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Sm., not of Brack.), but observes tbat the fructification is totally different. It 

 has a near attinity with P. decorum, but is quite distinct in the above characters. 



45. P. (Eitpol^qoodium) pilosisshmim. Mart, et Gal. ; " cau- 

 dex creeping clothed with lanceolato-subulate rather rigid 

 blackish scales, sti])itcs 1-2 lines long, fronds coriaceous 

 glabrous above, beneath and at the margin and on the stipes 

 setose with patent blackish hairs at length glal)rous 4-8 

 inches long lanceolate acuminate deeply pinnatitid, segments 

 6-7 lines long 1-H line wide contiguous, from a i)road base 

 elongato-oblong obtuse or oblong-lanceolate entire, veins 

 immersed ending in an incrassated apex on the upper side 

 having a blackish depression, sori dorsal 3-6 on each side 

 the costule intermediate between the costule and the margin, 

 while young surrounded by long blackish seta3 longer than 

 the sorus." Metten.—Mart. et Gal. Fit. Mex. p. 39. t. 9./. 2. 

 Metten. Pohjp.p. 42. 



Ilab. Mexico, Galeotti, n. 6379. New Grenada, Fendler, n. 219, Moritz, n. 

 21G,«. 26, n. 382, Schlim, 399. Surucucho, Ecuador, Jameson. Ocaua, elev. 8000 

 feet, Seemann, n. 954. Organ Mountains, Brazil, Gardner, n. 111. — This is pro- 

 bably a common tropical American species. It is tolerably well represented by 

 Martens and Galeotti. The specimen is unusually large, and the hairs on the stipes 

 are too long and too lax. In age the hairs sometimes almost wholly disappear. 



46. P. (Eupolypodium) mo//ico?M?«m, Nees ; " fronds linear- 

 lanceolate deeply pinnatifid coriaceous and as well as the 

 stipes fusco-villous, segments alternate oblong obtuse entire, 

 lower ones subtriangular, sori solitarv submarginal confluent." 

 Bl.—Nees and Bl. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xi. p. 121. t. 12. f. 2. 

 Bl. Fit. Jav. p. 184. t. 86. B. Metten. Polyp, p. 41. 



Ilab. On high mountains, Java, Bhime. — Of this I have no authentic specimens. 

 A solitary frond from Blume, in Mr. J. Smith's herbarium, very much resembles 

 P.fascatum, Bl., as does Blume's figure above quoted. 



47. P. (Eupolypodium)/M5co^MW, Bl. ; "fronds lanceolate 

 deeply pinnatifid submembranaceous pilosulous, segments 

 alternate linear rather obtuse entire, lower ones narrower, 

 sori solitary submarginal confluent, stipes and rachis villous." 

 —Bl. Fit. Jav. p. 185. t. 86. C. Metten. Polyp, p. 41. 



Hab. On trees in mountain-woods of Java, Blume. " Scarcely different from 

 the preceding (P. mollicomum), which it exceeds in size, its fronds are of a 

 thinner texture, segments narrower and longer, lower ones smaller and remote, 

 generally narrow-spathulate." Blume. — My specimens of P. fuscatum, from 

 Miquel and Do Vriese, do not seem to verify the observations of Blume. But it 

 requires a more extensive suite of specimens, than has conic under my notice, of 

 both, to judge how far the two are really different, and what are their siiecific 

 distinctions. 



