NEPHRODIUM, § LASTREA. 93 



etc., are a good deal those of our Nephrod. Wcbbinitum from Amboytia, but these 

 want the creeping filiform caudex, and the joint of the stipes. 



56. N. (Lastrea) gracilescens. Hook. ; caudex rather tliick 

 liorizoiital creeping on the surface of the ground scaleless 

 copiously rooting l)eneath, stipites very niunerous and 

 crowded on the upper surface of the caudex slender a span 

 to a foot long stramineous-brown, fronds a span to \h foot 

 and more long membranaceous oblong-ovate or sublanccolate 

 acuminate jiinnated, pinnatitid at the apex, pintue sessile 

 2-3-4 inches long nearly h an inch wide oblong acuminate 

 deeply pinnatifid, segments oblong obtuse plane quite entire, 

 veitis distant all simple, sori small nearer the margin of the 

 segments than the costules, involucres small reniform gla- 

 brous soon obsolete. — Aspidium, Bl. En. Fil. Jew. p. 155. 

 Aspidium, Hook. Ketv Gard. Misc. ix. p. .838. Aspid. The- 

 lypteris, Benth. Fl. Hongkong, {vix Sw.) A. glanduligerum, 

 Kze. Anakcta Pteridogr. p. 44 .^ Metten. Aspid. p. 86. 



Hah. Java, Blume, in Herb. Nostr., De Vrieae and Teijsmann, n. 548 .' Nepal ? 

 Wallich (large). Khasya, Griffith. Simla, Hooker fil. el Thomson, h. 247. b. 

 North-west India .', Edf/worth (frond downy). Hongkong, Ilarland, Ilance, IFil- 

 ford, n. 170. North China, Alexander. — Mr. Bentham refers this to the Euro- 

 pean N. Thdtipterin. hut of the correctness of this I feel doubtful ; the venation is 

 that of the North American Noveboracense rather than of Thelypteris, and the 

 margins of the segments are not revolute, nor the sori so near the margin. Nor 

 am I sure but what I have myself brought here specimens which are at variance 

 with the true gracilescens of Blume, viz. such as have the lower pinnae more or 

 less dwarfed. 



57. N. (Lastrea) caharuhmi. Hook.; "frond bipinnatifid 

 (viz. pinnate with the pinnae pinnatifid) membranaceous be- 

 neath pubescent at the costa, pinn£e sessile lanceolate acute 

 deeply pinnatifid, segments linear rather obtuse entire, the 

 lowest superior one longer obsoletely serrulate, sori sparse, 

 stipes elongated and as well as the rachis glabrous grooved 

 on the upper side and ])ul)erulous." Bl. — Aspidium calcara- 

 tum, BL En. Fil. Jav. p. 159. Aspid. Reinwardtianum, Kze. 

 Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 261 ? Metten. Aspid. p. 86? Aspid. cilia- 

 turn, Wall. Cat.n. 351. — Var. /3, minutely pubescenti-viscid. 

 Lastrea viscosa, /. Sm. in Hook. Bot. Joiirii. m. p. 412 [name 

 only) . 



Hal). Java, Blume, in Herb. Nostr., Thos. Lobb. IMoulmein, Thos. Lobb, Pa- 

 rish, n. 94. Hongkong, Dr. Dill, Wilford, n. 40. Nepal, Wallich. Assam, 

 Griffitli. Khasya, Simoiis, Hooker fil. and Tliomson. Boutan, Booth. Nilghiri, 

 M'/vor. Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1107, 1235, 1303. — Var. $. Malacca, Cuming, n. 

 401. Borneo, Thos. Lobb. — Having authentic si)eciniens of Blunie's plant from 

 himself, 1 select such specimens from other collectors as I think accord with 



