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Hal). Java {Swartz), Blame, Be Vriese, n. 491, Zollm(jer,n. 229. Isle Saniar, 

 Cuming, n. 323 (P. Samarense, Meiten.). Molucca Islands and New Hebrides, 

 Barclay, Milne. North-east coast of New Holland, Brown, All. Cunningham. 

 Moulraein, Griffith. Ceylon, Gardner. Penang, //'aWc/*.— This is perhaps the 

 longest and narrowest, in proportion to its length, of any of the group ; some of 

 my specimens are 3 feet long. What is the P. Samarense of Mettenius ? p. 123, 

 for which he quotes Cuming, n. 323, which, in my herbarium, is a state of N. 

 acrostic/ioides. N. 333 is Cuming's Diblemina Samarense, J. Sm. (See Polyp, 

 tenuilore, n. 329 in § Phymatodes.) 



301. P, (Niphobolus) /occ/^e?'Mm, Metten. ; " caudex creep- 

 ing clothed with scales which are appressed at the base pa- 

 tent at the apex narrow-lanceolate acuminato-setose entire 

 glabrous ferruginous or at the point of attachment brown 

 paler at the margin, stij)ites 6 lines to 1 inch long floccigerous- 

 tomentose with stellated hairs, fronds coriaceous or carnoso- 

 coriaceous wrinkled when dry at first thickly clothed on both 

 sides with stellated hairs (in radios divaricato-flexuosos stup- 

 peos productis) at length glabrous above glossy beneath laxly 

 tomentose 2 inches to 1^ foot long 2\-5 lines wide linear 

 gradually attenuated at the base obtuse, veins in the moist- 

 ened frond translucent, areoles including two free veinlets, 

 sori at the costa 2-4-seriate slightly impressed not protu- 

 berant at the back at length confluent" [Metten. Polyp, p. 

 1 29). — Under this species Mettenius brings var. a, latifolium ; 

 fronds 5 lines wide \\ foot long. Niphobolus flocciger, Bl. 

 Fil. Jav. p.G\.t. 26. Cyclophorus, Pr., and N. varius, /. /Sm., 

 ex parte; and var. /3, loriforme ; fronds 2-2i lines wide 2 

 inches to 1 foot long. N. flocciger, yS [not /3 of Blume?). N. 

 loriformis, Kze. Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 120, and Antrophyum nipho- 

 boloides, Kze. Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 209. 



Hab. o. Java, Blume. "Luzon, Cuming, n. 8S, in part." — Var. /3. Java, "Zol- 

 linger, n. 2022, 2022 a, 2023, 3177."— Some of my specimens of P. acrosti- 

 choides sufficiently accord with Blume's figure. 



302. P. (Niphobolus) Africanum, Metten. ; caudex creep- 

 ing densely ferrugineo-paleaceous with rather large ovate 

 acuminated fringed scales, stipites remote h an inch to 2 

 inches long, fronds coriaceous 4 inches to a foot long ^-H 

 inch wide lanceolate bluntly acuminate nearly glabrous wlien 

 mature densely white and stellato-tomentose beneath the 

 base gradually attenuated into the short stipes; sterile ones 

 small subspathulatc ; fertile ones often suddenly acuminated 

 and soriferous at tliat portion, sori numerous small partially 

 sunk in the tomentum irregularly but closely arranged 

 (transverse costular areoles with included anastomosing veins 



