152 NEPHROLEPIS. 



i?/M?«e (Aspid. imbricatum and A. obtusifolitim, BL), De Vriese and Teijsmann ; 

 Luzon, Cuming, n. 213. Hongkong, Urquhart, C. Wrii/ht. Loochoo, Beechnj. 

 Formosa, JJ'ilford. South Japan, /. Small. Fiji Islands, Milne, R. Oldham, 

 Brackenridge (N. obtusifolia, Pr.). Australia: Brisbane River, Mueller ; Teviot 

 River, Fraser. Norfolk Island, Simmons. New Zealand, Sinclair. South Ame- 

 rica : West Indies, Jamaica, Hartweg, n. 1508 and 1583; Mexico, Liebmann (N. 

 occidentalis, A'^e.) ; Brazil, common, Gardner, n. 4081, 5e//oj« (" N. exaltata," 

 from Herb. Hort. Reg. Berol.) ; New Granada, Morifz, Fendler, n. 161, Linden, 

 n. 318 and 6374; Peru, Matheics, n. 3290, 1106, Spruce (Tarapota), n. 4082, 

 Pfeppig (from KunzeJ, Lechler, n. 2155; Ecuador, Jameson; Guiana, De Vriese 

 (" N. solida"). — ^, pendula. Brazil, Raddi, Fox. Pichincha, Ecuador, Jameson. 

 Venezuela, Linden, n. 1690. — y, delicatula. North-west India, between Garli and 

 C?iw\eT\di. Jacquemont ; Maturan, Col. Bates ; Tavoy, JFallick, n.] 0^2 -. Khasya, 

 Hooker fil. and Thomson; Moidmein, on trees, Parish, n. 26. — A sj)ecies very 

 variable in the breadth of the frond and in the more or less crowded pinnules, 

 and, though difficult to define, easily enough distinguished when the curious 

 tubers are present on the frond, from which the species derives its specific name. 

 On the Cameroon Mountains, Mr. G. Mann has detected it on an elevation of 4500 

 feet. White, waxy, small, circular scales form dots on the upper sides of the 

 pinnffi of this and other species of the genus. 



2. N. exaltata, Schott ; stipes 1 foot and more long and 

 as well as the rachis and costee more or less villoso-paleace- 

 ous often quite glabrous, fronds subcoriaceous l|-2 feet long 

 oblong-lanceolate pinnated, pinnae 1-2-3 inches long oblong 

 more or less acuminated with a broad truncated or subcor- 

 date base parallel with the rachis with a sharp auricle above 

 and sometimes below, the margin entire or crenato-serrate, 

 sori almost quite marginal, involucres coriaceous reniform 

 with a very broad sinus. — Aspidium, Sw. Si/n. Fil. p. 45. 

 Schk. Fil. t. 32 b {a much reduced figure, ivith a 'portion of 

 the lower part of the frond only nat. size). Raddi, Fil. Bras, 

 p. 30. t. 46. Nephrolepis, Pr. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 

 100 [loho refers hither N. neglecta, Kze. in Linnaa, xiii. p. 

 148, and N. intramarginalis, Kze. I. c. xxiii. jo. 301). N. pla- 

 tyotis, Kze. in Linnoia, xxiii. jo. 312. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips, 

 p. 100. t. 2G.ff. 1-5 ? {the auricles near the middle of the frond 

 unusually large). N. hirsutula, Pr. Aspid., Schk. Fil. t. 33 

 {very good for the form, with longer and narroiver 'pinnce) . As- 

 pid. pilosum, Langsd. and Fisch. p. 14. t. 16. A. Schkuhrii, 

 BL En. Fil. Jav. p. 147 [and in Herb, nostr.). 



Ilab. Very common in tropical countries. Mexico, Liebmann (N. neglecta. 

 Are.). New Granada, Schlim, n. 221, 232, Fendler, n. 162, 370, p. 243, fide 

 Metten. (N. occv\eniA\\s, Kze. in Linnaea) n. 18, Otto,n. 657. Va.nam&, Fendler, n. 

 418, 5. Hayes, n. 171. West Indies : Jamaica, Hartiveg,n. 1508; Cuba, Wright, 

 n. 826 (N. sesquipedalis, Pr.,fide Metten.). Guiana, Rd. Schomburgk, n. 1667 .' 

 (N. ensifolia, Pr., fide KL). Brazil, Martins {" N. rufescens, Sond."), Sellow (N. 

 sesquipedalis, Raddi, KL, and N. pilosa, Pr., Kl.), Gardner, n. 1221, Spruce, n. 

 19. Peru, Lechler, n. 2515 (" N. sesquipedalis, Pr."). Ecuador, foot of Chim- 



