78 NEPIIRODIUM, § KUNEPHRODIUM. 



very stout 2 feet and more ? long glabrous pubescent in age, 

 fronds ample 2-3 feet long 1-1 ^ foot broad firm coriaceo- 

 cbartaceous glabrous pinnated, pinntc large G inches to 1 foot 

 long 5-1^ inch broad subscssile from a truncated or short- 

 cuneated broad base oblong finely acuminated shortly lobato- 

 pinnatifid at the margin, lobes rounded obtuse and suberoso- 

 truncate or acute subfalcate (inclined towards the apex of the 

 pinnrc), lowest pinnie often dwarfed, costules slightly elevated 

 numerous, veinlets six eight or ten pairs (according to the space 

 between the costa and the sinus of the lobes) united and then 

 forming a spurious intermediate costule, three or four only of 

 the veinlets free within the short lobes, sori copious each on the 

 middle of the veinlets in two distinct lines or series between 

 each pair of costules never extending to the lobes, involucres 

 rotundato-cordate subciliate or glabrous soon deciduous. 

 (Tab. CCXLI. B.)— Aspidium, BL En. Fil. Jav. p. 154 (not 

 A. abruptum, Kze., which is of the Lastrea-sec\\or\) . A. 

 multilineatum, Wall. Cat. n. 353. Metten. Aspid. p. 108 (in 

 reference to Wall. Cat., but excl. N. mucronatum, /. Sm., 

 and the references to Cuming^s nos. 182 and 278). Aspid. 

 prionophyllum, JVall. Cat. n. 355 (a trifling var. with the 

 base of the pinnse contracted and these sterile). A. penni- 

 gerum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 153, not of others. A. truncatum, 

 Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Crypt, p. 333. t. 10. 



Hab. Java, Blume, in Herb. Nostr., De Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 4(5?)45, 

 543, 537, Milled. Sumatra, n. 14, and Island of Menado, n. 231, De Vriese and 

 Teijsmann. Penang, Hance, and Singapore, WalUch, Cat. n. 353. Dahumbang 

 River, Borneo, H. Low. Mobiccas, Gaudiehaud. Cevlon, Mrs. Genl. JValker, 

 Gardner, n. 1252 andWO^, Thwaites, n. 3271, elev. 2000-4000 feet. Indian Con- 

 tinent : Mishmee and Sylbet, Griffith ; Nilgbiri, Beddome. Pacific Islands : 

 Feejee, Harvey ; Solomon's group, San Christoval, Milne, n. 507 andhZl. Tro- 

 pical Africa : Fernando Po, Vogel, n. 62 and 1 24, C. Mann, n. 140, Barter ; Prince's 

 Island, Barter, n. 1924. — A very fine species, little understood because imper- 

 fectly described. It is somewhat allied to A. cyatheoides and to A.ferox, but 

 the texture and the arrangement of the sori, etc., are very different; here the 

 rows or series arc equidistant, not only each pair belonging to the respective lobes 

 of the pinnae are equidistant between the costules and the siimses, but equidis- 

 tant as regards the adjacent pairs belonging to the adjacent lobes ; thus exhibiting 

 a series of equidistant lines on the pinnae throughout. Some of my specimens 

 sufficiently accord with the description and figure of A. truncatum, Gaud., to in- 

 duce me to refer that plant here. 



30. N. (Eunephrodiura) sar/ittcefolium, Moore ; " frond bi- 

 pinnatifid" (pinnate, pinncc pinnatifid) "membranaceous on 

 both sides and as well as the rachis and stipes hirsute, pinnae 

 sessile (subcallose at the base of their insertion beneath, lowest 

 ones reflexo-imbricate dwarfed semisagittate) linear-lanceolate 



