204 POLYPODIUM, § KUPOLYPODIUM. 



side the costule more or less distant from the margin, rachis 

 and costules hairv especially beneath. — Linn. Sp. PL p. 1545. 

 Sw. Si/n. Fl/.p.'32. mild. Sp. PL \. p. 180 {excL syn. 

 Schk.). Metten. Polypod. p. 59. Griseb. Carib. PL p. 135. 

 Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 10. Plum. Fil. t. 80. Goniophlebium, 

 J. Sm. Lond. Journ. of Bot. iv. ^j. 57- P. Paradiseae, Lnnysd. 

 et Fisch. p. 11. t. 11. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 179. Metten. 

 Polypod. p. 60 {Mettenius refers to this P. ptilodon, Kze., 

 P. molle, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. i. p. 8, P. recm-vatum 

 [larger, pinnated below, pinnce remote), Kaulf En. Fil. p. 106, 

 and P. moenurum. Link.). P. Otites, Linn. Sp. PL p. 1545, 

 Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 34. Willd. So. PL p. 177- ^'~e. hiLinncsa, 

 \yi. p. 42. 



Hal). Tropical America, universal. I have given many localities in the ' Garden 

 Ferns,' above quoted, under P. 2iectinatuin, and I have now, after a more attentive 

 study of this pectinated group, if it may be so called, joined to it — and I may say, 

 with little or no hesitation — P. Paradisea, so admirably figured by Langsdorif and 

 Fischer, P. Otites, L., P. recurvatum, Kaulf. {P. mcenurum, Lk.), and I think I 

 might very safely have added P. lomaricp forme, Kze. (see n. 90). I shall now 

 briefly notice specimens in my herbarium, which have been distributed with num- 

 bers or authentic names, as authority for what I refer to P. pectinatnm, L. 

 Brazil, Gardner, n. 123, 124, 126, 127, 5287, Sellow (P. reclinatum, P. amoe- 

 num, Lk.), Spruce, n. 2220. B. Guiana, Rich. Schomhuriih (P. Paradiseas, 

 L. and F.), n. 1136. New Granada, ScMim, n. 612, 636, 130, 633, 128, 

 Fendler, n. 220 (P. consimile, Metten. mst. fide Eaton), n. 221 (P. Paradises, 

 Eat.), HoUon,n. 36 (same as P. reclinatum, Kaulf.), Moritz, n. 255 (" P. Otites," 

 Metten.), and n. 32 (" P.lomariasforme," Mett.), Linden, n. 185, 529. Panama, 

 Sutton Rayes, n. 172, Fendler, n. 419, Cuming, n. 1210, 1211. West Indies, 

 Sieber, n. 334 (" P. Otites "), March, n. 33, JVilson (with oval sori), C. Wright, 

 n. 806 (" P. Plumula," Eat.), n. 1017 (var. with segments irregubarly pinnatifidly 

 pectinated, Pmppig (" P. Otites," Kze.). Mexico, Linden, n. 9, 1504, Galeotti, n. 

 6333. Ecuador, Spruce, n. 5038 (segments 5-6 inches long, much acuminated, 

 coarsely serrated), n. 5284, 5268. Peru, Spruce, n. 4145, 4146 (much attenuated 

 at the base of the frond, and segments very obtuse or retuse), Mathews, n. 1104. 

 — If it can be shown that P. Plumula (our n. 91) has the veins sometimes once 

 or twice forked, I do not see why that should not be added to the list of syno- 

 nyms of P. pectinatum, L. 



98. P. (Eupolypodium) Schkuhrii, Rad. ; " caudex creep- 

 ing, fronds deeply pinnatifid truncate at the base, segments 

 linear obtuse approximate horizontal parallel slightly repand 

 clothed on both sides with scattered rarely piliform scales, 

 sori solitary, rachis flexuose, and the stipes hairy." — Ruddi, 

 FiL Bras. p. 19. t. 2/./. 2. P. pectinatum, -ScA/c. Fit. p. 189. 

 t. 17- b [excl. syn.). 



Hab. Jamaica and Bourbon (?), according to Schkuhr. Brazil, Raddi. — A Fern 

 with much of tlie general structure of P. Plumula, but quite truncated at llie 

 base ; that is, the segments are not gradually reduced in size towards the base 

 It is quite unknown to me. 



