POLVPODIUM, § PIIEGOPTERIS. 263 



Stipes H foot long densely clothed at the base with blackish 

 coriaceous sul)ulate serrated scales 6 lines long, fronds mem- 

 branaceous, on both sides cano-pubescently villosulous 2 feet 

 long ovate acuminate tripinnate at the base, primary seg- 

 ments ovate acuminate, secondary ones shortly petiolate oIj- 

 long-lanceolate acuminate dilated at the inferior side, tertiary 

 or superior secondary ones achiatc with the decurreiit inferior 

 base oblong or clongato-oblong obtuse or acute pinnatifid or 

 pinnatipartite, the lobes oblong rotundato-obtuse entire, 

 veins undivided, sori intermediate between the costule and 

 the margin, capsules lax." — Phegopteris, Metten. Pher/opt. 

 p. 30. 



Hab. " Bahia, Brazil, Moricand, n. 2-454. — Distinguished from its affinities by 

 the form of the scales." Metian. 



207. P.? (Phegopteris) S/oanei, Kze. ; stipes 2h feet and 

 more long rufous-brown (and as well as the rachis) subpalea- 

 ceous or quite glabrous, the base for 4-5 inches most densely 

 clothed with beautiful long flexuose silky ferruginous tow, 

 rather than scales, the hairs often more than an inch long 

 resembling those on the stipes of JFoodwardia radicuns, 

 frond firm-membranaceous ample 3-4 feet and more long 2 

 feet and more broad tripinnate, primary pinnae often a foot 

 long broad ovate-oblong acuminate, ultimate pinnte or pin- 

 nules sessile 2-4 inches long oblong-acuminate deeply almost 

 to the rachis pinnatifid, segments oblong subobtuse entire or 

 crenate or more generally again more or less deeply pinna- 

 tifid, veinlets usually forked, one to each tooth or lobule the 

 upper branch bearing the sorus, sori forming two series in- 

 termediate between the costule and the margin large in an 

 old state small when young and then (according to Met- 

 tenius) exhibiting a minute hairy lastreoid indusium. — Kze. 

 inLinncea, ix. ;;. 51, and xviii. p. 322. P. ampluin, H. B. K. 

 in Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 207 ? Aspid., Metten. Aspid. p. 74 ? 

 {not Eat. Fit. Wright, et Fendl. p. 209). Poly pod. lachno- 

 podium, /. Sm. 



Ilab. Cuba, Poeppig {from Kze. in Herb, nontr.). Abundant in Jamaica, Jf'il- 

 son, Purdie, March, n. 161, Prior. St. Vincent, L. Guilding. Dominica, Imray. 

 Trinidad, De Shack. Volcan de Fuego, alt. 7000 feet, Guatemala, Salcyn. — This 

 is a very abundant plant in Jamaica, and may well be honoured with the name of 

 Sloanei ; but the figure of Sloane quoted l)y Mettenius can surely have nothing 

 to do with it, and I am doubtful of most of the synonyms adduced by the latter 

 author ; I am not even sure that our plant is his Aspid. amplum, though it is 

 probable our plant may be an Aspidaceous one. It is certainly not identical with the 

 Aspid. amplum of Eaton, n. 1055 (which is acknowledged by .Mettenius to be the 



