136 XEPIIRODIUM, § LASTREA. 



narrow wing to the rachis ol)long an inch and more long very 

 acute coarsely and very acutely almost pungently serrate or 

 pinnatifid, veinlets simple or once or twice forked, sori ge- 

 nerally one or two to each tooth or lohule of the pinnule. 

 (Tab.'CCLXV.)— Polypodium, J. Sm. En. Fil. Philipp. in 

 Hook. Journ. Hot. iii. p. 394. Lastrea, Cat. of Gurd. Ferns, p. 

 57- Metten. Aspid. p. 114. Lastrea elegans, ^'^ Moore, En. 

 of Cult. Ferns." J. S7n. Cat. Card. Ferns, p. 57 [according to 

 Mr. Moore). 



Hab. Philippine Islands, Cuming., n. 96. Java, De Vriese and Teij.imann. 

 Ceylon, Gardner, 137-1, 1110 (some specimens 2 feet and more long, copiously 

 tripinnate). Tongloo, Moulmein ?, Parish, n. 98 (racliises and fronds glaijrous, 

 pinnules less decurrent). 'SWgherr'ies, Sir F. Adam. Dindygiil, Wiffht {2-3 feet 

 long). Sikkim-IIimalaya and Simla, Hook. fil. and Thomson, n. 264 a ? (larger, 

 racliises which bear the pinnules more broadly winged, stipites and main rachises 

 quite glabrous. — Fern-botany is unfortunately overwhelmed with published «fl»jes 

 of gardens (" Hortulanorum ") and of private herbaria, which are largely circu- 

 lated, unaccompanied by description or specific character. The labour of all that 

 is left to others, while their names are expected to be adopted. Happily in the 

 present case, we can refer to the original authority for the plant, in Mr. Cuming's 

 n. 26, from Luzon, from which I h.ave drawn up my character. Lastrea elegans 

 is a Fern of Moore and Iloulston, which Mr. Moore himself now refers to J. 

 Smith's L. recedens. I believe my Ceylon specimens to be identical with those 

 from Luzon, but 1 am doubtful of those from Simla and Sikkim, and from Moul- 

 mein ; they seem to pass into other forms, which I cannot venture to name satis- 

 factorily. 



128. N. (Lastrea) furcatum, Hook.; " frond tripinnatifid 

 (tripinnate), rachises and stipes brown evanescently puberu- 

 lous furrowed above densely clothed with small lanceolate 

 acuminated scales, pinnae hi- or tripinnatifid (tripinnate?) 

 petiolate oblong subobtuse patent the lower ones auricled, 

 pinnules pinnatifid or bipinnatifid (bipinnate ?) oblong sub- 

 cordate at the base obtuse decurrent towards the apex, seg- 

 ments oblong obtuse pinnatifid serrated repand or entire, in- 

 volucres reniform glabrous brown." A7. — Aspidium, A7. in 

 Linnaa, XK. p. 3^1. Lastrea, Moore. 



Hab. Tropical America: Columbia, Moritz, n. 37 (A7.), Linden, n. 124, 177, 

 and 1020 ; Panama, Cuming, n. 1300, 5. Hayes, n. 376 ; Organ Mountains, Brazil, 

 Gardner, n. 189 ; Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Sjjruce, n. 3942; foot of Chimborazo, 

 alt. 3000 feet. Spruce, n. 5716 .' — I possess an authentic specimen of this species, 

 which enables me to give other stations besides that of Moritz. If I am correct 

 in referring Spruce's two Ferns and Mr. S. Hayes's n. 376 (which I have no rea- 

 son to doubt) here, the base of the stipites is for several inches clothed with a very 

 dense mass of ferruginous long silky wool, and the pinnce and pinnules vary much 

 in size, especially in breadth. 



129. N. (Lastrea) oppositum., Hook.; caudex ?, stipes and 

 main rachis pubescent and paleaceous with rather sparse 



