254 POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 



partially paleaceous below with lanceolato-acuminate scales, 

 fronds 10-12 inches long firm-membranaceous deltoideo- 

 ovate very minutely glandulose beneath and hairy, bipinnate 

 below, the rest pinnate, pinnatifid at the long acuminated 

 apex, pinnae sessile or nearly so, lowest pair of pinnte half- 

 ovate (pinnules of the inferior side the longest), the rest 

 from a broad base oblong much acuminated deeply almost 

 to the rachis pinnatifid, uppermost ones entire confluent, 

 all subfalcate, segments and ultimate pinnules oblong very 

 slightly falcate obtuse entire or lobato-serrate often subauri- 

 cled, veins pinnated, veinlets simple or forked, sori rather 

 small in two rows nearer the costule or principal vein than 

 to the margin, rachises and costse with copious spreading white 

 hairs. 



Hab. Fernando Po, Barter. — Allied to P. Mannianum, but certainly very dif- 

 ferent in its larger size, differently shaped segments, the very.hairy under-surface, 

 and sharply acuminated apices to the pinnae. The lowest pair of pinnae have a 

 little disposition to be bipinnate. 



190. P. (Phegopteris) Milnei, Hook.; caudex long creep- 

 ing (possibly scandent) densely clothed with close-pressed 

 imbricated subpeltate linear subulate ciliated ferruginous 

 scales black in the disk of their broad base, stipites very re- 

 mote thick as a crow's-quill and as well as the main rachis 

 dark castaneous-brown glabrous and scaleless subebeneous, 

 fronds 1 h-2 feet and more long dark-green firm-membrana- 

 ceous quite glal)rous deltoid-ovate long acuminate, bipinnate 

 below, the rest pinnate, lowest primary pair of pinnge 8 inches 

 long ovate acuminate sessile or nearly so, their pinnules 

 1^-2 inches long oblong-lanceolate pinnatifid more or less 

 deeply, the rest of the primary pinnae 5-6 inches and more 

 long 2 inches broad deeply almost to the rachis pinnatifid, 

 the segments 1-1 1 inch long ^ of an inch wide suberecto- 

 patent oblong-lanceolate obtuse lobato-pinnatifid, superior 

 and shorter ones entire, veins copious rather distant twice or 

 thrice or more forked, one or more veinlet bearing a sorus 

 (often appearing quite terminal) and thus the sori form two 

 rather irregular series nearer the margin than the costule. 



Hab. Futuna, New Hebrides, Milne. — A very fine and, I think, quite distinct 

 species, with unusually long segments. 



191. P. (Phegopteris) HUIebrandi, Hook.; caudex?, stipes?, 

 frond ample subcoriaceo-membranaceous very dark-green 

 when dry (probably succulent when recent) glabrous mi- 



