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borazo, pendulous from the briinclies of trees, sterile fronds sometimes 12 feet 

 long, Sjj)-)ice, n. 5727. Pacific Isles : Otalieitc and Pitcairn's Isles, rufo-paleaeeo- 

 liirsute, Mn//u'ws, m. 6, Cuming, n. 1-119 and l.'JSl. Isle of Pines and Fiji, 

 Milne, Sveniauu, Ilarcey. Oaliu, Seemann, Brackenruh/e. Uinik Island, Mac- 

 yillivray. Teviot River, Australia, Fraser. Tropical West Africa, souili of tiie 

 line, Curror (rufo-pubeseent). Indian Continent: most abundant from the Ma- 

 dras Peninsula {Wight, n. 27) in the West, to Himalaya, Bliotan, and Mouhnein 

 {Parish, n. 54) in the East, Waliich, n. 1031, Hohenacker, PI. Ind. Or. n. GOO 

 (N. liirsutula,P»-.). China, Alexander; Hongkon;;, ^anc(?, Jl'ilford, Vachell, Wright 

 (" N. hirsutula, Pr."). Ceylon, Mrs. Gent. Walker, Gardner, n. 1089. Malay 

 Archipelago: Malacca, Cuming, n. 40G, Griffith (N. volubilis, J.Sni.); Java, 

 Blinne (membranaceous pimiiE falcate, Aspid. ensifolium, Bl. ; common form, A. 

 liirsntulum, BL, and A. Schkuhrii, Bl.), De Vriese and Tcijsmann, n. 343, 353 

 (Sumatra), 335, 349, 348 (Ternate), Singapore, Prince of Wales Island, etc. — 

 JN^imerous as are the above localities, I have restricted myself very much to such 

 specimens as have been circulated with numbers, or as have well-authenticated 

 names. Judging from many of my specimens, I fear the form of the involucre is 

 variable, sometimes, in age especially, scarcely distinguishable from that of N. 

 acuta, while others, particularly in a young state, very much resemble those of 

 N. luberosa, which constitutes a ditl'erent genus according to Fee. 



3. N. acuta, Pr. ; stipites 1-2 feet long suhpaleaceous with 

 subulate long ciliated scales mixed with longer ones terete 

 very smooth olivaceous, fronds 2-4 and more feet long 8-12 

 inches broad oblong-lanceolate nieniljranaceous more or less 

 firm horizontal :7-l inch broad sword-shaped (oblong-lanceo- 

 late) distant more or less acute or acuminate obliquely trun- 

 cat(j-cuneate at the base, entire or serrated or irregularly 

 and coarsely crenate rarely subauriculate, lower ones oblong- 

 elliptical obtuse, sori distant from the margin but nearer 

 to it than to the costa, involucres cordate when young, almost 

 orbicular. — Aspid. acutum, Schk. Fil.p. 32. t. 31. Siv. Sijn. 

 Fil. p. 46. Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 220. Aspid. splendens, 

 IVilld. Sp. PL I.e. p. 220. Bl. En. Fil. Jav.p. 147, and in Herb, 

 nostr. Aspid. paludosum, Ruddi, Fil. Bras. p. 29. Nephro- 

 lepis biserrata, J. Sm. in Hook. Bot. Journ. iii. p. 413. Sieb. 

 Syn. Fil. n. 39, and Sw. ? vix Schk. Fil. t. 33 c'^ {pinna only). 

 — /8, suhfcrruginea; rachises and costae ferrugineo-hirsutu- 

 lous beneath. Arana-panna, Rheede, Hort. Malub. xii. p.Gl. 

 t. 31. 



Ilab. India, Rheede, Klein. Java, Blitnie, Zollinr/pr, v. 146, De I'rie.te and 

 Teijsniann, n. 339. Borneo, De Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 55. Malacca, (Iriffilh. 

 l.uzon, Cuming, u. 22. Mouhnein, Parish, n. 55. China: Hongkong, L'rqu- 

 harf, Wilford. Ceylon, Mrs. Genl. Walker. Pacific Islands, Society Islands, 

 Bidirill, Cuming, n. 1480. .Vneiteum and Fiji Islands, and Frankland Islands, and 

 Dunk Island, Milne, MacgilUirray, Harvey, Seemann. Isle of Pines, Milne. 

 Navigators' islands. Tropical East Coast of Australia, .7//. Cunningliam. Mauri- 

 tius, iVeier, e/c. Tropical East Africa: Galega Island and Madagascar, /%>r,- 

 Johanna Island, Speke. West Africa, Vogel, Barter, Ansell ; Abeokuta, Irving ; 

 Sencgamhia, Herb. Mas. Par. South America: 15ra/,il, /iW//? (As|i. paludosnm), 



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