196 POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



with articulated clavate hairs. — Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. 

 p. 8. t. 2./. 3 {excellent). 



Hab. Sandwich Islands, on rocks and decayed wood, frequent, Menzien, in Herb, 

 nostr., Brackenridye, who justly observes that it is allied to P. Adenophorus, 

 "but distinct and well marked as a species." — It is perhaps still more closely 

 allied to some forms of the New Zealand P. grammitidis, Br., but it wants the 

 pinnatifid segments of that species and the more or less elongated sori. Dr. 

 Hillebrand sends me good specimens and a small and narrow variety, which he 

 had named P. Ilaalilioanum, Brack. {P. subpinnatifidum, Bl., and of this work). 



80. P. (Eupolypodium) suspen.sum, L. ; caudex creeping 

 paleaceous with dark-brown subulato-setaceous scales, stipites 

 sparse 4-8-9 inches long stout villous with patent ferruginous 

 hairs often very densely so erect below, curved above and 

 generally geniculated at or near the apex so as to place the 

 frond in a drooping direction, frond subcoriaceous firm green 

 long-ciliated at the margin glabrous or long-villous on both 

 surfaces a span to 2 feet long 1-3 inches broad lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate elongated acuminated scarcely attenuated 

 at the base deeply nearly to the costa pinnatifid, segments 

 1-3-4 lines broad from a broader and decurrent base oblong 

 acute rather than acuminate entire, loM-est ones a little abbre- 

 viated, veins manifest simple or forked, superior and shorter 

 branch soriferous but varying in length so that the series 

 of sori are sometimes nearest the costule sometimes to the 

 margin pseudodorsal. — Li?i?7. Sp. PI. p. 1544. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 

 32. Willd.Sp. PL y.p. 181. Metten. Polyp, p. 56. P. ar- 

 cvi2itvLm, Moritz, in Herb, nostr. Metten. Polyp, p. 56. P. 

 laxifrons, Liebm. Fil. Mex.p. 52. P. pendulum et glabrum, 

 I^lum. Fil. p. 67. t. 87 {very bad, if really intended for this 

 Fern) . 



Ilab. Tropical America, abimdant. West Indies, Plumier, Sieber,n. 242; yet 

 Mettenius refers this to P. asplenifolium. I\Tartinique, Jamaica, Jl'ilson, n. 714 

 and .584, and others. St. Vincent, Cuba, C. Wright, n. 810. Columbia, frequent, 

 Morilz, n. 334, n. 264 h (P. arcuatnm, Jl/or/72-), and without?!, (named P. Funckii, 

 Raddi. Fil. Brazil, t. 27,/. 2, by Mettenius), Funclc and Schlim, n. 589, 855,962, 

 Fendler, n. 213, 215, and 216 (P. radicale, Moritz,fidc Metten.), 4&7, Linden,n. 

 186. Mexico, Liebmann. Guatemala, Skinner. Brazil, Rio, Gardner, n. 128 

 and 129. Ecuador, Andes of Quito, alt. 8000 ieet, Jameson and Spruce, n. 5711 

 (ordinary forms). — I think the most characteristic mark of this species is the 

 stout, elongated, wiry stipes, erect, but towards the apex suddenly bent or geni- 

 culated, so that the direction of the frond is downwards, taken in conjunction 

 with the somewhat coriaceous, firm frond, obtuse, not sensibly attenuated at the 

 base. The veins I tind to be usually forked, the superior and shorter branch 

 bearing the sorus at its apex. My specimen of P. Schknhrii from Mettenius 

 (Tovar. Moritz) is assuredly P.suspensnm, and does not accord either with 

 Schkuhr'i, figure of pectijialuin or Raddi's P. Sc/ikn/irii. 



