2 I'OLYPODIUM, § GOXIOPTERIS. 



of the Herald, p. 22']./. 48. Goniopteris, Moore {hut scarcely 

 Pol. crispatum, Linn., founded on the Aspleniuin alterum, pro- 

 pendens, et crispum, Flum. Fit. t. 102./. 2. B). 



Hab. Isle de Cacagual, Southern Darien and Bay of Clioco, Panama, Seemann, 

 n. 995. — Mr. J. Smith places this in Ctxnopteris, which should have free veins, 

 but he deems it worthy of constituting a new genus (Ghjp/iotieninm). Its vena- 

 tion corresponds very nearly with that of § Pleocnemia of Nephrodium (see p. 61 

 of our Vol. IV.), but the habit of the plant is very different. 



225. P. (Goniopteris) simplicifolium.. Hook.; caudex stout 

 creeping, stipites tufted at the apex of the caudex 2-4 inches 

 long hairy subpaleaceous below, fronds a span to a foot long 

 subcoriaceo-membranaceous lanceolate acuminate the margins 

 entire or subsinuate at the base lobate or pinnate, connivent 

 veinlets numerous giving a reticulated appearance, sori small 

 at the point of union of the veinlets at length confluent and 

 nieniscioid. — Nephrodium simplicifolium, J. Sm. Aspidium 

 (Nephrodium), Hook. Ic. Plant. ^.919 [or Cent, of Feigns, t. 

 19). Abacopteris simplicifolia. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 310. 



Hab. Samar, Philippine Islands, Cuming, n. 315. Fiji Islands, n. 736, Seemann. 

 — Misled by the views of others, I was induced, in Ic. Plant., to refer this to Ne- 

 phrodium, acknowledging however that I failed to discover any involucre, and 

 noticing the reseml)lance of its fructification to that of Meniscium. I have since 

 received other specimens from the Fiji Islands which quite conform to those of 

 Cuming. Mettenius refers Cuming's plant to Nephrodium lineaium, Pr. 



226. P. (Goniopteris) canescens,'E[.', "fronds pinnated be- 

 low, from the middle to the apex pinnatifid pubescelit on the 

 upper canescenti-villous on the lower surface, pinnse sessile 

 ovate obtuse slightly (nearly halfway down to the rachis) 

 pinnatifid, segments subfalcato-ovate obtuse entire the mar- 

 gins reflexed, stipes glabrous above pubescent beneath." — 

 Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 13.S. Gymnogramme, Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 93. 

 t. 40. Nephrodium Blumei, /. Sm., and Aspidium Bluraei, 

 var. subpinnata, Metten. Aspid., according to the references to 

 Blume, hut surely different, for that has the venation o/ Pleo- 

 cnemia {see p. 62, n. 3 of orir Vol. IV.). 



Hab. Java, Blume. — I am unacquainted with this species. It is represented 

 as having a creeping caudex, copious slender stipites a span and more long, fronds 

 of the same length, venation of Goniopteris, sori on the middle of the veinlets 

 subrotund or oblong ; the figure however shows the sori (really always involu- 

 crate) to be those of a Polypodium rather than of Gymnogramme. 



** Fronds pinnate. Sp. 227-249. 



227. P. (Goniopteris) crcnatum, Sw. ; caudex a stout ho- 

 rizontal rhizome, stipes 1-2 feet long stramineous glossy 

 often pubescent, fronds membranaceous 1-1 ^ foot long more 



