POLYPOniUM, ^ EUPOLYl'OUIUM. 195 



forked, sori slightly imj)resscd forming two lines between the 

 costule and the margin, rachis often black. — Siv. Syii. Fil. 

 p. 33. 131. Schk. Fil. p. 12. t. 10. IVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 182. 

 Metten. Polyp, p. 55. 



Hah. On trees in the monntains, West Indies: Jamaica, Swartz, Dr. ]\'ri(/lif. 

 (Ij foot and more long), Ji'ilson ; Guadeloupe, Sieh. Syn. Fil. n. b2 (small), 

 L nerminier. British Guiana, Richard Schomhurf/k (varying from 4-12 inches). 

 Venezuela, Fendler,n. 350. Brazil, Aracas, on trees, Gardner, n. 5914. I'ern, 

 on the Andes, Mathews, n. 1102 (segments IJ inch long, finely acuminated). — 

 Schkuhr's figure (the only one that I know of) re|)resents a very small si)ecinicii 

 of this species, wliich is best distinguished hy the gradual dwarfing of the lower 

 segments ; these are so decurrent as to form a narrow lohed wing to the whole 

 stipes. 



78. P. (Eupolypodium) y^c?eno/>/«orMS, Hook. etArn.; cau- 

 dex small ascending clothed with narrow-acuminated scales 

 fibroso-radicant below, stij)ites tufted less than an inch long 

 clavato-glandulose, fronds pendent a span to a foot long an 

 inch broad suljcoriaceo-membranaceous elastic elongato-lan- 

 ceolate moderately acuminate tapering at the base deeply 

 nearly to the rachis pinnatitid glanduloso-ciliate the rest gla- 

 brous, segments from a broad decurrent base subtriangulari- 

 oblong horizontal subfalcate acute entire or sinuato-dentate, 

 veinlets simple or forked, sori few in the upper half of the 

 segments intermediate between the costule and the margin. 

 — Hook, and Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 104. /. 22. Brack. 

 Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 8. Metten. Po/ypod. p. 55. P. pen- 

 dulum, Gandich. in Freyc. Voy. p. 349 \)iot Sw.), and Adeno- 

 phorus pinnatifidus, /. c. p. 365. 



Hah. Sandwich Islands, Gaudtchaud, Beechey, Brackenridxje. Peru, Mathews, 

 n. 1808. — Mettenius gives Guadeloupe (and only Guadeloupe), Fimck andSahlim, 

 11. 217, as the native c(nuitry of this Fern, which I only know from the 

 Sandwich Islands and from Peru, Mathews. — Perhaps too nearly allied to P. pen- 

 datum. 



79. P. (Eupolypodium) sarmentosum, Brack. ; caude.x very 

 small scaly rooting below and sometimes sarmentose (Brack.), 

 stipites solitary or sparingly tufted scarcely an inch long, fronds 

 subcoriaceo-membranaceous subglanduloso-pubescent 3-6 

 inches long 1-2 inches wide lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate cau- 

 dately acuminate attenuately decurrent at the base deeply 

 nearly to the costa pinnatifid, segments subhorizontally pa- 

 tent 1-1-7 line wide rather obtuse entire or repando-dentate 

 unequal in length, veins simple, sori globose rather irregular 

 scarcely forming a continued line or series, capsules mi.Kcd 



