82 NEPHRODH'M, § E TNEPHRODIUM. 



on the under side of the frond. Moore refers the Aspid. Hookeri, of Wallich, to 

 this species, but I think incorrectly. 



34. N. (Eunephrodium) jyetinigerum, B\., sub Aspid., not 

 Sw. ; " frond bipinnatifid (pinnate, pinnre pinnatifid) mem- 

 branaceous subpubescent on the costa above and the veins 

 beneath, pinnte (inferior ones remote smaller and subtrian- 

 gular) sessile (sul)callous at the point of insertion beneath) 

 linear-lanceolate elongated very acuminate subcuneate at the 

 base pinnatifid, segments falcato-ovate obtuse entire united 

 by a pellucid membrane lowest ones subequal, sori biseriate 

 approximate, involucres minute, rachis and stipes tetragonal 

 puberulous furrowed above." — BL En. Fil. Jav. {excl. Syn.) . 



Hab. Java, Bbime, Millet t. Penang, Lorraine, Hance, n. 136. Malay Archi- 

 pelago, Sir Wm. ISIorris. Johanna Island, East Coast of Tropical Africa ? Sir F. 

 Grey. — This is evidently a very large-growing Fern, but belonging to a group of 

 which the species are extremely difficult to define. All ray specimens from the 

 above localities quite correspond with Blume's authentic ones, save that from 

 Johanna Island, which, however, chiefly differs in its dark full green colour; 

 whereas the Malayan specimens are reddish-green. About four pairs of the 

 veinlets of each segment unite, and there is a uniting membrane between the 

 segments as in N. Lrachyodon. I do not find the smaller subtriangular lower 

 pinnae which Blume speaks of ; and there is certainly in some an approach to N. 

 abruptum, to which indeed I had referred it, at p. 78, perhaps incorrectly ; others 

 look quite peculiar, and are a foot long, falcate or straight, with very acumi- 

 nated points. 



35. N. (Eunephrodium) Fendleri, Hook.; stipes 3 feet and 

 more long brown glabrous, at the base only slightly downy 

 and scaly, frond of about the same length and more than a 

 foot broad coriaceo-membranaceous oblong-ovate pinnated, 

 pinnce (29 in my specimen) large rather distant, terminal 

 pinuce free large and petiolated, lateral ones all opposite ses- 

 sile oblong very finely acuminated 1-H inch broad pinnatifid 

 more than halfway down to the costa with ovate subfalcate 

 segments, but the very nari'ow sinus is united by a brownish 

 pellucid membrane, veins very conspicuous four or five pairs 

 uniting but again prolonged and running up on each side the 

 uniting membrane as far as the free portion of the sinus, sori 

 large very conspicuous all marginal confined to the segments 

 or not extending further down than the united portions of the 

 sinus, involucres reniform (?) corrugated in age and much con- 

 cealed by the copious pulvinate mass of capsules. — Eat. Fil. 

 Wright tt Fendl. in Mem. Acad. An. Sc. N. Ser. vol. viii. p. 

 210. 



Hab. Tovar, Venezuela, Fendler, Fil. n. 372. — A very fine and remarkable 

 species, yet so closely resembling our next species iu form aud size, and in the 



