220 POLYFODIUM, § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



127. P. (Eupolypodium) subpetiolatum, Hook.; caudex 

 rather stout paleaceous with brown subulate scales, stipites 

 distant 4 inches to a span long stramineous, fronds 1-1^ foot 

 long ovato-lanceolate subcoriaceo-membranaceous pinnated 

 pinnatifid only at the apex and ending in an elongated cau- 

 date lobe, pinn83 alternate remote rather distant 3-3^ inches 

 long aliout i an inch wide lanceolate gradually but generally 

 ol)tusely acuminated more or less serrulate, inferior ones 

 oliliquely truncate at the base and subpetiolate, the petiole 

 winged above, superior ones obliquely cuneate subadnate, 

 uppermost ones decurrent at the rather broad base and conflu- 

 ent, costee pale downy beneath, veins approximate dark- 

 coloured slender 2-4 times forked, sori copious subrotund 

 fulvous in two series each rather nearer the costule than the 

 margin, rachis testaceous stout. — Hook, in Benth. PL Hart- 

 iveg. p. 54, and in Ic. PL t.29\, 292. Metten. Pohjpod.p. 63. 

 P. serratum. Mart, et GaL FiL Mex. p. 38. /. 9. /. 1 {accord- 

 ing to Mettenius, in Herb, nostr., but the jnnna are very un- 

 like those of that figure ; it is probably a variable species). 

 Metten. Polyp, p, 62. P. Cubense, Fee, 6me Mem. p. 61. t. 

 26. /. 1. 



Hab. Mexico, liartweg, n. 414. Cordillera of Oaxaca, alt. 6500-7500 feet, 

 3Iart. et Galeotti. Guatemala, Skinner (pinna; entire or nearly so, and mar- 

 gined, 4 inches long; veins very rarely anastomosing). Cuba, Linden {fide 

 Metten.). 



128. P. (Eupolypodium) puberidum, Schlecht. ; "caudex 

 creeping clothed with lanceolate acuminate ferruginous 

 scales, stipes 4| inches long, fronds membranaceous some- 

 what rigid pubescent on the costa and veins 1 foot long 

 ovato-oblong acuminate pinnated, pinnce 2 inches long 2-3^ 

 lines wide from a broad base which is truncated above or trun- 

 cato-auriculate, below exciso-auriculate lanceolate subfalcate 

 gradually attenuated repand or irregularly crenato-sinuate, 

 lowest ones scarcely abbreviated sessile free, the next up- 

 wards below free above adnate, uppermost ones on the frond 

 broad-adnate, veins manifest, sori near the margin (often oval 

 and oblique)." Metten. — P. puberulum, Schlecht. in Linnoia, 

 v. p. 607- Kze. in Linnaea, xviii. p. 330. Liebold, FiL Mex. 

 p. 50. Metten. Pohjpod.p. 63 {excL syn.). P. Hartwegia- 

 num. Hook. Ic. PL t. 390. P. subpetiolatum. Eat. in Plant. 

 Wright et Fendl. {not Hook.). P. biauriculatum, Hook. Ic. 

 FL t. 121. 



ilab. Mexico, ScM»de et Deppe {Schlecht.). Oaxaca, Licbold {in Herb, nostr.). 



