NEPIIKODIUM § LASTREA. Ill 



broad lowest one or two pairs deflexed and subpetiolatc op- 

 posite or suliopposite sessile oblong-lanceolate more or less 

 acuminate deeply pinnatifid, segments oljlong obtuse straight 

 or subfalcate entire or the lowest ones crenate subpinna- 

 tifid at tlieir base, costre beneath pubescent and more or less 

 scaly and subcrinite, veinlets numerous simple each bearing 

 a sorus near the middle, involucres small reniform membra- 

 naceous soon deciduous. — Polypodium, Foiret, in Enc. Bot. 

 Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. Gfi. Aspidium, JVull. Cat. n. 357. 

 Polypod, fusco-setaceum, Bojcr, in Herb. Nostr. Aspidium 

 strigosum, JVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 249. Met ten. J.yrid. p. 89. 

 Aspid. pauciflorum, K/f. in Sieb. Syn. n. 44, and Fl. Mixt. n. 

 312. Metten. Aspid. p. 88. Aspid. nitidum, Bory, in Willd. 

 Sp. Fl. \. p. 25\ , and i)i Herb. Nostr . Aspid. sulcatum, Klf. 

 in Sieb. FL Mixt. n. 288, and Syn. FiL p. 46. Metten. Aspid. 

 p. 89. 



Hah. Mauritius, abundant. Bourbon, in Herb. Nostr. ex Herb. Mus. Paris. 

 .I;iva, Blume, in Herb. Nostr. (marked " Jsjnd. sefosum"). Millet, T/ios. Lobb. — ■ 

 This plant varies uiuch in size, and a good deal in the relative breadth of the lo])es, 

 but perfect specimens are easily recognized ; in an old stale, the involucres and 

 the remarkably crinite scales are equally deciduous. — Dr. Blume's ^^ Aspid. se/o- 

 sum " in my herbarium from Java, though an inditferent specimen, seems quite 

 the same as crinitum from Mauritius. 



90. N. (Lastrea) Borneense, Hook. ; caudex procumbent 

 crinite vrith scattered subulate long scales and hair-like setre, 

 stipes 4-.5 inches long terete as well as the rachis^ frond ob- 

 long-ovate 1-H foot long subcoriaceo-membranaceous acu- 

 minate glabrous pinnate pinnatifid at the apex, ])innae 3-4 

 inches long sul)opj)osite lanceolate acuminate straight or sub- 

 falcate lower ones petiolate (the petiole winged) tiie rest ses- 

 sile and subdecurrent so that the rachis is winged in the 

 u])per part of the frond deeply pinnatifid, lobes oblong acute 

 pinnatifid with obtuse lobules, veinlets oblique simple each 

 bearing a sorus near the middle, involucres rather broad re- 

 niform subcoriaceous firm persistent (often rich scarlet) the 

 axis not in the direction of the vein but oblique rather in- 

 clined towards the costule, upper part of the rachis and cos- 

 tules beneath glanduloso-pubesccnt. — Lastrea, Hook. Ic. PL 

 t. 993 [or Century of Ferns, t. 93), 



llab. Sarawak, Borneo, on limestone rocks, Thos. Lobb. — This is a very remark- 

 able plant. The oidy specimen I possessed at the time my figures and descriptions 

 were made, liad a considerable tinge of red on the frond, and especially on the invo- 

 lucres. I have since received a more perfect specimen fron\ the same locality, from 

 " limestone hills," of which the stipes and racliis and the frond, the under side espe- 



