258 POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 



subcoriaceous pu])erulous on the costa on both sides and on 

 the rachis and stipes, lower pinnules petiolate oblong-lanceo- 

 late cuneate at the base and deeply pinnatifid, segments and 

 superior (adnate) pinnules oblong obtuse crenulate." Bl. 

 Fil. Jav. p. 194. t. 91. Metten. Phegopt. p. 13. Aspidium, 

 Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 168. 



Hab. Java, Blume. — Unknown to me, as it appears to be also to Mettenius. 

 Tlie figure has a good deal the general aspect oi Aspidium coriaceum. 



198. P. (Phegopteris) scriceum, Hook.; " caudex creeping 

 paleaceous, stipes slender and together with the fronds 

 sericeo-hirsute, fronds subpellucid ovate acuminate bipinnate 

 at the base pinnatifid towards the apex, lowest pinnee oppo- 

 site insequilateral ovate, lateral pinnules on the lower side 

 larger elongated pinnatifid, on the superior side smaller 

 scarcely incised, superior pinnse oblongo-ovate pinnatifid, the 

 segments obliquely ovate obtuse larger on the superior side, 

 veins on the costule pinnated free simple or forked, sori on 

 the back of the veins near the costule, capsules mixed with 

 pellucid articulated very long hairs." Phegopteris, Eat. in 

 Fil. Wright, et Fendl. p. 208. 



Hab. Cuba, C. Wright, n. 1054. — " Caudex thick as a crow's quill, scaly. 

 Stipes nearly a foot long, slender, sericeo-pubescent. Fronds \ a foot long, 3-4 

 (and more) inches wide, deltoideo-ovate, silky on both sides with whitish articu- 

 lated hairs." Eat.— Mr. Eaton justly says of this, " Filix pulchella a ceteris Phe- 

 ffopteridis speciebus plane diversa." The oblique insequilateral pinnules give the 

 plant a somewhat polystichoid character. 



199. P. (Phegopteris) splendidum, Klfs. ; caudex ?, stipes 

 in one of our specimens 2 feet and more long thick as a 

 goose-quill furrowed and glabrous, frond ample 4-5 feet 

 long coriaceo-membranaceous opaque glabrous or hirsutulous 

 on the veins bipinnate in the more mature state pinnatifid at 

 the apex (rarely only pinnate with the pinnae pinnatifid), 

 primary pinnae 1-1| foot long, lower ones petioled 3-6-7 

 inches wide oblong-ovate acuminate copiously pinnate pin- 

 natifid towards the apex, piimules more or less distant 2-2| 

 inches long |-| inch wide sessile towards the base, upper 

 ones more or less adnate pinnatifid halfway down to the 

 costa with ovate obtuse lobes, superior primary pinnaj often 

 8-10 inches long 2 inches and more broad deeply more than 

 halfway down to the costa pinnatifid with broad-oblong fal- 

 cate entire segments, veins immersed (not in the least pro- 

 minent but conspicuous when seen between the eye and the 

 light) pinnated with rather numerous veinlets many of them 



