32 POLYPODIUM, § GONIOPHLEBIUM. 



280. P. (Goniophlebium) cuspidatuvi, Don?; "caudex 

 creeping paleaceo-crinite/' stipites 8-10 inches or more long 

 fuscous glossy, frond 2-3 feet long 1 foot wide oblongo- 

 ovate glabrous firm-membranaceous pinnate, pinnae shortly 

 petiolate and articulated upon the rachis very patent opposite 

 or alternate 6-8 inches long i-| inch wide from a gradually 

 attenuated narrow-cuneate base elongato-lanceolate finely and 

 long-acuminate serrated entire at the base and at the point, 

 veins forming two or three series of areoles including a free 

 veinlet, the costal series only soriferous, sori much nearer 

 the costa than the margin more or less sunk and forming 

 more or less distinct pustules on the back. — Don, Fl. Nep. 

 p. 6 ? Bl. Fil. Jav. p. \']b.f, 82 {very good). Metten. Polyp, 

 p. 81. Goniophlebium, Pr. 



Hah. Nepal (Don). Java, Blume, Thos. Lobb, De Vriese and Teijsmann, n. 

 51. — This is best distinguished from P. subauriculatum Ijy its very finely acumi- 

 nated pinnules, which gradually taper into the short articulated petiole. If it is 

 the P. cuspidatum of Nepal, I have never seen it from that region, nor from the 

 Indian continent. 



281. P. (Goniophlebium) argutum. Wall. ; caudex thick 

 as a writing-quill squarrose with subulate blackish or brown 

 glossy scales, stipites 3-4 inches to a span long testaceous- 

 brown glossy, fronds firm-membranaceous glabrous 1-2 feet 

 long 8-10 inches broad pinnated, pinnae distant subhorizoii- 

 tally patent 4-6 inches long ^-| inch wide from a broader 

 but obtusely and oblique cuneated or subtruncated base (rarely 

 rotundato-auricled) elongato-oblong acuminate rather ob- 

 tusely serrated, lower ones often opposite, the rest alternate, 

 superior ones more or less adnate and decurrent, terminal 

 one similar to the rest, veins forming a costal series of large 

 oblong soriferous areoles, marginal veins and those towards 

 the apex of the pinnas all free, sori orbicular superficial (not 

 sunk) intermediate between the costa and the margin. — 

 Wall. Cat. n. 308. Goniophlebium, J. Sm. {no descr.) 



Hab. Northern India, chiefly in the Himalaya : Nepal and Kamaon, IVallich, 

 Madden, Strachey and IVinterbottom (alt. 7000-8000 ieet), Ladt/ Bal/tousie ; 

 Sikkim (alt. 8000 feet) and Khasya, Hooker fil. and T/tomson, Simons, n. 252 ; 

 Gowhatty Plains, Thomson. — This appears to be a good species, chiefly confined 

 to the great Himalayan range, from west to east. One of my specimens from 

 Khasya has large rounded auricles at the inferior base of the pinnre, occasionally 

 at the superior base also. 



282. P. (Goniophlebium) subauriculatum, Bl. ; caudex creep- 

 ing stoloniferous densely clothed with narrow acuminato- 

 setaceous scales subpruinate, stipites a span to a foot and 



