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NEPIIRODIUM, § EUNEPIIROniUM. 7l 



species. The specific name is hardly applicahlc to the Assam plant. I possess only 

 the upper i)art of a frond, whereon there are no glands to enable me to verify the 

 species. 



18. N. (Euncplirodium) V('7msftnn, J. ^w.; "fronds gla- 

 brous lanceolate" (pinnate, the pinnae pinnatifid), "pinnae 

 lanceolate truncate at the base subsessile alternate, segments 

 falcate, sori minute marginal." — Ileto. in Ferns of Jamaica, p. 

 112 [Aspid.). J. Sni,. Cat. Gard. Ferns, p. .54. 



Ilab. Mayday Mountains, Jamaica, R. Howard. — I fear this may prove only a 

 var. of iV. rnolle, with larger and broader pinnae, and the sori more marginal than 

 usual. 



19. N. (Euncplirodium) crinipes, Hook.; stipes nearly 1 

 foot long and as well as the rachis stout and singularly erect 

 and stiff stramineous the former shaggy with copious long 

 spreading flexuose subulate dark brown scales which extend 

 some way up the rachis, frond more than 2 feet long submcm- 

 branaceous quite glabrous from a broad base oblong acumi- 

 nate copiously pinnated, pinnre 5-6 inches long less than | 

 an inch broad sessile horizontally patent from a broad base 

 linear-oblong finely acuminated pinnatifid more than halfway 

 down to the rachis Avith oblong subfalcate obtuse entire seg- 

 ments, lowest segments a little longer than the rest, lowest 

 pair of veinlets united, sori on all the veinlets and on nearly 

 every pinna large cordato-reniform very membranaceous. 



Ilab. Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 1000 feet, Hook.fil. and Thomson.— llm Fern, of 

 which we possess only a solitary specimen, has the shaggy crinite scales of the 

 stipes and racliis of AspidiHm (§ Lastrea) patentissimum of Wallich (but the 

 stipes is much longer), the pinme of N. (Lastr.) patens, and the venation of A^. 

 tnolle. The stipes and rachis are remarkably stiff and straight, and the pinnaj of 

 a pale yellowish-green, horizontally patent. 



20. N. (Eunephrodium) venulosum* Hook. ; quite gla- 

 brous, stipes 1 h foot and more long stout and together Mith 

 the rachis sharply angled brownish-green, frond 4i feet long 

 broad ovato-lanceolate acuminate subcoriaceo-raembranace- 

 ous dark green glabrous copiously pinnated, pinnrc G-\) inches 

 long 1 inch broad mostly opposite sessile oblong gradually 

 and very finely acuminated deeply more than halfway down 

 pinnatifid with oblong subfalcate subcrenate segments serrated 

 at their apex superior ones approximate inferior pairs distant 

 2 inches apart somewhat contracted at the base, lowest four 

 or five pairs suddenly and very much dwarfed 4 inches apart 

 auricled at the base above conspicuously veined, costules 



* Not Aspidium venulosum, Wall., which is Nephrod. mult ilinca turn. 



