184 POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



to the apex obtuse opaque, capsules 6-S thick confluent 

 covering the entire surface, capsules subrotund, its pedicel 

 broad the annulus of fourteen articulations, spores polymor- 

 phous." — Fee, 6me Mem. Foug. Nouv. p. 59. t. 21./. 4. 



Ilab. New Grenada, Ocau.i, Schlim, n. 399. — "A weak, pendulous, narrow 

 Fern, with the indefinite evohition of Jamesonia," the apex of apparently a j>er- 

 fect frond, being circinate, but having few striking characters. Fee compares it 

 to P. subacahrum, Kl. (our preceding species), but it accords neither with Klotzsch's 

 description nor his authentic specimen in our herbarium. 



53. P. (Eupolypodium) parvulum, Bory; " caudex creep- 

 ing clothed with ferruginous narrow-lanceolate scales, stipites 

 .3-4 lines long margined, fronds rigidly membranaceous gla- 

 brous 3-4 inches long lanceolate deeply almost to the costa 

 pinnatifid, segments 3-4 lines long 1 \ line wide at the inferior 

 base coadunate and continuous oblong or ovate-oblong rather 

 obtuse rarely oblong-lanceolate entire, lower ones abbreviated 

 and long-decurrent, veins evident incrassated below the apex 

 rarely soriferous on the middle of the back, sori 3-6 on each 

 side." Metten. (Tab. CCLXXIV. B.)— 5ory, in Willd. Sp. 

 PL v.p. 182. Bl. Fil. Jav.p. 87. t. 187. C [according to Blume 

 and Mettenius) . Metten. Polyp. p. 43. P. inconspicuum, Bl. 

 Fil. Jav. p. 130. 



Hab. Bourbon, Bory. Mauritius, Sieber, Syn, 52 {Metten.), CarmicJiael, in 

 Herb nostr., Dr. Ayres (segments broader). Java, Blume, Millett, Thos. Lobb. 

 — I possess no authenticated specimen of this ; but my specimen from Mauritius, 

 gathered by thelateCaj^t. Carmichael, quite accords with Mettenius's description, 

 better than with Blume's figure. My Java specimens from Lobb and Millett also 

 seem to be the true plant. 



54 P. (Eupolypodium) delicatulum, Mart, et Gal. ; cau- 

 dex short creeping clothed with subulate blackish scales, 

 stipites somewhat clustered \-\\ inch long patenti-j)ilose, 

 "fronds rather rigid on both sides and at the margin ferru- 

 gineo-setose 4i (to 6) inches long linear (subattenuate at 

 both extremities) pinnatifid to the very costa, segments 

 2^-3 lines long f line wide contiguous from a rather broad 

 base oblong obtuse exterior lower ones distinct, veins im- 

 mersed bearing a sorus at the apex, sori subimmersed with 

 ferruginous hairs in their circumference 4-5 on each side the 

 costule intermediate between the costule and the margin." 

 Metten. — Mart, et Galeotti, Fil. Mex. j9. 35. t. "]. f. \ [very 

 faithful). Metten. Pohjp.p. 44. 



Hab. Mexico, on Oaks of the Sierra Yavergia, elev. 7000 feet, Galeotti (in 

 Herb, nostr.), Schaffner. Tunguragua, Ecuador, on mossy stones, Spruce, n. 



