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Polypod. Mysurense, Heyne, IVull. Cut. n.2G\). P. lanatuu), 

 Wall. inst. in Herb, nostr. 



Hal). Nepal, Jf'allich. Kumaoii and North-west Himalaya, Slracheij and Win- 

 terlxttloni (alt. 3000 leet), ./. Thomson. Nilgherries, most abuiuiaiit, Sc/i/riid, 

 M-Icur, V'iyht, Heyne, Sir F. Jdam, Beddome, Ilohenacker, n. 907 (Niphob. 

 sticticus. Are.) Assam and Khasya, Hooker fil. and Thomson, alt. 5000-GOOO 

 feet. Boutan, (Iriffilh. Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1226, alt. 2.'500 feet.— Like not a 

 few otliers of tlie Niphoholus group, this is a species, and I believe a very distinct 

 one, more easily recognized by the eye than defined by words. It is remarkable 

 for the bright, deep, ferruginous colour of the whole tomentum, and for the 

 fronds not unfrequenily having angles and even long-acuminated lobes at the 

 margin, while the base tapers down so gradually as to form a wing to the short 

 stipes. A', sliciicns of Kzc. in Hohenacker, is identical with this ; and, possibly, 

 Nijjhod. JI.SSUS of Blume is not really different. 



308. P. (NipholK)lus) Linyiia, S\v. ; caudex very long 

 crce];)ini; rather slender flexuose paleaceous with ferruginous 

 subulate scales, stipites 3-6 inches and more long remote 

 always arising from a short very paleacous branch of the 

 caudex, upper scales longest and spreading, fronds 4-8 

 inches long lanceolate or ovate or oblong obtuse or acumi- 

 nated densely and very compactly stellato- and sometimes 

 subsquamuloso-tomentose at length glabrous above, sori 

 subelevated copious in 4-6 close series between the primary 

 or costular veins and from 9-20 between the secondary 

 veins.— iw. Sijn. Fit. p. 29. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 162. Langsd. 

 et Fisch. Fil. i. /j. 7-/- 5. Metten. Polyp, p. 130. Acrosti- 

 chum, Th. Fl. Jap. p. 330. t. 33. Schk. Fil. p. \.t.\. Nipho- 

 bolus, Spr., Kze. Schk. Fil. Svppl. p. 144. /. 63. 



ILib. Japan, Thunherg ; Nagasaki and as far north as Tsus-Sima. Apparently 

 usually common in China, from various sources : Hongkong, Champion, etc. ; For- 

 mosa, U ilford, Swinhoe ; Loo Choo, C. Wriijht. Malay Islands and Peninsula, often 

 very large, Parish, n. 180. Continent of liulia, extending to Boutan and Eastern 

 Himalaya, Hookerfil.and Thomson (alt. to 5000 feet), Gardner (Ceylon), Griffith, 

 Cuming, n. 127 (Luzon), Wallace (Borneo). — Very variable in size and outline, 

 but an easily-recognized species. 



309. P. (IViphobolus) (Ictertjibile, J. Sm.? vix Don?; cau- 

 dex rather stout densely fibroso-radicant paleaceous especially 

 about the base of the stipites with finely subulate ferruginous 

 scales, stipites 4-6-8 inches long aggregated clothed as is 

 the whole plant with a dense compact mass of whitish or 

 ferruginous stellated tonientum which not unfrequently peels 

 off in dense cottony masses from the upper side of the frond 

 leaving that part quite naked and glabrous, fronds from 4-16 

 inches long %-\\, inch broad carnoso-coriaceous younger 

 ones often ovato-acuminate mature ones lanceolate finely 



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