52 POLYPODIUM, § NIPHOBOLUS. 



313. P. (Niphobolus) splendens, Hook.; caudex ? stipes 

 almost none, fronds U-3 feet long 3 inches wide oblongo- 

 lanceolate suddenly and subcuspidately acuminated long-at- 

 tenuated below to the nearly sessile base aljove sparsely stel- 

 latedly albo-tomentose mixed with cobwebby hairs, beneath 

 clothed with similar tomentum and hairs or fine scales of a 

 rich-brown colour, costa stout prominent below, costules very 

 evident but scarcely elevated, sori small numerous crowded 

 irregularly neither extending in my fertile specimen to the 

 apex nor to the margin. — Niphobolus, J. Sm.in Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. iii. p. 596 {name only). Apalopblebia, Pr. Epim. p. 138. 



Hab. Isle of Samar, Philippine, Cuming, n. 33t. — This is unnoticed by Met- 

 tenius, but is really a fine and remarkable si)ecies, from the size and from the 

 nature and colouring of the tomentum. It is perhaps most ; Hied to P. costatum, 

 but, I think, very different. Presl was ignorant of the fructification. 



314. p. (Niphobolus) Penangianum, Hook. ; caudex ?, stipes 

 scarcely any, fronds submembranaceous 1^ foot and more 

 long 2| inch wdde oblanceolate finely acuminate the base 

 much and gradually attenuated sessile the margin irregularly 

 sinuated glabrous above (at least in maturity) beneath thinly 

 clothed with fuscous stellated hairs, venation internal but 

 manifest when viewed between the eye and the light, costules 

 not elevated, areoles 16-18 between the costa and the mar- 

 gin quite those of Campyloneurum including 4 free soriferous 

 veinlets, sori prominent (not sunk) forming a broad mass in 

 the disk of the upper half of the frond arranged with great 

 regularitv in four longitudinal series parallel with the costules 

 and within each areole are transverse lines each of four sori, 

 capsules mixed with long-stipitate peltate stellated scales. 

 Hook. Ic. PL t. 203. Gen. Fil. t. 83. Polycarpium, Pr. 



Hab. Penang, Larlij Dalhousie. Moulmeine ?, P«ns/« (small and imperfect). 

 — Remarkable for the comparatively membranaceous fronds, the thin sparse coat- 

 ing of brown, stellated pubescence of the under side, and the beautifully sym- 

 metrical arrangement of the sori in the disk of the superior half of the frond, 

 not extending to the margins. 



315. P. (Niphobolus) subfurfuraceum, Hook.; caudex 

 short branched creeping the younger branches paleaceous 

 with ferruginous subulate scales, stipites subaggregated 

 4-5 inches long, fronds 24-30 inches long 4-5 inches wide 

 broad-lanceolate or oblanceolate sharply acuminated below 

 gradually and much attenuated upon the stipes glabrous 

 above minutely stellato-tomentose beneath, the tomentum 

 thin firm and close so as to appear subfurfuraceous or com- 



