POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 235 



erect or ascending coarsely scaly, stipites a span to 14 inches 

 long stout brown quite squarrose with large broad-ovate acu- 

 minated opaque downy scales mixed with smaller scales and 

 with down which are continued uj) the rachis, fronds anij)le 

 Ih foot and more long nearly a foot wide firm-njcnd)ranace- 

 ous broad-ovate acuminate glabrous above very downy and 

 almost woolly beneath pinnated pinnatifid at the apex, 

 pinnae 6-8 inches long 1-2 inches broad horizontally patent 

 sometimes quite opposite often subfalcate, the lowest more 

 or less deflexed subpetiolate from a rather broad truncated 

 base parallel with the rachis oblong gradually and rather 

 finely acuminate deeply beyond the middle towards the costa 

 pinnatitid, segments large ^-1 i"ch long ovate or oblong 

 more or less obtuse entire or serrated, veins approximate 

 once or twice forked, sori dorsal sometimes forming an in- 

 termediate line or series between the costule and the margin 

 sometimes rather irregularly scattered, costai beneath very 

 woolly and more or less scaly. 



Hab. St. Helena, Cuming, n. 423, on Diana's Peak, /. D. Hooker, in dense 

 woods, where it grows 3-5 feet high. — A fine and well-marked speeies, which 

 does not appear to have been taken up by any author. 



159, P. (Phegopteris) Sieberianum, Klfs. ; caudex?, pe- 

 tiole 10-18 inches long stout dark-brown at the base, the 

 rest and the rachis stramineous glossy, frond ample l|-2 

 feet long nearly a foot wide firm subcoriaceo-membranaceous 

 broad-ovate or cordate acuminate glabrous pinnate, pinnae 

 8-10 pairs mostly opposite horizontally patent 5-6 inches 

 long 1-2 inches broad falcate curved upwards, lowest pair 

 deflexed unequal sided (inferior half the broadest) and de- 

 flexed all of them from a dilated base somewhat overlapping 

 the rachis broad-oblong acuminate pinnatifid halfway or more 

 down to the costa with oblong subfalcate acute entire lobes, 

 terminal pinna very large long-petioled ovate acuminate and 

 pinnatifid, costule pinnated with 12-14 simple or forked 

 approximate veins of which the lower opposite ones nearly 

 meet at the sinus not unfrequently anastomosing, sori small 

 dorsal sometimes arranged in a regular series between the 

 costule sometimes scattered. — KfJ's. En. in Spreny. Syst. Nat. 

 iv. p. 56. Phegopteris, Fee, Gen. p. 243. Metten. Pheyopt. 

 p. 21. 



Hah. Mauritius, Sieber, Syn. Fil. n. 37, Carmichael, Bunton, Admiral Sir F. 

 Grey. — A noble species, allied in general habit and venation to the South Ame- 

 rican Phegopteris brachyodm of Mettenius, which I have referred to Eunephro- 



