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more long sparingly paleaceous rufous-brovA'n, fronds firm 

 subcoriaceo-membranaceous glabrous 2-G feet long a foot 

 and more wide ])innated, pinnre horizontal numerous yet re- 

 mote 3-4 to 8-10 inches long \ to nearly 5 an inch" wide 

 shortly petioled and jointed on the rachis from a somewhat 

 cordate or truncated and occasionally auricled base linear-lan- 

 ceolate finely and gradually acuminated serrated, veins form- 

 ing a double costular series of areoles including a free venule 

 of which the lower series is soriferous, marginal veinlets free, 

 sori in a single series nearer the costa than the margin form- 

 ing slightly elevated pustules on the superior side. — Bl. Fil. 

 Jav. p. 177- t- ^-^ [very gdod). Metien. Fil. Flort. Lips.p.33. 

 P. Reinwardtii, Kze. {fide Mttten.). Goniophlebium, De 

 Vriese. G. Pleopeltis, Fee. — Var. /3, serratifolia ; piniue very 

 coarsely serrated. Goniophlebium serratifolium, Brack. Fil. 

 U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 35. Polyp, pallens, Bl. Fil. Jav. t. 84. 

 f.\. J. Sm. Metten. Pohjpod. y^ 81. 



Ilab. Java, Blume, Zollinger, Millett, Thos. Lobb, n. 263, De Vriese and Teijs- 

 mann, n. 48, 53, and 68. Sumatra, De Vriese, n. 56. Luzon, Cuming, n. 244. 

 Khasya, Simons, n. 282. — /3. Fiji Islands, Brackenridge, Milne, Seemann. Luzon, 

 Cuming, n. 203. Java, De Vriese. — Tliis is a much larger Fern than the pre- 

 ceding, P. argutum, with n:uch longer and narrower and more linear pinnae, never 

 sensibly widened towards the base, and rarely found on the Indian continent. 

 P. pullens, BL, appears to be a small pubescent state of this species. 



§ 7. Craspedaria. — Venation, in some respec/s, of the previous section, Gonio- 

 phlebium, in a subgenus of which J. Smith and Moore place it ; but the veins 

 are often difficult to be seen, and certainly variable in different species, and the 

 habit is very different from that group. It is best recognized by the small 

 size, simple, nstially dimorphous, and more or less hairy or paleaceous fronds, 

 and very long, creeping, scaly caudices. — Gen. Craspedaria, Link, Fe'e. Mar- 

 ginaria, in part, Presl. Sp. 283-290. 



283. P. (Craspedaria) piloselloides, Linn. ; caudex very 

 long creeping or scandent filiform branched setaceously rufo- 

 paleaceous, stipites ^^-1^ inch long slender, fronds sparse sub- 

 coriaceous clothed more or less on Ijoth sides with rufous subu- 

 lato-setaceous appressed at length deciduous scales ; sterile 

 ones |-3 inches long ^-| inch wide ovate and acute or lan- 

 ceolate and acuminate ; fertile ones 1-3 inches long linear- 

 lanceolate, veins copiously anastomosing forming large oblong 

 oblique costal areoles including a free veinlet soriferous at 

 the apex few areoles near the margin, sori densely squaniu- 

 lose.— Linw. Sp. PL p. 1542. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 25. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. p. 144. Metten. Polypod. p. 93. Hook. Gard. 

 Ferns, t. 18. Marginaria, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 187. t. 7-/- 24 



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