14 POLYPODIUM, § GONIOPTERIS. 



Phegopt. p. 25. Ampelopteris elegans, Kze. in Bot. Zeit. vi. 

 p. 114, and A. firma, Kze. in Linncea, xxiv. />. 133. 



Hub. India, Konig ; appaiently universal in hilly regions, Wallich, Griffith, 

 Hook. fil. and Thomson, etc. Luzon, Cmjwhi^, ». 168. idiVa., Zollinger. S.China, 

 Sampson {from Mr. Hance). S. Africa, Robinson. — A very variable species, re- 

 markable for its proliferous tendency and apparently climbing habit. The sori 

 are not sufficiently elongated either for Gymnoyramme or for Meniscium. 



248. P. (Goniopteris) artlirothrix^ldook,', caudex?, plant 

 villous with soft spreading glossy brown sericeous dis- 

 tinctly jointed hairs more copious beneath and longest on 

 the costee, stipes (upper portion only) as well as the rachis 

 densely fusco-villous with patent hairs, fronds 1 foot and pro- 

 bably more long 5-6 inches broad firm membranaceous dark 

 brown when dry ovate-oblong acuminated pinnatifid at the 

 apex, pinnss rather distant subpetiolate 3-4 inches long |-| 

 inch wide from a broad truncated rarely auricled base oblong 

 obtusely acuminated upwardly obtuse (not acuminated) the 

 margin quite entire on the lower ones crenate or lobato-cre- 

 nate, veins distant flexuose sunk, veinlets 3-4 pairs distant 

 one or two lower pairs united so as to form large areoles the 

 rest free or rarely united but from the united lowest pair a 

 produced veinlet extends to the margin forming an imperfect 

 spurious vein or costule, sori on the middle of the veinlet or 

 at the junction of a veinlet smallish subrotund and apparently 

 sometimes more or less elongated. 



Ilab. Madagascar, Bojer, Lyall. — This is too remarkable a plant to leave unno- 

 ticed, and which 1 have received from two dilferent collectors, although I could 

 wish for more, and more perfect, specimens to describe from. If a Goniopteris,\t 

 it is very aberrant in its venation : the costules or primary veins are not distinct 

 and parallel, and the sori are placed very irregularly, liere and there two seem to 

 be confluent. 



249. P. (Goniopteris) poecilophJebium, Hook.; caudex?, 

 stipes a span and more long slender glabrous as is the whole 

 plant, fronds 10-12 inches long and as much broad very firm 

 membranaceous subdeltoid pinnated, pinnee about 7> lateral 

 ones in distant pairs subalternate subpetiolate, terminal one 

 generally the largest long petiolate 6-9 inches long l|-2 

 inches broad broad-lanceolate acuminate, margin a little 

 thickened serrated nearly entire at tlie base and at the very 

 apex, primary veins or costules rather distant, veinlets erecto- 

 patent 6-7 pairs, lowest pair elongated always free and pa- 

 rallel with the costules the rest united or free, the united 

 apices sending out a short free veinlet and forming a continu- 



