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niferous, stipites aggregated 1 foot and more long hispido- 

 ])aleaceous towards the base, fronds 2-2^ feet long sub- 

 coriaceo-membranaceous ovato-lanceolate acuminate glabrous 

 pinnated, pinna; rather distant numerous patent 4-0-8 inches 

 long from a cuneate base ol)long- or linear-lanceolate much 

 acuminate, lower and sterile ones i-1 inch broad and ser- 

 rated, fertile ones narrower and longer and more finely acu- 

 minated pinnatifid about halfway down to the costtC, seg- 

 ments oblong obtuse bearing a single sorus at the apex, in- 

 volucre reniform, rachis and costaj beneath very sparingly 

 paleaceous. — Kze. in Bat. Zcit. iv. p. 4G0. Mettcn. Fil. Hart. 

 Lips. p. 100. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. GO. Aspid., .9«^. %». Fil. 

 p. 48 et 247. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 242. B/. En. Fif. .Jav. p. 

 148. Hook. Ic. PI. iv. t. 395-6. Ophioglossum acumina- 

 tum, Houtt. Linn. PJl. x. p. 5.3. t. 94./. 3. 



Hat). Java, in wooded mountains, Thunberg, Millett, Thos. Lohb, De Vriese 

 and Teijsmanit, n. 337. — This and the following are very peculiar species. The 

 present, as far as yet known, is only found in the mountain-woods of Java. 



6. N. floccigera, Moore ; caudex ?, stipes ?, frond 2-3 feet 

 long coriaceo-membranaceous broad-lanceolate furfuraceo- 

 paleaceous beneath, pinnated, pinnce numerous patent 4-6 

 inches and more long from a subtruncated and sometimes 

 sliglitly auriculated base oblong acuminated, inferior and 

 sterile ones ^-f of an inch broad entire or serrated oidy 

 towards the apex, upper and fertile narrower and longer 

 much and finely acuminated crenato-dentate or at the apex 

 pinnatifido-dentate, teeth usually bidentate, segments of the 

 apex entire, sori marginal, one on each tooth or lobule. — As- 

 pidium, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 149. 



Ilah. Island of Celebes, Blume, in Herb, nontr. Java, Millett, Thos. Lobb. 

 — Blunie compares this with " Aspid. bidentatum, Spr." However nearly it may 

 be allied to that (whatever that may be), it has a close affinity with our prece- 

 ding si)ecies ; so much so, that were the floccidose pubescence the only charac- 

 ter, 1 should be disposed to consider it a variety of that ; but the ])inn;e are 

 never more than crenato-lobate, and the teeth are again bidentate, the superior 

 ones only subpinnatifid : in both species the sorus is upon the tooth or lobule, 

 whereas in most of the species of N^e/)hrolepis the venule that bears the sorus is 

 directed to the shins of the teeth or lobes. My specimens oi Aspid. floccigerum, 

 Bluine, from Celebes, are quite uniform wi;h those of Millett and Thos. Lohb 

 from Java. 



Of the genus Nephrolepis, I have no authentic knowledge of ^V. rhizodes, Kze. 

 Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 236; N. Zollimjcriana, paleacea, pendula. nwl depaiiperata, of \)i> 

 Vriese ; nor of N. occidentalis, Kze. in Linnxa, xviii. p. 2 13. 



