180 POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



nutans, /. Sm. in Hook. .Town. Bot. iii. p. 394, and Metten. 

 Fohip. p. 41 {excl. syn. " Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 182. t. 86. A."). P. 

 Serra, Wall. Cat . 313/2. 



Hab. Singapore, Wallich, in Herh.nostr. '^lonni 0\A\ix, Griffith. Nortli-west 

 India, Edgeivorth. Luzon, Cuming, n. 398. Borneo, Wallace. Tahiti, Bracken- 

 ridge. Gaudalcanau, entrees, Baydo Creek (Fiji ?), Milne. Borneo, Thos.Lohb. 

 — ^Tlie specimens I have referred to this species are quite uniform, and are unques- 

 tionably one and the same. Cuming's plant, ii. 398, is referred by J. Smith 

 (without any remark) to P. nutans, Bl. ; and Mettenius does the same and 

 describes it under that name, but he observes, " Specimina descripta forma laci- 

 niarum ab icone laudata Blumeana recedunt." Blume represents a much larger 

 plant, with a rather long stipes, not winged, with the altered segments at the 

 base. 1 think it better to preserve Blume's species, whatever it may be. 



43. P. (Eupolypodium) nutans, Bl. ; "fronds subnutant 

 (they are rather subfalcate) deeply pinnatifid subcoriaceous 

 glabrous punctate beneath, segments alternate linear obtuse 

 entire, lower ones subtriangular, sori solitary intramarginal 

 confluent, stipes and rachis puberulous." — Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 

 182. t. 66. A {scarcely of Mettenius and J. Smith). 



Hab. Java, Blume. — " Soris," lie says, " non immersis, nudis, et admodum con- 

 fluentibus, speciem hanc a P. venuloso et ohliquato, BL, forsan facillime distin- 

 guere licet." 



44. P. (Eupolypodium) hlechnoides, Hook.; caudex short 

 stout (for the size of the plant) sul)repent ferrugineo-paleace- 

 ous, stipites subclustered short ^-1 inch or more long, fronds 

 firm-coriaceous glabrous 6-10 inches long 1-1 ^ wide lanceo- 

 late acuminate much tapering at the base by the gradual 

 diminution in length of the lower segments deeply almost 

 quite to the dark-brown rachis pinnatifid, segments obtuse 

 all with a broad and decurrent base, upper and fertile ones 

 linear-oblong, lower ones broader and obliquely subtriangular 

 (inferior margin straight), lowest segments forming narrow 

 lobelike wings to the stipes, costules and veins quite sunk 

 and undistinguishable, sori oblong forming two lines one 

 on each side tlie costa and margin and nearly parallel with 

 them moderately sunk in a depression (without hairs ?) . — 

 Grammitis blechnoides, Grev. in Edinb. Ann. and Mag. of 

 Nat. Hist. N. Ser. v. 1. p. 328. /. 17. Metten. Polyp, p. 42. 

 P. contiguum, Brack. Fit. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 6. t. 2. /. 1. 

 Cryptosorus Seemanni, /. Sni. in Seem. Plantce Vitienses, n. 

 823. 



Hab. Island of Raialea, Friendly Islands, Dr. Sibhald. Mountains, Fiji Is- 

 lands, Brackenridge, Seemann. Aneiteum, Milne. — Brackenridge not inaptly 

 compares this with some states of Davallia contigua, Sw. {Polgpod. contiguum, J. 



