238 POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 



inches wide oblong broad-lanceolate acuminate singularly and 

 suddenly attenuated below by the numerous dwarfed ear- 

 like pinnee, pinnated, pinnae approximate above distant below 

 4-7 inches long f-1 inch broad sessile oblong suddenly 

 short-acuminated at the apex deeply almost to the rachis 

 pinnatifid truncate at the base, segments horizontal broad- 

 ol)long very obtuse entire subfalcate, sinuses acute, veins ap- 

 proximate mostly simple all free, but the lowest opposite 

 pair uniting with a pellucid cartilaginous line at the sinus 

 soriferous in the middle between the costule and the margin, 

 cost£e and costules and sometimes the segments more or 

 less hirsute. — Wall. Cat. n. 314. — Var. jB, subgkihrum ; seg- 

 ments narrower, stipites and rachis subglabrous and of a 

 reddish hue. 



Hab. Nepal, fVallich, n. 3li. Sim\a., Edr/worth. Sikkim-Himalaya, //oo^^'r//. 

 et Thomson, n. 201b. — Var. ^. Assam and Khasya, Griffith. — This belongs to a puz- 

 zling group of Ferns of India allied to P. erubescens of Wallich. The P. auricula- 

 turn of Wallich has long been distributed by that generous botanist, but I do not 

 find it anywhere noticed. The species is best distinguished by the many dwarfed 

 and distant pinnae, resembling auricles, on the upper part of the stipes, and in the 

 normal state is very villous on the stipes and rachis and on the costaj and cos- 

 tules beneath, and more or less on the frond itself. The var. y3, however, liere 

 noticed, shows a near affinity with P. erubescens ; but there the sori are costulate, 

 here at a distance between the margin and the costule. I possess specimens 

 quite according with these, but wanting the dwarfed lower pinnae. 



164. P. (Phegopteris) rotundatum, Hook. ; caudex ?, stipes 

 1 4 foot long stout dirty-brown scaly below with very long 

 linear-subulate dark-brown scales (upwards becoming hairy) 

 which are continued up the rachis and on the costse costule 

 etc., frond 2-2^ feet long nearly a foot broad firm subcoria- 

 ceo-membranaceous opaque brownish-green pellucido-punc- 

 tate with very copious yellowish crowded dots broad-ovato- 

 lanceolate acuminate pinnate pinnatifid towards the apex, 

 lowest pinnae petioled, the rest sessile 4-6 inches long i-1 

 inch wide oblong truncated at the base acuminated at the 

 apex with a long entire point deeply pinnatifid almost to the 

 rachis, superior pinnae adnate at the base and slightly decur- 

 rent, the lobes shorter, all the lobes oblong subfalcate obtuse 

 or with an oblique acute point, veins with four pairs of rather 

 short veinlets simple or forked soriferous at or near the apex, 

 the sori thus forming series nearer the margin than the costule. 

 — Aspidium rotundatum, Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 247 ? Plum. Fil. 

 p. 29. t. 38. 



llab. Martinicjue, Plumier. Near Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 4G56. — 



