEPHRODIUM. 



Hab. Luzon, Cuming, n. 268, in part. — I retain this as a species with great hesi- 

 tation, and mainly because iny only specimen with any root to it shows a short 

 erect caudex ; but as this is on a young though fertile ])lant, it may not be in 

 a perfect state. If the perfect state should prove to be a creeping root, then I do 

 not see how it is to be distinguished from A.ip. mnllfi. I have already observed that 

 that species has not unfrequently several of the lower pinna; dwarfed and minute. 



16. N. (Eunephrodium) stipellatum, Hook.; "frond bi- 

 pinnatifid subcoriaceous pubescent on each side the rachis 

 and on the veins beneath, pinnoe (fertile ones narrower) ses- 

 sile (furnished beneath at the union with the rachis with a 

 palea) linear-lanceolate acuminate truncate at the base pin- 

 natifid, the segments subfalcato-oblong obtuse entire united by 

 a pellucid thin membrane, lowest one above a little longer than 

 the rest^ sori biseriate approximate, involucres glabrous, stipes 

 glabrous channelled above." — Aspid. BL En. F'U. Jav. p. 152. 



Hal). Java, Blame. — Possessing, as I do, from the author only a fragment with 

 four sterile pinnules of this Fern, I can throw no new light on this Fern. Dr. 

 Blurae gives its affinity as with Axp. sophoroides (A. molle, Sw.), with which in- 

 deed the sterile pinnas and the venation quite agree ; there are, however, present at 

 the base of each pinna beneath, not what I should call a " palea," but a subulate 

 fleshy gland, quite unlike that of N. hirsutum, our next species. 



17. N. (Nephrodium) hirsutum, J . ^m. ; stipes and prin- 

 cipal portion of the rachis villous with long soft close-pressed 

 hairs, fronds 3-4 feet long ovatn-lanceolate acuminate mem- 

 branaceous \\ foot and more wide pinnated slightly hairy on 

 the costcE above glabrous and minutely glanduloso-resiniferous 

 beneath, pinnse very numerous approximate sessile 10 inches 

 long in the broadest part of the frond and nearly an inch 

 wide linear-oblong finely acuminate truncated at the base 

 uniformly pinnatifid about halfway down to the costa, at the 

 base beneath on the rachis is a large conspicuous disciform 

 scale or gland chiefly present on the lower half of the frond, 

 segments ovato-oblong subfalcate entire rather obtuse, one or 

 two of the lowest pairs of veinlets combined, sori most co- 

 pious on the upper half of the frond near the middle of all 

 the veinlets, involucres glabrous. (Tab. CCXL. B.) — /. 

 Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 412 {name only). Pr, Epimel. 

 Bot. p. 48. Aspid., Metten. Asjnd. p. 107- 



Hab. Luzon, Cuming, n. 82. Assam, Simon.i, n. 279? — First described by Presl, 

 who entirely overlooked the remarkable glandular disc at the base of the pinnae, 

 but says " affine Nep/ir. appendiculato, N. molli, et A^. nymphali" (all one species 

 with us). The upper half of the frond, where this gland is wanting, can indeed 

 scarcely be distinguished from iV. molle ; but, tiiking into consideration the great 

 size of the frond, the presence of this large gland on the inferior half of the 

 rachis, and the minute resinous glandular dots beneath, it may safely rank as a 



