10 POLYPODIUM, § GONIOPTERIS. 



ming, n, 16, not of Blume) . Aspidium repanduni, Bl. Fil. Jav. 

 p. 144 in Herb, nostr. {not IViUd.) — ^, uniseriale ; sori uni- 

 serial. P. granulosum, Benth. Ft. Hongkong, p. 499 {accord- 

 ing to the specific character and the locality of Col. Urguhart), 

 not of Presl. Nephrod. gland ulosum, /. Sm. in Seem. Bot. 

 Herald, p. 428 ? 



Hall. Assam and Penang, Wallich. Assam and Sikkim, Griffith, Hooker fil. 

 and Thomaon (often with quite entire pinnules and deeply tinged with red). Phi- 

 lippine Islands, Cuming, n. 178 .' Nos. 314 and 361 are referred by Mr. J. Smith, 

 and I think correctly, to Meniscium cuspidatnm, Bl., and I believe they are the 

 M. Cumingii of Fee, Gen. p. 222. They are comparatively small specimens, with 

 nearly entire pinnse turning almost black when dry, the veins sunk, not sensibly 

 elevated; they vary from a simple or undivided frond (with sori), in others 

 with 1-3 and 5 or more pinnae. I have nearly the same form from Moulmein, 

 Parish, n. 135, but destitute of sori. Moulmein and Rangoon, Thomas Lobb, 

 Parish (who sends the membranaceous pinnule of a young frond with evidently 

 a minute cordiform scale or involucre before there is any appearance of capsules). 

 China: Chusan, Hance ; Java, Blume, Thos. Lobb, De Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 

 326, Millett (sori generally biseriate, rarely united and raeniscioid). Penang, Sir 

 IF. Xorris, Hance (pinnse lanceolate). Luzon, Cuming, n. 16 (with indistinct 

 traces of a hairy involucre). Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1137 (more membranaceous 

 and narrower pinnse, fronds mostly deeply tinged with red). Fiji Islands (more ser- 

 rated and somewhat approachinq; P. midlilineatum. Wall.), and island of Aneiteum, 

 N. Hebrides, Macgillivray, n.877, and Milne, n. 355 (very large, rachis and costae 

 cinnamon-red, pinnae 18 inches long and 2^ broad. Lahuan, Motley, n. 331. 

 Hongkong, Urquhart. — Ever since 1822 this Fern has been known and circulated 

 by the generous Wallich under the appropriate name of Pot. urophylluni. My 

 valued correspondent Mr. Parish has lately convinced me that a minute indu- 

 sium is seen upon the undeveloped sorus, which may require this (and possibly 

 the same may be found in an equally early stage upon other species of Goniopte- 

 ris), and thus necessitate its transfer to Eunephrodium. Blume refers the species 

 to Meniscium, and his figure would almost justify him; but all my Java speci- 

 mens indicate (with rare exceptions) a distinct biserial arrangement of rounded 

 sori, and Blume himself says, " sori sublongi aut ovales aut saepe subrotundi, soli- 

 tarii in ramis singulis brevissimis venarum lateralium." Mettenius places it in 

 his Goniopteris group of Phegopteris, and remarks, as distinctive of its species, 

 " soros binos distinctos arcubus niacularum procreant;" whereas, "in Meniscio 

 sporangia sorum continuum, arcus macularum omnino occupantem eftbrmant." 

 It is quite certain that, as far as the East Indian meniscioid Polypodia are con- 

 cerned, the origin of the apparently solitary sorus is often at the point of union 

 of the two veinlets, extending as it were laterally down the veinlets ; and I am far 

 from certain that position of sori on the veinlets is even of specific value, as in a 

 following species, P. nmltilineatum. Whether the two genera (or subgenera) 

 should be kept asunder is very much a matter of opinion. 



The var. ,3 has every appearance of a small specimen, with few pinnae, of P. 

 urophyllum, and Mr. Bentham not unnaturally concluded it to be such, for he 

 has referred to that as a synonym ; but the sori are here invariably uniserial ! and 

 so subrotund as not to give the idea of these being two confluent sori of a Polypo- 

 dium. It is very unlike the figure of P. glandulosum, Pr., whatever that may be. 

 The Nephrod. grandulosum of J. Sm., above quoted, is founded on two plants 

 of Cuming : one, Aspid. glandulosum of Bl. (see p. 76 of Vol. IV. of this work), 

 Cuming's n. 298 ; the other, Cuming's n. 16, P. urophyllum, Wall, and of us. 



211. P. (Goniopteris) harhatum. Hook.; "stipes paleaceous 



