200 POLYPODIUMj § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



much acuminated scales sometimes subpeltate. — Mart, and 

 Gal. Fil. Mex. p. 4.\. t. 8. /". 2 [a much reduced and very im- 

 perfect figure). Metten. Polyp, p. 58. P. pectinatum, L. [in 

 part). Eat. Fil. Wright et Fendl. p. 198. 



Ilab. .Mexico, Xalapa, eh.'V. 4000 feet, GaleoHi, in Herb, nostr. Cuba, C. 

 Wright, n. 80C (in part). New Granada, La Faila, Ilolton. Brazil, prov. Para, 

 Spruce, n. 400. — Clearly allied to our P.Plumula ; a coarser plant, with obsolete 

 venation, a black, prominent, straight costule beneath, a very opaque frond, almost 

 black, and many scales scattered on the back of the rachis; and thus probably 

 distinct. 



89. P. (Eupolypodium) melanopus, Grev. and Hook. ; 

 stipes ])lack (as is ihe rachis below) wiry curved glabrous in my 

 only specimens, fronds drooping 7-8 inches long 2-3 inches 

 broad (in the broadest part) obovato-obh)ng caudately acu- 

 minated obtuse (not attenuated at the base) deeply nearly to 

 the rachis pinnatifid into numerous very patent linear acute 

 or obtuse entire closely placed segments sparsely ciliated with 

 very long dark-coloured spreading hairs, costules prominent 

 beneath and the erecto-patent forked veinlets black, sori nu- 

 merous terminal globose on the superior branch of the fork 

 between the costule and the margin. — Ch'ev. and Hook, in 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. in. p. 384. t. 111. 



Hab. Hanging vertically at Surucucho, near Cuenca, Ecuador, from the trunks 

 of trees, elev. 9000 feet above the level of the sea, Jameson. — A very distinct and 

 beautiful species, which I have only once received from my valued correspondent Dr. 

 Jameson. The long narrow segments are very close, but lathcr unequal in length. 



90. P. (Eupolypodium) blandum, Fee ; " stipes short curved 

 with rather long rufous hairs, fronds deeply pinnatifid ovoid 

 triangular, segments quite free below very glabrous opaque 

 cartilaginous undulated veinless [enerviis) curved, sori almost 

 marginal remote, sporangia ovoid, annulus with 12-14 arti- 

 culations, spores subtrigonous, spurangiastra racemose unila- 

 teral.^' Fee, Tme Mem. Foug. Nouv.p. 59. /. 22./. 5. 



Hab. South America, region unknown {Fee). — " Les sporangiastres ont une 

 disposition que nous n'avons vue nulle part ailleurs; ils sont unilateraux, en 

 grappe, et resultent evidemment de la transformation des anneaux de la 

 sporange." 



91. P. (Eupolypodium) Phimula, H. B. K. ; caudex creep- 

 ing or ascending clothed with subulate paleaceous scales, sti- 

 pites firm rigid 2-4 inches long clothed with copious soft 

 patent hairs, fronds 4 inches to a foot long 1-2| inches wide 

 subcoriaceo-menibranaceous opaque or subpellucid lanceolate 

 moderately acuminate more or less attenuated below deeply 



