POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYPODTUM. 227 



****** Fronds Mpinnatc, or hipinnatifid, or decompound. 142-151. 



142. P. (Eupolypodium) tenuisecium, BL; caudex ("creep- 

 ing somewhat woody," BL), stipites 3-4-5 inches long sub- 

 aggregated shaggy with copious long patent ferruginous 

 hairs partially continued up the rachis, fronds a span to a 

 foot long 2-2h inches broad rigid-subcoriaceous sparsely 

 black-setose broad-lanceolate acuminate moderately atte- 

 nuated at the base bipinnate (or hipinnatifid), primary pinntc 

 1-2 inches long rather distant linear-lanceolate acuminate 

 patent, upper ones especially long-decurrent so as to be co- 

 adunate, lower ones distinct, pinnules 1-H line long very 

 narrow-linear, all of them decurrent so as to form a winged 

 margin to the costa, veins solitary in each pinnule little more 

 than half its length, sori solitary much below the clavate 

 apex of the veins and near the costule large globose. — BL 

 Fil. Jew. p. 189. t. 88. A. Metten. Fil. Lechl. p. 5.t.2. f, 

 1-3. Hook. 2d Cent, of Ferns, t. 21. P. myriophyllum, 

 Metten. Fil. Lechl. p- 6 [not BL). 



Hab. Java, lofty mountains, on trees, Elume, Zollinger, Thos. Lobb. Trunks 

 of trees, near Talaiiaca, Peru, Lechler. — A beautiful and apparently rare species, 

 yet inliabiting lofty mountains both in Java and in tropical America. Mettenius 

 a[)pears to be in doubt wbeilier tliis should l)e considered a Polypodium, in his 

 view of the genus, or Phegopteris, Pr., which he sanctions as a genus. 



143. P. (Eupolypodium) miUefoUum, Bl. ; " caudex creep- 

 ing, stipes 1-3 lines long villous with patent ferruginous 

 hairs, fronds rigid-membranaceous 8 inches long sparingly 

 setose on the costee lanceolate acuminate bi- or tripinnatifid, 

 the primary segments 9 lines long attenuated at the adnata 

 base ovate or ovato-lanceolate diminishing at each end, se- 

 condary ones 3-4 lines long, and the tertiary ones confluent 

 with a narrow wing, lowest ones decurrent on the stipes from 

 a cuneately attenuated base linear-oblong or spathulate en- 

 tire serrated or pinnatifid, veins of Cceaopteris ending in an 

 incrassated apex at the middle of the segments, primary su- 

 perior segments fertile deeply pinnatifid, the segments nar- 

 row ovato-oblong rather acute, vein forked monosorous at 

 the apex of a superior abbreviated branch." Metten. — BL 

 Fil. Jav. p. 190. t. 78. A, Metten. PohjpocL p. 54. t. 1. /. 



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Hab. Java, " Blume, Zollinger, n. 1723."— I have never seen this species, which 

 appears very distinct from P. teiMisectum, but with which Mettenius seems at one 

 time to have confounded it. 



