NEPIIRODIUM, § EUNEPHRODIUM. 7^ 



abbreviated and the terminal pinna very large elongated 

 coarsely crcnate or entire, of the fertile jilant the sti|)es is 

 8-10 inches long, the pinnae narrower acuniinate, five to 

 eight of the vcinlets united in pairs, sori aj)proximate at 

 length confluent, involucres renifurni persistent corrugated 

 on the back and margin shortly setose or glandulose." 

 Mett. — Aspidium lineatum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 144 {not 

 Wall.). Metten. Aspid. p. 110. Nephrodium, Pr. Epimel. 

 Bot. p. 48. Nephrod. acrostichoides, /. >S'/«. in Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. iii. p. 111. Cyclodium, /. Sm. I. c. p. 199. Prone- 

 phrium, Pr. Epimel. p. 259. Gymnogramme macrotis, Kze. 

 Aspid. affine, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 118. Pronephrium, Pr. 

 Epimel. Bot. p. 259. Nephrodium auriculare, Pr. Epim. 

 I. c. p. 258. A. obscurum ?, Bl. En. Fil. p. 150. Metten. 

 Aspid. p. 109, fronds 2 feet long, and pinnae large in pro- 

 portion. 



Hab. Java, Blume. Bantam, Blume (A. affine, in Herb. Nostr. from Blume). 

 Luzon, Cuming, n. 149 (Nephrod. acrostichioides, /. Sm.). Ceram, De Vriese and 

 Teijsmann, n. 589. Indian Archipelago, Seemann, n. 2297 (exactly correspond- 

 ing with Bkime's A. ojjtne). Bootan, Grijfitk (corresponding with J. Smith's 

 Nephrod. acrostlch.). Anil)oyna {ex Herb. Webb), fertile fronds quite those of 

 Cuming's n. 149. Large form ? Java, Blume, Asp. obscurum, Bl. ? — Possessing, 

 as I do, authentic specimens of most of the synonyms brought by Mettenius under 

 this species (and they are by no means few), I yet feel utterly incompetent to define 

 it, there are so many trifling variations in the different specimens, so that I jjrefer 

 giving Mettenius's character of the species. I am most doubtful of the A. ob- 

 scurum of Bl., which I have referred hither ; but, except in size, I do not see 

 how it differs. It has the abbreviated lovFer pinnae very decided. 



25. N. (Eunephrodium) Amboinense, Pr. ; "stipes 1-3 

 inches long slightly pilose above, fronds membranaceous 

 nearly glabrous sprinkled beneath with minute sessile glands 

 6 inches long lanceolate acuminate pinnated, pinnae five pairs, 

 1 T^ inch long 4 lines wide subsessile from a subcuneate base 

 below truncate above oblong acuminate pinnatifidly crenate 

 entire at the apex, the superior ones confluent into a terminal 

 elongated and attenuated pinna pinnatifid at the base, vcinlets 

 three or four pairs uniting, sori in the middle of two or three 

 of the costules, involucre reniform membranaceous tender 

 shortly setose at tiie margin." Metten. — Aspid. Amboinense, 

 Willd. Sp. PL V. p. 228. Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 148. Metten. 

 Aspid. p. 105. Nephrodium, Pr. 



Hab. Java and the Moluccas, Blume, in Herb. Nosfr., Millett, Zollinger, n. 

 IGOl {Metten.). — Mettenius's character here given, sufficiently accords with my 

 Java specimen from Blume, and from .Mr. Millett ; yet these have not the ap- 



