POLYl'ODIUM, § GONIOPflLEIJIUM. 31 



**** Fronds pinnate (IndianJ. Sp. 278-282. 



278. P. (Goniophlebium) verrucosum. Wall. ; caudex long 

 stout creeping very paleaceous, stipites 1^ foot and more long, 

 fronds 2-3 feet long oblongo-acuminatc firm-niembranaceous 

 drooping, pinnae numerous but distant 6-9 inclies long 1-H 

 inch broad oblong costate articulate upon the rachis sud- 

 denly and shortly cuspidato-acuniinate entire or serrated 

 chiefly towards the apex nearly sessile, the base obliquely 

 cuneate, primary veins slender but straight and parallel cos- 

 tuliform forming with the anastomosing veins four or five 

 series of areoles each with a free included veinlet but of 

 which the lowest series only is soriferous, sori in a single 

 series next the costa sunk in a deep cavity having a corre- 

 sponding pustule on the upper side, capsules long stipitate 

 mixed with paraphyses. — Wall. Cat. n. 296. Metten. Polyp. 

 J). SI. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 41. Marginaria, Hook. Gen. 

 F'll. t. 10 J?. Goniophlebium, /. Sni. — ^; pubescenti-vil- 

 lous (young). 



Hab. Penang and Singapore, JValUch. Amboyna, n. 54, and Ceram and Java, 

 n. 52 mid 73, JJe Vriese and Teijsmann. Luzon, Cuming, n. 227. /8. Luzon, n. 

 29L — A distinct and very handsome species, with rich-brown sori parallel with 

 and near the costa, the costa sunk in a deep cavity or l)ag, forming a prominent 

 corresponding pustule or sack on tlie opposite side of the pinna. 



279. P. (Goniophlebium) gr^ and 1 dens, Kze. ; " caudex 

 creeping densely clothed with ovate acuminato- setose rufb- 

 fucous scales, stipites stramineous sparsely (at the insertion 

 of the pinna3 more densely) paleaceous at length glabrous 

 glossy reddish, frond 2-6 feet long membranaceous firm 

 opaque-green glabrous elongato-lanceolate ])iniiate, piniuc 

 4-7 lines long shortly petiolulate from an unequally cuneated 

 entire base lanceolate or linear-lanceolate acuminate coarsely 

 serrated, areoles of Goniophlebium three- to five-seriate, the 

 lowest anterior branch fertile, sori terminal impressed ratlier 

 large in one series near the costa, sporangia mixed with cla- 

 vate paraphyses." Metten. — Kze. Bot. Zeit. iv. p. 42.3, and 

 in Linnaa, xxiii. 7;. 318. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 33. t. 2.3. 

 f. 1, 2. P. colpothrix, Kze. in Linnceu, xxiii. p. 316 {Jide 



Metten.). 



ITab. Java, Zollinger, De Vriese, n. 51 (less coarsely and less unequally ser- 

 rated, but in other respects similar). — I have seen no authentic example of this 

 Fern. Tf De Vriese's specimens be the same, I should consider it as a more 

 coarsely serrated form of P. verrucosum, as P. serraCiJblium, Urack., is of P. 

 sit/jauricula/um. 



