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broader towards the l)ase, the margin subundulato-lobate, 

 costa very prominent cinnamon-red. 



llab. Luzon, Cuming, n. 415. Java, Z)e Vriese and Teijumann, n. A\ . — Mr. 

 Cuming's specimens very much reseml)le tliose of some of his wliicli I have 

 brought uiuler P. urophijUum, but the piiuue are lojiger and narrower and the 

 sori are clearly at the base of the veinlets and close to the costules ; they liave 

 the same position in tlie Java specimens. 



246. P. (Goniopteris) Panangianum, Hook.; caudex ?, 

 stipes (portion of) and rachis moderately stout quite gla- 

 brous cinnamon-red, fronds ample membranaceous dark- 

 green glal)rous pinnated, pinnfc (8-10 pairs only of the base 

 of the frond) G-U-IO inches long 1-1^ inch broad from a cu- 

 neate subattenuated subpetioled base elongato-oi)long lan- 

 ceolate finely acuminated coarsely and sharply submucro- 

 nately and subduplicato-serrated, serratures moderately patent 

 uniform, veinlets 8-9 pairs very frequently alternate (not op- 

 posite as is usual in Goniopteris, consequently the 5-6 pairs 

 which are connivent or united are so by means of the sj)u- 

 rious veins formed by the prolongation of the united pairs 

 and this is slender and more or less flexuose, sori at the base 

 of each veinlet forming 2 closely placed series only separated 

 by the primarv vein or costule. — Pol. urophyllum, tl a/l.,var. 

 angusta ? " Pol. lineatum," II all. Cat. n. 299. .3. 



Hab. Penang, Wallich. — I have only the lower portion of two specimens a foot 

 or more long of this Fern, eacii with 10 very uniform pairs of pinnae as described 

 above. It cannot be the P. urophyllum of Wallich, for that has never sharp ser- 

 ratures; the texture alone would distinguish it also from that and from P. linea- 

 tum, with which the serratures agree; and there are more striking characters in 

 the alternate veinlets and in the basal insertion of the sori, so that the two series 

 are unusually wide apart. 



247. P. (Goniopteris) proUferum, Pr. ; caudex thickish 

 subrepand, stipites clustered erect varying in length, fronds 

 glabrous or pilosulous ]-2 feet and more long subcoriaceous 

 glabrous pinnated and at the apices and the axils of the pinnee 

 repeatedly proliferous and widely extended, piniiije 3-6 inches 

 long sessile oblong-lanceolate acuminate sometimes auricled at 

 the base entire or in age coarsely crenato-serrate, veinlets 4 to 

 5 pairs or 8-10 in the longer pinnte connivent and forming a 

 continued spurious vein or costule, sori oval rather than sub- 

 rotund in the middle of the veinlet sometimes near the point of 

 junction and then confluent and meniscioid. — Roxb. in Wall. 

 Cat.n. 312 [not Kaulf.). Meniscium, Siv. Si/n. Fit. p. 19 and 

 207, Hook. 2d Cent. 0/ Ferns, t. 15, llilld. Sp. PI. v. p. 135. 

 Goniopteris, Pr. P. luxurians, K;:e. Phegopteris, Metten. 



