44 POLYPODIIJM, § NIPHOBOLUS. 



27 and 224. Willd. Sp. PL p. 124. Schk. Fil. p. 187- t. 80. 

 Niphobolus, Spr. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 20. Niphopsis, J. 

 Sm. Pleopeltis, Pr., and P. macrosora, Pr. Polyp, spheero- 

 cephalum, JFuU. Cat. n. 272. Metten. Polyp. p. 122. Nipho- 

 bolus, Hook, and Grev.Ic. Fil. t. 94. N. macrocarpus. Hook, 

 and Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy.p.'J^. t. 18. 



Hab. India: Tranquebar, Roe t tier ; Assam, Jenkins; Siiicapore, Wallich ; 

 Malacca, Griffith, Cuming, n. 2)12 ; Penang, Lorraine; Borneo, Wallace, Thos. 

 Lobb. Pitcairne's and Coral Islands and Tahiti, Cuming, n. 139 i, Mat hews, n. 13, 

 Lag and Collie, Barclag. North-east Australia, Brisbane river. — A weli-marked 

 species. 



299. P. (Niphobolus) tricuspe, Sw. ; caudex stout creeping 

 paleaceous with lanceolato-subulate scales, stipites aggregated 

 rather stout 6-8 inches long, fronds H-3 inches long H-4 

 inches broad at the base very thick carnoso-coriaceous densely 

 stellato-tomentose on both sides at length subglabrous above 

 triangular-cordate or hastato-3-lobed, middle lobe obtusely 

 acuminate entire lateral ones with a deflexed lobe at the base, 

 sori sunk in the tomentum in four parallel series between the 

 costules. — Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 30. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 65. Acro- 

 stichum hastatum, Thwib. FLJap. p. 331. t. 34. Niphobolus 

 hastatus, Kze. in Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 565 [not Polyp, hastatum, 

 Thunb. and Metten.). Polycampium hastatum, Pr. Epimel. 

 Bot. p. 197. 



Hab. Japan: Fusi and Falcon, Thunberg ; Kanagawa, Oldham; Hakodadi 

 (Hance) ; south part of Corea, Dr. Clarke. Port Hamilton, an island on the 

 coast of Corea, alt. 700 feet, Wllfurd. 



300. P. (Niphobolus) acrostichoides, Sw. ; caudex creeping 

 branched younger portions squarrose with rather large bright 

 ferruginous lanceolato-subulate scales, stipites 1-3 inches 

 long, fi'ond hard-coriaceous 1-3 feet and more long i-1 inch 

 wide glabrous above beneath whitish or tawny stellato-to- 

 mentose (tomentum very deciduous) elongato-lanceolate or 

 linear obtuse; sterile fronds generally the broadest, "areoles 

 with 6-7 free veinlets," sori rather small prominent very 

 compact generally occupying the upper part of the frond 

 arranged in 6-8 oblique very close series between the cos- 

 tules. — Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 29 and 225. An Forst. Prodr. 434 ? 

 Metten. Polyp, p. 128. Br. Prodr. p. 146. Cyclophorus, 

 Pr. Niphobolus puberulus, Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 57- t. 23 [excel- 

 lent). Cyclophorus glaber, Desv. [not P. Samarense, Metten. 

 Polyp. p. 125). Gyrosorium, Pr. Polyp, furfuraceum, ?Fg//. 

 Cat. n. 278. 



