POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYPODIUM. l7l 



Jav.ji. 113. t. 50./. 1 (to which Blunic himself adds, i^^^ 2, 

 "^. anyustata ; fronds narrower subentire sliortly stipitate 

 subj)ul)escent on both sides, sori subrotund confluent." BL). 



Hub. Java, '' Jilumc, Zo/lini/cr,n. 171S." — With tliis I am imacquaiiited. I 

 confess that Dluuie's var. ;3, at f. 2, has tlie appearance of a diflcreiit si)ecies, 

 much smaller, and, judging from the figure, destitute of stipes. Mettenius docs 

 not inchide this under P. obscurum, and, as far as I can find, he omits it altoge- 

 tiier. Mettenius, moreover, descrihes the veins as " repetitim furcatic ;" wiicreas 

 JUunie says " venis simplicibus vel bifidis." Probably ZoUinger's plant maybe 

 ditferent from Blume's. 



19. P. (Eupoly podium) setigerum, Bl. ; everjnvhere se- 

 toso-hirsute with long patent ferruginous hairs, caudex short 

 ascending rather than creeping, stipites fascicidate 1-4 inches 

 long, fronds membranaceous 3 inches to a span long \-'^ of 

 an inch wide elongato-lanceolate obtuse quite entire, veins 

 l)innated two or three times forked, superior basal veinlets 

 soriferous, sori approximate but not close, arranged in two 

 very regular series near but not close to the costa. — Bl. En. 

 Fil. Jav. y. 123 [not Hook, et Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 

 103). Hook. Ic. PL t. 941 {or Cent, of Ferns, t. 41). Metten. 

 Polypod. p. 38 [excl. Sijn. Hook, et Am.). Grammitis fasci- 

 culata, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 112. /. 47./. 2. 



Hab. Epiphytal, on trunks and Ijranches of trees, Java, Bliime {in Herb, noslr.). 

 Bourbon {Ilerb. nostr.from Herb. Mus. Par.). — A beautiful species, quite ferru- 

 ginous from the copious clothing of long tawny hairs, not conlincd lo the margin. 

 Stipes much elongated. 



20. P. (Eupolypodium) Hookeri, Brack. ; caudex very 

 small ascending copiously radiculose, stipites h-lh inch long 

 ])atently setose, fronds 3-5 inches long scarcely h an inch 

 wide subcoriaceo-membranaceous opaque narrow-lanceolate 

 tapering at both extremities entire long-ciliated at the mar- 

 gin and setose on the costa, veins once or twice forked, sori 

 very close in two compact lines at the costa with setae 

 among the capsules. — Brack. Fil. U. St. Expl. Exp. p. 4 [ac- 

 cording to the reference to Hook, and Am.). Polyp, setige- 

 rum, Hook, et Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 103. t. 21.^. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands ; Owhyhee, Menzies, Bidwell, Ueechey, Brackenridye' 

 l;Uzon, Brackenridye. Fiji Islands, Milne. — At the time Dr. Arnott and myself 

 named this species P. setiycrum, we were not aware that an allied, yet possibly 

 ditferent, species bore the same name in Blume. The texture is different, the 

 fronds are much less villous, the sori are very crowded and placed so close to the 

 costa on each side, that the two lines or series almost meet over the costa, the 

 veins once or twice forked. The specimens I have received as P. Hookeri, Brack., 

 are undout)ledly P. seliyerum, Bl., not Hook. It is possiide that, as Biackcn- 

 ridgc gives Luzon (where I have never seen the P. Hookeri) as well as the Sand- 



