POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 237 



rather distant simple rarely forked soriferous near the mid- 

 dle, sori rather large nearer the margin than the costule, ra- 

 chis and costules and veins beneath more or less pubescently 

 villous. 



Ilab. Iiulia: Assam, Kliasya {Thos. Lobh), and Mishmee, Griffith; Sikkim- 

 Himalaya, Hooker fil. et Thomson. — This has few tangible characters of which 

 to constitute a species ; in general habit, especially in tiie usually elongated 

 lowest pair of segments of the pinna, it resembles Gymnogramme anrita, but it 

 is by no means so robust a plant. The numerous specimens in Dr. Hooker's In- 

 dian collection all bear the name of P. brunneum, Wall. {P.paladosum, Bl., of 

 this work) ; but that is clearly a bii)iiinate species, with elongated segments, and 

 pinnules quite pinnatifid at the margin. It is the ujjper and younger pinme of 

 the frond that have the greatest resemblance to the same in our plant ; but I am 

 far from asserting this may not prove a form of that species. 



1G2. P. (Phegopteris) ohscurum, Hook.; caudex?, stipes 

 (a portion only) 2-.3 inches long and as well as the rachis 

 intensely ebeneous-black polished glandularly pubescent, 

 fronds 1-H foot long G-10 inches broad submeml^ranaceous 

 ovate acuminate piiniate pinnatifid at the apex, pinnce rather 

 wide apart horizontally patent 4-5 inches long ^ (in the fer- 

 tile frond) -1 inc'i (in the sterile) broad oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate somewhat contracted in the lower half of the 

 sterile frond uniformly and deeply pinnatifid to near the ra- 

 chis in the fertile frond, less deeply above the middle in the 

 sterile one where the pinna is broadest, segments oblong ob- 

 tuse scarcely falcate entire or subserrate, the sinuses obtuse, 

 veins free in my specimens simple or forked, sori copious 

 dorsal or sometimes terminal in two series intermediate be- 

 tween the costule and the margin, costse and costules villosu- 

 lous very slender in the sterile plant stouter in the fertile the 

 former black at the base beneath. — Phegopteris obscura, Fee, 

 Gen, Fil. [name only). Stenosemia aurita, /. Sm. in Hook. 

 Gen. Fil. t. 94. ff. 5 and 6 [only, and as regards Cuming's 

 plant, n. 302). Phegopteris Philippinensis, 2d var., Mctten. 

 Phegopt. /?. 27. 



Hab. Leyti, Philippine Islands, Cuming, n. 302. Tavoy, C. S. P. Pariah, n. 

 51 (fertile fronds only). — A peculiar-looking i)lant, confounded with Phegopteris 

 Philippinensis by Metteiiius (Stenosemia aurita, I'r., J. Sm., Ggmnoyramme Phi- 

 lippinensis, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 181). 



163. P. (Phegopteris) auricul(itum,Vs'?\\.; caudex ?, stipes 

 stout \t, foot or niore long dirtv stramineous the upper part 

 auricled as it were by tlie dwarfed inferior pinnrc and as well 

 as the racliis densely villous witli yellowish spreading hairs, 

 fronds ample subcoriaceous 3 feet and more long 12-14 



