170 POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYTODIUM. 



once forked near or above the middle not extending to the mar- 

 gin, upper branch bearing the sorus chiefly in the upper half of 

 the frond obliquely patent in aline halfway between the costa 

 and the margin and a little distant from each other. (Tab. 

 CCLXXII. B.)—Mef.ten. Pohjpod. p. 38. Grammitis Zey- 

 lanica, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 234. 



Ilab. Ceylon, Mrs. Genl. Walker, Gardner, n. 1138, 1283/1.— Allied to, but 

 truly distinct from, P.fasciatum, in the outline of the frond, in the presence of 

 teetli at the margin, and in the shape and position of the sori. 



17. P. (Eupolypodium) Mrtum., Hook. (c^iMetten. ?) ; cau- 

 dex small ascending copiously fibroso-radiculose scaly above, 

 stipites tufted black 1-H inch long villous with spread- 

 ing brown hairs, fronds firm opaqvie-membranaceous 3-4 or 

 more inches long ^ of an inch wide linear-oblong obtuse 

 quite entire at the margin moderately attenuated at the base 

 ciliated and more or less villous with long brown hairs, veins 

 spreading forked near the base, upper branch short soriferous, 

 sori subglobose in very regular series close to the costa. 

 (Tab. CCLXXIII. K.)—Metten. Pohjpod. p. 38 ? Grammitis 

 hirta, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 394 [no description or 

 character). Grammitis hirta, Bl. En. Fil. Jav.p. 111. t. 46. 



/. 1 ? (vems too much branched). Grammitis setosa, Bl. En. 

 Fil. Jav. p. 116. t. 48. /. 3 [non Pr.), and Gr. pubinervia?, 

 Bl I.e. t.48.f. 4. 



Ilab. Java, Blume, Zollhiger. Luzon, Cuming, n. 222. — The smaller Indian 

 graramitoid Polypodia, if I may so call them, are attended with great difficulty 

 in their study; and neither the costly figures nor the descriptions of Blume tend 

 so much as they ought to do to remove the difficulties. Mettenius refers to three 

 of Blume's species as belonging to P. hirfum, Bl. That which bears the name 

 of hirtum has the veins twice and thrice forked, or even pinnated, with divaricating 

 branches, and Mettenius goes so far as to add (including all the three species of 

 Blume) " hinc inde more Marginarite anastoynosantes." Now the plant of Mr. J. 

 Smith, identical with ours, has the veins with one, a single short, branch at the 

 utmost, and in point of outline and sori it best accords with Grammitis setosa of 

 Blume. But if that, as Mettenius would ini])ly, has much branched and some- 

 what anastomosing veins, which I do not at all infer from Blume's description, 

 then our plant is distinct ; and it is this of which we here give a figure. 



18. P. (Eupolypodium) obscurum, Metten. ; "rhizome 

 creeping, stipites 2-3 lines long, fronds coriaceous firm setose 

 at the margin and costa 3-4 inches long 4 lines wide linear 

 or lanceolate attenuated towards the base obtuse, veins im- 

 mersed generally repeatedly forked, sori dorsal on the an- 

 terior lowest branch close to the costa, capsules setose." — 

 Metten. Polypod. p. 38. Grammitis obscura, Bl. En. Fil. 



