NEPHRODIUM, § EUN EPHRODI UM. 79 



elongate acuminate pinnatifid, the segments falcato-oblong 

 obtuse entire connected by a membrane lowest one above 

 larger sometimes rellexed, sori l)iseriate confluent, involucre 

 obselete." — Aspidium sagittccfolium, Bl. En. Fil.Jcw.]). 153. 



Ilab. Mountains of Java, lUimie, in Herb. Nostr., De Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 

 202, hairy on the veins beneath, and in every respect identical with Bkime's 

 plant. Malacca, Griffith, frond quite glabrous, stipes below hairy with copious 

 subulate scales. — The very reduced sagittjcform inferior pinnuc are indeed very re- 

 markable, but the general structure of the pinnae and the venation and arrange- 

 ment of the sori are almost identical with our N. abruptum. I do not find 

 dwarfed lower pinn;u in this group of Ferns to be constant. Blurae says, " a tribus 

 priccedentibus {A. stipellatuni, A. callosum, and A. pennigeruni) dilfert hirsutie 

 frondis, lacinia infinia sursum elongata sajpe reflexa, stipite piuuulis seraisagittatis 

 quasi-imbricato." 



31. N. (Eunephrodium) augescens, Fee; caudex stout 

 long-creeping, stipites 1-2 feet long ascending and slightly 

 paleaceous at the base, fronds broad-ovate 1-3 feet long gla- 

 brous above, more or less downy beneath, coriaceous pinnate, 

 pinnte sessile 5-10 inches or a foot long \-h an inch broad 

 very long and finely acuminated more or less deeply and 

 uniformly pinnatifid serrated at the apex, segments triangu- 

 lar-ovate subfalcate very acute or short and obtuse, terminal 

 pinna the largest and longest, lowest pairs of veinlets 

 united, involucres pubescent. — Aspidium augescens. Link. Fil. 

 Hort. Reg. Bot. Berol.p. 103. Kze. inSchk. SiippL i. p. 134. 

 /. 59. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips.^j.dl. Aspid. p. 88. Aspid. 

 Serra, Eat. Fil. Fendl. et Wright, p. 210. — Sloane, Jam. /?. 90. 

 t.AS.f. 1. 



Hab. Jamaica, Sloane, Wilson, Purdie. Cuba, C. Wright, n. 923. — A very 

 peculiar species, well represented both in Sloane and by Kunze, varying extremely 

 iu size, from a span to 4 feet long, including the stipes. 



32. N. (Eunephrodium) propinquum, Br. ; caudex very 

 long creeping sometimes copiously and luxuriantly rooting 

 as if growing in watery places, stipites varying much in 

 length from 1-2 feet, fronds subcoriaceous 1-2 feet long gla- 

 brous or often more or less pubescent resinoso-glandulose 

 especially beneath reddish-brown when dry rather glossy 

 pinnated, pinnec numerous shortly petiolate 3-5 inches long 

 \-\ an inch or more wide linear-lanceolate acute rather tlian 

 acuminate sometimes Ijroader and cuneate at the' base some- 

 times contracted pinnatifid one-third or halfway down to the 

 costa, the segments rounded or ovate obtuse or acute, veinlets 

 curved one or two of the lowest opposite pair united, sori 

 near the middle of the veins or submarginal sometimes con- 



