176 POLYPODIUXf, '^ ETTPOLYPODIUM. 



just within the margin, terminal hilje very large i-f of an 

 inch long ovate-oblong very obtuse generally broader than the 

 rest of the frond its veins pinnated, sori ? (Tab. CCLXXIII. 

 B.) 



Ilab. Madagascar, Dr. Lyall. — This has too much the habit and texture of a 

 true Fern forme to omit all notice of it in the present work, although it is quite 

 destitute of fructification ; and I trust some early researches of botanical travel- 

 lers in Madagascar, now happily thrown open to Europeans, may make us better 

 acquainted with it. The remarkable features about the plant are the subquadratc 

 form of the lateral lobes, with one or, far more frequently, two distinct and dis- 

 tant veins, with a large terminal lobe having pinnated veins, somewhat resem- 

 bling the caudate fertile apex in P. serrulatum. 



33. P. (Eupolypodium) denticulatum, Pr. ; "fronds shortly 

 stipitate linear-lanceolate deeply pinnatifid glabrous coria- 

 ceous, lowermost pinnae (segments ?) dentiform decurrent, 

 intermediate ones ovate acute rarely toothed cucullate mono- 

 sorous, caudex paleaceous." Bl. — Metten. Polypod. p. 39. P. 

 cucullatum, BL En. Fil. Jav.p. 129. Grammitis denticulata, 

 Bl. En. Fil. Jav.p. 121. t. 50./. 4. 



Hab. On trees, among mosses, Java, Blume. — I am not acquainted with this 

 species. If correctly described by Blume, who alone seems to have known the plant, 

 I am perhaps wrong in my conjecture expressed under my description of P. clavifer, 

 Ilook. in Second Century of Ferns, that it might belong to a form of P. cuculla- 

 tum. The figure is very unsatisfactory. 



34. P. (Eupolypodium) cucvllatum, Nees ; caudex very 

 small ascending fibroso-radicant, stipites densely ceespitose 

 1-2-3 lines long, fronds memljranaceous 1-5 inches long 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate deeply nearly to the costa pin- 

 natifid, segments 1-2 lines long ovato-oblong recurvo-patent 

 obtuse entire, those of the upper half of the frond broader 

 conduplicate fertile, veins solitary in each seo-ment, in the 

 fertile ones bearing a solitary large subrotund or oblong sorus 

 partly concealed by the conduplicature of the segment, costa 

 and sometimes the frond deciduously piloso-setose. — Nees et 

 Bl. Nov. Act. Acad. ii. ;>. 121. /. 12. /. 3. Metten. Polypod. 

 p. 33. Grammitis, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 119. /. 50. /. 3. J. 

 Hm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. w. 206. Calymmodon, Pr. Moore. 

 Plectopteris gracilis, Fee, Gen. p. 2.30. t. 19. B. 



Ilab. ia.\?L, Blume, Thos. Lohb. Luzon, Cuming, n.2Q&. Mt. Ophir, Malacca, 

 Griffith. Kina-balu, Borneo, H. Low. Rhamboda, Ceylon, Gardner. — A species 

 distinguished by the conduplicature of the fertile segments, well represented in 

 the figures above quoted. 



35. P. (Eupolypodium) clavifer, Hook.; caudex rather 

 stout ascending copiously rooting, fronds scarcely stipitate 



