244 POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 



as well as the base of the stipites clothed with broadly ad- 

 nate ovate acuminated glandular scales" (M^'//e/i.), stipites 

 1-2 (and probably much more) feet long pubescenti-villous 

 reddish-brown from the size of a goose-quill to the thick- 

 ness of one's little finger, on two opposite sides are several 

 large ovate acuminated membranaceous scales generally at- 

 tached within a small spine-like process, fronds from 1 

 foot (and fertile) to 4 feet (and probably much more) long 

 "the tallest specimen 9 feet high and not otherwise distin- 

 guishable from the humblest " {Spruce) broad-ovate acumi- 

 nate membranaceous or more or less coriaceous often mi- 

 nutely resinoso-glandulose beneath, pinnated pinntitifid only 

 at the apex, pinnee very numerous approximate nearly hori- 

 zontal 10-12-14 (probably much more) inches long 1-H 

 inch wide sessile or nearly so with a large scariose brown 

 deciduous scale at the point of insertion beneath, from a 

 broad truncated base elongato-oblong suddenly acuminated 

 into a narrow entire point deeply and nearly to the stout 

 costa pectinato-pinnatifidjthe segments ^-J inch long linear- 

 oblong horizontally spreading with great regularity very ob- 

 tuse entire parallel, sinuses very narrow acute, veins very 

 evident simple close parallel oblique, sori small copious dor- 

 sal below the middle so as to form two series nearer the cos- 

 tule than the margin sometimes quite costular, rachis and 

 costee generally downy often mixed with hairs, the segments 

 often ciliated. — Linn. Sp. PL p. 1555. Stv. Syn. Fit. p. 40. 

 Willd. Sp. PL V. p. 204. Phegopteris, Metten. Phegopt. 

 p. 17. Glaphyropteris, P7\ Polypod. Grammicum, Spr. 

 Gymnogranmie microcarpa, Fee, ^me Mem. p. 43. /. 20./'. 5 

 {very faithfid). Plum. FiL p. 19. t. 24. 



Hab. Tropical America. Abundant in the West Indian Islands. Venezuela, 

 Fendler, n. 373. Panama, Sutton Hayes. Ecuador, Spruce, n. 525r), 5651. 

 Peru, Matheivs, Lechler. — One of the handsomest of South American Ferns. 



174. P. (Phegopteris) pahidosum, Bl. ; caudex?, stipes 

 elongated H foot and more long scaleless in all my speci- 

 mens fusco-stramineous (sometimes bright chestnut-co- 

 loured), fronds 1^-3 feet long 6-12 inches wide firm sub- 

 coriaceo-membranaceous broad-oblong-lanceolate acuminate 

 bipinnate only below, above pinnate pinnatifid at the 

 apex, pinnae distant subpetiolate alternate 3-8-10 inches 

 long 1-2 inches broad in some cases suberecto-patent elon- 

 gato-oblong acuminated, those that are again pinnated have 



