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Eimco, Society Islands, and Ovalaii, Fiji Islands. — Well distinguished h\ the 

 cojiious scales (quite different from those of the rachis, which clothe the hack of 

 the frond) upon the costx and costulcs, almost looking as if they were infested 

 with minute scale-insects. — From Assam and Khasya [Griffit/i) 1 have a Nep/iro- 

 dium which I can hardly distinguish from this. 



143. N. (Lastrea) velutinum. Hook. fil. ; caudcx ?, stipes a 

 foot and more long pubescent reddish-brown, clothed at the 

 base with very long and broad subulate scales, frond 1-1 ^ 

 foot long (l)ro\vnish when dry) soft niend)ranaceous velvety 

 on both sides clothed with copious soft silky hairs and often 

 pellucidly and glandularly beneath, deltoid or five-angled acu- 

 minate tripinnate rarely and only at the base subqua(lri]Vmnate, 

 primary pinnoe 4 inches to 1 foot long-petiolcd as wellastlie 

 secondary ones broad-oblong acuminate, the l)asal pair half- 

 ovate, the lowest inferior pinna3 being the longest dctlexed and 

 most compound, pinnules sessile scarcely anywhere decur- 

 rent oblong acute deeply pinnatifid, the segments and ultimate 

 pinnules ovate obtuse serrate or subpinnatifid, pinnules simi)le 

 or forked, sori small one to each segment, involucres hairy 

 red-brown sometimes fringed with glands, rachis and costcC 

 generally rufo-velutinous. — Hook. fil. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. p. 39. 

 /. 80 [excellent ; " N. moUe " o)i the plate by mistake). Aspid., 

 A. Rich. Nov. Zel. p. 70. 



Hal). New Zealand, D'Urvil/e (A. Richard), Colenso, All. Cunninyhnm, Hooker 

 fil. Middle Island, Ilouraki Gulf, and Banks' Peninsula, Ih-. Lijall. — Well de- 

 scrihed by Achille Richard, and well figured by Dr. Hooker, e.\cej)t that the large 

 scales at the base of the stipes are not sutRciently copious. It is very distinct 

 from N. decompositum, Br. 



{Polystichoid : habit of Polystichum. Sp. 144-151.) 



144. N. (Lastrea) amplissimum, Hook.; "frond coriaceous 

 ovate quadripinnate, pinnae long petiolate ovate, pinnules 

 petiolate oblong-lanceolate, primary ones very acute, ter- 

 tiary pinnatifid and as well as the secondary ones obtuse, 

 segments oblong obtuse ciliated monosorous uni-l)i-tridciiti- 

 culate, superior ones dentiform, rachises paleaceous, eostie 

 convex on both sides." Pr. — Polystichum, Pr Ten/. Pterid. 

 p. 84. Epimel. Bot. p. 58. Aspidium, Metten. Aspid. p. 08. 

 Lastrea fallax, Hort. 



Hal). Brazil, '' Beijrich" Sellow, in Jltrb. Nosh:, Gardner, u. 191 axd 5<Mf) 

 (I can hardly distinguish from this the Phcyopteris divergetis. Eat. Plant. Wright, 

 and Fendl., Cuba, C. U'riyht. n. 831, save tiiat the sori oy/i/ypa;- destitute of involu- 

 cre). — I must refer to the characters and descriptions of I'resl and Mettenius lor 

 all that is written on this species. My authentic specimens come very near inir- 

 row -segmented forms of N. eacultum, and to Phegopt. divergenn among the 

 Nudisori. 



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