76 XEPHRODIUM, § KUNEPHRODIUM. 



pearance of having arrived at full maturity. I could fancy it possible they might 

 be young yet fertile states of N. Uneatum, or even of very young N. Arbuscula. 



26. N. (Eunephrodium) glandulosum, J. Sm, [not Hook, et 

 Arn.) ; stipites a foot and more long, fronds firm-membrana- 

 ceous 1-1 i foot long asperous on the surface with minute 

 raised points (scarcely glandulose) and slightly villous on the 

 veins ])eneath ovate-oblong subdimorphous pinnated, pinnae 

 5-18, those of the sterile frond 3-G inches long and 1-2 inches 

 wide from a broad truncated sessile or petiolated base ellip- 

 tical-oblong shortly and suddenly acuminated subentire or 

 more or less coarsely lobato-serrate at the margin, the apices 

 entire, fertile fronds with pinnfe smaller 2-34 inches long 

 from an obtuse or truncated base sometimes with a small 

 auricle above oblong gradually but obtusely acuminated en- 

 tire or crenato-serrate at the margin, veinlets numerous 

 (10-12 pairs) which are all united in the large sterile pinnre, 

 four or five pairs in the fertile ones all soriferous in the middle, 

 involucres small cordato-reniform. — Aspidium, Bl. En. Fit. 

 Jav. p. 144. Metten. Aspid. p.Wl. Nephrodium, /. >^m. m 

 Hook. Journ. Bot. p. 411. N. latifolium, Pr. Epim. Bat, p. 

 45. Cyclodium, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 85. Abacopteris Philip- 

 pinarum, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 310. t. 18. c. G.f. 1. 



Hab. Java, Blume, in Herb. Nosfr. Island of Leyte, Cuming, n. 298. Assam, 

 Griffith. — A well-marked and handsome species, more or less dimorphous ; one 

 of my specimens however has large and sterile pinnae on one half the frond, and 

 smaller and fertile ones on the other. — From Madagascar I have a fragment of a 

 frond of a Nephrodium allied to this, but unquestiona])ly distinct, yet too im- 

 perfect for description ; the portion includes the base, and is 16 inches long, with 

 eight very distinct pairs of opiiosite, horizontal, petiolated pinnae, 4i inches 

 long, oblong-'.anceolate, creiiato-sinuate, perfectly glabrous and smooth on both 

 sides : venation as in JV. glandulosum, but the veinlets are more distant ; the sori 

 are larger and of a very dark brown colour. The pinnx are 2 and 2^ inches 

 apart. The species may be called N. distansi Hook. 



27. N. (Eunephrodium) ajatheoides, Kaulf. ; caudex? stipes 

 a span and probably much more long stout castaneous glossy, 

 fronds 1^ foot and more long subcoriaceo-membranaceous 

 dark blackish-green when dry glabrous in age l|-2 feet and 

 more long and more than a foot wide pinnated to the very 

 apex, pinnae numerous approximate petiolate 6-8-10 inches 

 long f-1 inch broad from a truncated base elongato-oblong 

 finely acuminated often falcate subentire or pinnatifid den- 

 tate at the margin, teeth or segments various in length and 

 very irregular acute sometimes giving a ragged or laciniated 

 appearance to the margin, costules slender horizontal ter- 



