194 l»OLYJM)l)H M, § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



indistinct clinging to tlic hark of trees ])y copious rooting 

 fibres, the rest of the plant all over piloso-glandulose most so 

 beneath, stipites tufted 1-.5 lines long, fronds 2-4 inches 

 long \ inch broad linear obtuse scarcely attenuated at either 

 extremity rather firm-membranaceous subsucculent deeply 

 Tiearly to the rachis pinnatifid, segments ovate subacute hori- 

 zontally patent decurrent at the base, lowermost ones free all 

 of them serrato-pinnatifid, costule and rather distant few and 

 oblique simple veins indistinct, sori few globose. (Tab. 

 CCLXXVI. A.) 



llalj. On trees, Ceylon, Ganlnet-, 71. \2S9, Thtvailes. — A small species, perhaps 

 most nearly allied to P. suhfalcntum, but readily distinguished by the copious 

 glandular hairs, especially clothing the under side of the frond, giving almost a 

 furfuraceous appearance to that part of it. 



76. P. (Eupolypodium) compionicefoi'mm, Desv. ; caudex 

 thick creeping densely fusco-paleaceous above, stipites sparse 

 4-5 inches long black patenti-villous often bent at an angle, 

 fronds .5 inches to a span long sparingly villous an inch and 

 more wide firm-membranaceous pinnatifid about ^ of the way 

 down to the slender costa, lobes patent obtuse, veins flexu- 

 ose, veinlets forked bearing the sori beneath the apex irre- 

 gularly scattered on the surface, sori often oval partially sunk. 

 — Desv. Berl. Mar/, v. p. 316. P. comptonioides, Desv. Mem. 

 Linn. Soc. \'\. p. 2.31. P. trifurcatum, Linn. Sp. PL p. 1543. 

 fn/ld. Sp. PL v. p. 165. K/f. En. FiL p. 96. Met ten. Po- 

 hjpod. p. 54. P. scolopendrioides. Hook, et Grev. Ic. FiL p. 

 42. Plum. FiL t. 138 [abnormal form, trifid at the apex). 



Hah. West Indies: Martinique, Plumier ; Guadeloupe, L Ilerminier ,- Porto 

 Rico, Schxnanecke. On trees, Ecuador, Forest of Archedona, and at Abitagua, 

 Jameson, Spruce, n. 5280. — It seems a pity to preserve the name of trifurcatum, 

 although of Linnean origin, for it is derived from a monstrous form of the frond, 

 analogous to that which occurs at the apex oi Scolopendritim vulgare in Europe. 



77- P- (Eupolypodium) pendulum, Sw. ; caudex small erect 

 paleaceous with ferruginous scales, stipites aggregated 2-3 

 lines long more or less downy (often winged to the very 

 base), fronds coriaceo-membranaceous 4-5 inches to 1-H 

 foot long 1-2 inches broad glabrous oblong-lanceolate acu- 

 minate long-attenuated at the base deeply nearly to the ra- 

 chis pinnatifid, segments very patent \ an inch to Ij long 

 1-3 lines wide from a broad base more or less decurrent be- 

 low oblong often gradually acuminated but obtuse, inferior 

 ones gradually dwarfed and forming a sinuated or lobed wing 

 nearly to the base of the rachis, veins evident simple or 



