182 POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



48. P. (Eupolypodium) mom/i/brme, Lagasc. ; caudex long 

 creeping or short and ascending densely rooting clothed 

 with lanceolato-subulate blackish scales, stipites scattered 

 and distant or aggregated towards the apex of the caudex 

 from ^-2-3 inches long deciduously hairy, fronds quite gla- 

 brous 4-6 and 10 inches long 2^-3^ lines wide very coria- 

 ceous thick dark-brown or black above when dry, attenuated 

 at both extremities deeply almost to the costa pinnatifid 

 with acute sinuses, segments semiorbicular oval or oblong 

 the margins more or less revolute entire or subsinuate, cos- 

 tule and veins sunk quite concealed, sori about four glo- 

 bose at length confluent. — a. Andinuin ; fronds small, seg- 

 ments semiorbicular. P. moniliforme, Sio. Syn. FU. p. 33. 

 Willd.Sp. Pl.Y^p. 184. Metten. Polyp, p. 41. P. subcrena- 

 tum. Hook. Ic. PL t. 719. Metten. Poly pod. p. 4:2. P. me- 

 lanostichum ?, Kze. in Linncea, ix. p. 44. Jamesonia adnata, 

 Kze. in Schk. Fit. Suppl. p. 80. t. 133. /. 1. — /3. rigescens ; 

 usually larger, segments oval-oblong or even oblong-acumi- 

 nate. P. rigescens, Bory, in Willd. Sp. PI. \\p. 183. Hook, 

 et Grev. Ic. Fit. t. 216. 



Hab. a. Mountain regions of tropical America : Brazil, New Granada, Ecuador, 

 and Peru (at elevations even of 10,000 feet, Spruce), Guatemala, Mexico 

 (9000-12,000 feet, Galeotti). West Indies: Jamaica, Pi/rJ/e; Cuba, IVrighf, 

 n. 811 (in part) and 1050.— /3. Bourbon, Bory, in Herb, nostr. West tropical 

 Africa: Fernando Po, on the Peak, alt. 4000 feet, G. Mann, n. 361. Brazil, 

 summit of Organ Mountains, Gardner, n. 5915 and 5916. Ocaiia, Schlim, n. 

 365. Peru, Mathews, n. 977. Tarapota, Spruce, n. 4642. Ecuador, Quito, 

 Jameson, n. 75. Tunguragua, Spruce, n. 5279, A, with the caudex 2 feet long, 

 thicker than a swan's quill, extended on the earth among Ericaceous plants, not 

 rooting, densely clothed with imbricated scales ; and, from the same locality. 

 Spruce, n. 5279, B, are specimens with short, thick, branched caudices, squar- 

 rose with crisped scales, and fronds a foot long, with segments an inch long, 

 from a broad base, linear-oblong and subacuminated, often glaucous beneath. — 

 The very acute Mr. Spruce remarks, " I tliink all the specimens marked 5279 be- 

 long to the same species." I can quite believe it, and that there is a gradual pas- 

 sage from the small P. monilifurme, with its comparatively minute semiorbicular 

 segments, to the large narrow acuminated ones just mentioned ; and from the 

 small short caudex, scarcely forming a rhizome, to the stout caudex of 2 feet in 

 length. 



49. P. (Eupolypodium) /err?/^meMm. Mart, et Gal.; "cau- 

 dex ?, stipites 1 inch long hirsute with ferruginous hairs, 

 fronds membranaceous rather rigid 5-6 inches long hairy at 

 the costa beneath, the rest glabrous lanceolate acuminate 

 pinnatifid to the rachis, segments 5 lines long 1 line wide 

 the broader base adnate and decurrent contiguous lanceolate 

 or linear gradually attenuated acute entire lower ones re- 



